The ICODR Podcast

Episode 14: Daniel Rainey, ODR Pioneer and Principal in Holistic Solutions, Inc.

In this episode, Ian interviews ODR Pioneer Daniel Rainey, a principal in Holistic Solutions, Inc. (HSI ), and an adjunct faculty member in graduate dispute resolution programs and law schools.
Daniel is currently a Fellow of the National Center for Technology and Dispute Resolution, a member of the Board of Directors for the InternetBar.Org, and a founding member and founding Board Member, and Chair of the Governance Committee of the International Council for Online Dispute Resolution (ICODR).  He is the Co-Chair of Working Group 3 of the ODR Task Force for the American Bar Association Section of Dispute Resolution, and  Co-Chair of the International Mediation Institute’s Online Mediator Competency Task Force.  He is an immediate past member of the Supreme Court of Virginia’s Access to Justice Commission, Self-Represented Litigants Committee.  He was recently added as a participant observer to the Uniform Law Commission’s Study Committee on the Singapore Convention.
He was one of the instructors for the first university ODR course (at the University of Massachusetts – Amherst), and he (with Colin Rule) designed and taught the first ODR course required in a graduate dispute resolution program (at Creighton University).  He has developed graduate level ODR courses for several universities, in addition to skills-based ODR training for dispute resolution centers and professional associations.  As a consultant, he has worked with clients in the the development of ODR resources, intercultural negotiation skills, Ombudsman programs, and organizational conflict engagement programs in the public, private, and non-profit sectors.
He is one of the Editors-in-Chief of the International Journal of Online Dispute Resolution. He is also an author/editor of the award-winning book, Online Dispute Resolution Theory and Practice (2nd edition published in 2021), and numerous other book chapters and articles about ODR and ADR.
In September, 2017, he retired as the Chief of Staff for the National Mediation Board, and in October, 2017, at the Association for Conflict Resolution annual conference, he received the Mary Parker Follett Award for innovation in dispute resolution.
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Episode 13: Professor Dorcas Quek Anderson from the Singapore Management University School of Law

In this episode of the ICODR podcast, Ian interviews Dorcas Quek Anderson, Assistant Professor in Singapore Management University’s School of Law.
Dorcas has more than a decade of experience as a practising mediator and in dispute research.  Prior to joining academia in 2016, Dorcas was a District Judge in the State Courts for almost seven years, where she conducted mediation and early neutral evaluation for hundreds of civil and criminal cases, contributed to the courts’ mediation policies as well as published extensively concerning dispute resolution. She was earlier an Assistant Registrar in the Supreme Court and concurrently Assistant Director of the Singapore Mediation Centre (SMC). Dorcas is currently an Assistant Professor of Law in the Singapore Management University’s Yong Pung How School of Law and will, from next year, be an Associate Professor.
 
Dorcas has been accredited by the International Mediation Institute and Singapore International Mediation Institute. She is a mediator with Singapore International Mediation Centre (SIMC), SMC, Asian Development Bank and the Office of the Ombudsman for UN Funds and Programmes. She is also a Fellow of the National Center for Dispute Resolution and Technology. Dorcas has conducted negotiation and mediation training in SMU, Attorney-General’s Chambers, Singapore, SIMC and SMC.  
 
Dorcas’ research focuses broadly on the interaction between dispute resolution and the substantive and procedural aspects of justice. She has also explored the influence of culture on the mediation process. Her dispute resolution research has been published in leading journals including Harvard Negotiation Law Review, Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution, Civil Justice Quarterly and Australasian Dispute Resolution Journal.
 
For a forthcoming major piece of research, Dorcas and her research collaborator have designed an empirical study to examine the impact of four communication modes, specifically: video-conferencing, audio call, text messaging and face-to-face interaction on achieving negotiation outcomes.
https://ssrn.com/author=2575794
https://www.smu.edu.sg/faculty/profile/144806/QUEK-Anderson%2C-Dorcas

Episode 12: David Allen Larson, Professor of Law at the Mitchell Hamline School of Law

In this episode of the ICODR podcast, Ian interviews David Allen Larson, Professor of Law at the Mitchell Hamline School of Law and Senior Fellow at the Dispute Resolution Institute. He has been involved with online dispute resolution (ODR) since 1999 and is the System Designer helping create an ODR platform for the New York State Unified Court System. David is the John H. Faricy Jr. Chair for Empirical Studies, and a Fellow for the National Center for Technology and Dispute Resolution and the American Bar Foundation. He has 60 legal publications and has made more than 170 professional presentations in ten different countries. He is Chair of the American Bar Association Section of Dispute Resolution, Co-Chair of the Section’s ODR Standards Task Force, and was a member of the ABA E-Commerce and ADR Task Force. He teaches Arbitration Law, Arbitration Skills, Disability Law, Employment Law, Employment Discrimination Law, Online Dispute Resolution (ODR) for the 21st Century, Labor Law, and Torts.
Professor Larson worked at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Office of General Counsel, Appellate Division in Washington, D.C. and, on behalf of that Office, participated in drafting the Regulations and Interpretive Guidance for the Americans with Disabilities Act. He was founder and Editor-in-Chief of the “Journal of Alternative Dispute Resolution in Employment” (CCH Inc.), an arbitrator for the Omaha Tribe and other disputes, and a Hearing Examiner for the Nebraska Equal Opportunity Commission. He worked with the International Legal Resource Center (a partnership between the ABA Section of International Law and the United Nations Development Programme) and the ABA Central and East European Law Initiative (CEELI). David has been a tenured professor at four different universities and colleges and practiced with a litigation law firm.
David on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidallenlarson/

