The ICODR Podcast

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.
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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.