The ICODR Podcast
The ICODR Podcast, from the International Council for Online Dispute Resolution (icodr.org), covers the rapidly growing field of online dispute resolution. Hosted by Ian Macduff, the podcast interviews ODR experts from around the world to discuss the latest developments in the field, with an eye to ethics, culture, security, and impartiality.
Episodes
Episodes
Sunday Nov 06, 2022
Sunday Nov 06, 2022
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.
Friday Oct 14, 2022
Friday Oct 14, 2022
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
Thursday Sep 15, 2022
Episode 9: Professor Pablo Cortes, University of Leicester
Thursday Sep 15, 2022
Thursday Sep 15, 2022
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
Thursday Sep 01, 2022
Thursday Sep 01, 2022
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
Thursday Aug 18, 2022
Episode 7: Dr. Alberto Elisavetsky, Founder of ODRLatinoAmerica.com
Thursday Aug 18, 2022
Thursday Aug 18, 2022
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/
Thursday Jul 28, 2022
Episode 6: Morenike Obi-Farinde, Founder of ODRAfrica.com
Thursday Jul 28, 2022
Thursday Jul 28, 2022
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
Wednesday Jul 20, 2022
Wednesday Jul 20, 2022
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
Tuesday Jul 12, 2022
Episode 4: Colin Rule, CEO of odr.com
Tuesday Jul 12, 2022
Tuesday Jul 12, 2022
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.
About ICODR
ICODR is an international nonprofit, incorporated in the United States, that drives the development, convergence, and adoption of open standards for the global effort to resolve disputes and conflicts using information and communications technology.
ICODR promotes worldwide standards for all forms of technology-assisted dispute resolution, including diagnosis, negotiation, mediation, arbitration and courts. ICODR’s open standards offer the potential to lower cost, stimulate innovation, protect consumers and citizens, and protect the right of free access to justice.