ODR | Daniel Rainey

Community Mediation ODR Course

On Monday, July 16, NVMS will offer its first online course – and it’s appropriate that the first online course will be Online Dispute Resolution. Basically, the NVMS course will be a four week version of the seven week course that I offer through Creighton’s Werner Institute, and a much cut down version of the 40 hour course that I offer through SMU’s Dispute Resolution program. Many of the comments at the ODR Forum in Prague were wrapped around the assertion that this year seems to be a watershed moment for ODR, in many venues and for many users who in the past have not been involved in the use of technology – the success of the NVMS course (at least in terms of numbers enrolled) may be a further demonstration of ODR’s coming of age.

Jul 2012

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Prague ODR Forum Next Week

The ODR Forum is coming up next week in Prague, and it appears that there will be a lot of e-commerce activity surrounding the Forum this year. Last Friday (June 15) the U.S. State Department held a follow on meeting to discuss the developments at the recent New York meeting of the UNCITRAL ODR Working Group, and it appears that at least one of the U.S. government participants from those meetings will be in Prague. The level of activity is invigorating, with legislation or project development at five levels: discrete commercial sites (e.g., eBay), individual countries (e.g., Spain and Italy), groups of countries operating within established political structures (e.g., the European Union), groups of countries operating in concert outside of an over-riding political structure (e.g., the Latin American initiative coming from Buenos Aires), and the UNCITRAL project driven on the Track I level by the UN. Also at the Forum will be the most recent attempt to bridge the divide between e-commerce and the rest of the ADR world – Modria.com.

Jun 2012

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New Book | Online Dispute Resolution: Theory and Practice

I find myself wanting to post comments about a lot of things that I can’t comment on because of my current position with the NMB, but I think I’m safe in saying that there’s a new book out that I think is really great. Of course, I could be biased because I’m one of the editors, but you can judge that for yourself. The book is a 600 page compendium of the current state of ODR around the world, with chapters written by an international cross section of dispute resolution professionals who have been working in the ODR arena for the past decade and more. It is available in all the usual channels, including Amazon.com.