Episode 11: Graham Ross, Head of International Marketing at Smartsettle Resolutions Inc.

In this episode of the ICODR podcast, Ian interviews Graham Ross, Head of International Marketing at Smartsettle Resolutions Inc.  Graham is a UK lawyer and mediator with over 20 years of experience in IT and the law. Graham is the author of legal application software (accounts and time recording) and the founder of LAWTEL, the popular web-based legal information update service.
Graham co-founded the first ODR service in the UK, WeCanSettle, and designed the blind bidding software at the heart of the system. Graham subsequently founded TheMediationRoom.com, for whom he designed their online mediation platform. Graham speaks regularly at international conferences on the impact of the law on the Internet and e-commerce and on the application of technology to ADR. Graham was host of the 5th International Conference on Online Dispute Resolution held in Liverpool, UK, in 2007. Graham was a member of the Working Party of the European Committee on Standardisation (CEN) which developid a taxonomy for Online Dispute Resolution and currently is a team member of the EMCOD project (www.emcod.net) which is creating a facility for the European Union for the measurement of justice through ODR . Graham is also a leading trainer in ODR having created the accredited distance training course in ODR provided by TheMediationRoom to mediators in over 15 countries. Graham has undertaken ODR pilot projects with a number of organisations including the UK Ministry of Justice, Paypal, the US National Institutes of Health, the US National Mediation Board and the Law Council of Australia.

Episode 10: Chittu Nagarajan, Founder and CEO, CREKODR and co-founder of odr.com

In this episode of the ICODR podcast, Ian interviews Chittu Nagarajan, Founder and CEO of CREKODR, as well as co-founder of odr.com. Chittu co-created Modria.com and served as Managing Director of Modria India.  She also founded ODRworld and ODRindia, the first Online Dispute Resolution Service Provider in India in 2004. She served as Head of the eBay and Pay Pal Community Court initiative.
Chittu is a Fellow of the National Centre for Technology and Dispute Resolution, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, U.S.A and served as the Conference Chair for the 10th International Online Dispute Resolution Working Forum, held from February 7-9, 2011 in Chennai, India. She also is a founding board member of the International Council for Online Dispute Resolution.
Chittu was a speaker at the International Online Dispute Resolution Forum in December 2007, Hong Kong; the United Nations Online Dispute Resolution Forum in June 2008, Victoria, Canada; the International Online Dispute Resolution Forum in June 2009, Haifa, Israel; the International symposium on Online Dispute Resolution, September 2009, Barcelona, Spain and the International Online Dispute Resolution Forum in June 2010, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Chittu was a speaker at the Micro-finance course conducted by the International Development Law Organization (IDLO) and is a Regular Evaluator at the International Competitions for Online Dispute Resolution.
 
The 2023 ODR Forum: https://odr2023.org
Agami - the access to justice agency promoting ODR and hosting the Forum: https://agami.in [Note not Agaami, as mentioned in the call]
Agami’s ODR pages: https://agami.in/odr/ 
Indian Government Policy on ODR: https://www.niti.gov.in/sites/default/files/2021-11/odr-report-29-11-2021.pdf

Episode 9: Professor Pablo Cortes, University of Leicester

In this episode of the ICODR podcast, Ian interviews Professor Pablo Cortes of Leicester University Law School.  Pablo holds a chair in Civil Justice at Leicester Law School where he teaches and conducts research in the field of dispute resolution civil procedure and consumer law. He has been invited to speak at international conferences and expert meetings in over 20 different countries including by the UN Commission for International Trade Law the European Commission and the European Parliament. He acts regularly as an independent adjudicator or arbitrator for a variety of civil disputes but mainly aviation water telecommunications cases. He has also worked as a consultant for a number of private and public organiations in the areas of dispute resolution and consumer law.
He is a fellow of the National Centre for Technology and Dispute Resolutions (University of Massachusetts), is a founding member of the International Council for Online Dispute Resolution (ICODR) and in 2012 he was a Gould Research Fellow at Stanford University. He is also the co-editor of the journal of Mediation - Theory and Practice and the external examiner for the Alternative Dispute Resolution modules at University College London. 
More info: Pablo Cortes | People | University of Leicester

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/