The ICODR Podcast

Episode 8: Professor Amy Schmitz, the John Deaver Drinko-Baker & Hostetler Chair in Law at the Ohio State University Moritz College of Law

In this episode of the ICODR podcast, Ian interviews Professor Amy Schmitz, the John Deaver Drinko-Baker & Hostetler Chair in Law at the Ohio State University Moritz College of Law. From 2016-2021 Professor Schmitz was the Elwood L. Thomas Missouri Endowed Professor of Law at the University of Missouri School of Law and the Center for Dispute Resolution. Previously she was a Professor at the University of Colorado School of Law for over 16 years. Prior to teaching, Professor Schmitz practiced law with large law firms in Seattle and Minneapolis and served as a law clerk for the U. S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit. Professor Schmitz teaches courses in Contracts, Lawyering, Online Dispute Resolution (ODR), AI, Data Analytics and the Law, Arbitration, International Arbitration, and Consumer Law. She has been heavily involved in ODR teaching and research for a long time and is a Fellow of the National Center for Technology and Dispute Resolution, as well as the Co-Chair of the ABA Technology Committee of the Dispute Resolution Section and the ODR Task Force. She served for many years on the Association of American Law Schools Executive Committee on Commercial and Consumer Law, was an External Scientific Fellow of the Max Planck Institute Luxembourg, is named a Fulbright Specialist in arbitration and ODR, and is a researcher with the ACT Project exploring AI and dispute resolution. Professor Schmitz also hosts The Arbitration Conversation, a highly regarded podcast that has reached over 100 episodes. She also is a researcher with the ACT Project exploring AI and dispute resolution at the Cyberjustice Lab in Montreal. She has published over 60 articles in law journals and books, is a co-author of the leading casebook, Resolving Disputes: Theory, Practice and Law (Aspen/Wolters Kluwer 2021), the new book with Stipanowich, Arbitration: Theory, Practice and Law (Forthcoming Aspen/Wolters Kluwer 2022) and a book with C. Rule, The New Handshake: Online Dispute Resolution and the Future of Consumer Protection. Amy's article "Intelligent Legal Tech to Empower Self-Represented Litigants" (referenced in the episode) is available at:https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4048335

Episode 7: Dr. Alberto Elisavetsky, Founder of ODRLatinoAmerica.com

In this episode of the ICODR podcast, Ian interviews Dr. Alberto Elisavetsky, the Founder and Director of ODRLatinoAmerica.com.  Alberto is also Founder of the Social Network Online Dispute Resolution Latin-American, the Director of Social Conflict Observatory and Postgraduate Online Dispute Resolution Program in Spanish the National University of Tres de Febrero Buenos Aires Argentina, the Chairman of the e-MARC Alternative Dispute Resolution Worldwide Online Spanish Congress, the scientific committee member of the Master in Conflict Resolution University Degli StudiDi Padova Italy, the Co-Director of the School mediation program at the University of Las Palmas of the Gran Canaria Spain, the Founder and CEO of Simediar–an online mediation simulation project, and the Cyberweek coordinator of the Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese chapters, Spanish Editor Mediate.com & weblog Electronic Dispute Resolution. Links mentioned in the episode: ODR LATINOAMERICA www.odrlatinoamerica.com  ODR EXPO TECH VIRTUAL CONGRESS https://odrexpo.tech/ GLOBAL REGISTRY OF CYBER-MEDIATORS http://registrodecibermediadores.com/ 

Episode 6: Morenike Obi-Farinde, Founder of ODRAfrica.com

In this episode of the ICODR podcast, Ian interviews Morenike Obi-Farinde, Founder of ODRAfrica.com and managing partner of the law firm of ADIGUN OGUNSEITAN & CO. in Lagos, Nigeria. She is actively involved in corporate and commercial litigation and Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) Processes with particular emphasis on Mediation and Arbitration. Morenike is a Fellow of the National Center for Technology and Dispute Resolution (NCTDR) and Board Member, The International Council for Online Dispute Resolution (ICODR) www.odrafrica.com

Episode 5: Petros Zourdoumis, General Director of the ADR Point - Center for Alternative Dispute Resolution

In this episode of the ICODR podcast, Ian interviews Petros Zourdoumis, an experienced dispute resolution specialist and deal facilitator specializing mainly in the private business and financial sector. He is a practicing negotiator and a mediator accredited by the Greek Ministry of Justice and highly acknowledged international mediation training providers in Europe and the U.S.A. on Civil, Commercial and Workplace Mediation as well as International Mediation and Cross-border disputes. He is the General Director of ADR point-Center for Alternative Dispute Resolution, the largest private national entity notified to the European Commission & officially registered to the European ODR platform. He is the founder of ODReurope, the only entity in Greece and one of the few entities in Europe working with practitioners, corporations, state bodies & professionals towards implementing technological solutions in every day practice of resolving disputes and he is leading several projects involving the use of IT in dispute resolution. He participates actively as a delegate, speaker and member in world conferences and national and international working groups for online dispute resolution & e-justice. www.adr4all.com www.adrpoint.com

Episode 4: Colin Rule, CEO of odr.com

In this episode of the ICODR podcast, Ian interviews Colin Rule, CEO of mediate.com, arbitrate.com, and odr.com. In 2011 Colin co-founded Modria, an ODR provider based in Silicon Valley, which was acquired by Tyler Technologies in 2017. From 2017 to 2020 Colin served as Vice President of ODR at Tyler. From 2003 to 2011 Colin was Director of Online Dispute Resolution for eBay and PayPal. Colin co-founded Online Resolution, one of the first ODR providers, in 1999 and served as its CEO and President. He is the author of Online Dispute Resolution for Business, published by Jossey-Bass in September 2002, and co-author (with Amy Schmitz) of The New Handshake: Online Dispute Resolution and the Future of Consumer Protection.

Episode 3: Prof. Leah Wing

In this episode of the ICODR podcast, Ian interviews Professor Leah Wing, the Director of the National Center for Technology and Dispute Resolution (NCTDR) as well as President of the International Council for Online Dispute Resolution (ICODR). Leah heads the Ethical Principles for Online Dispute Resolution initiative of NCTDR and serves on the ABA Online Dispute Resolution (ODR) Standards Taskforce and the ABA Technology Committee. Leah has taught dispute resolution since 1993 and served as a researcher on early experiments in online dispute resolution. Leah is on the editorial boards of the International Journal of Online Dispute Resolution and of Conflict Resolution Quarterly, served two terms on the Association of Conflict Resolution Board of Directors, and is on the advisory board of ODREurope. Leah is the founding director of the Social Justice Mediation Institute.

Episode 2: Prof. Ethan Katsh

In this episode of the ICODR podcast, Ian interviews Professor Ethan Katsh, the founder of the field of online dispute resolution. Along with Janet Rifkin, he conducted the eBay Pilot Project in 1999 that led to eBay’s current system that handles over sixty million disputes each year. With Professor Rifkin, he wrote Online Dispute Resolution: Resolving Conflicts in Cyberspace (2001), the first book about ODR. Since then, he has published numerous articles about ODR and co-edited Online Dispute Resolution: Theory and Practice (2nd ed., 2021). The frequently mentioned metaphor of technology as a “Fourth Party” was first proposed in Katsh and Rifkin’s Online Dispute Resolution (2001).

Episode 1: Welcome to the ICODR podcast

Welcome to the ICODR Podcast!  This short introduction from Ian explains the design and focus of the podcast, along with anticipated guests and topics.