Working Papers

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• Dr. Alberto Elisavetsky, CEO- PDVSA División Eventos Virtuales(www.eventosvirtuales.com.ar), ADR Professor Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero.Buenos Aires Argentina, "New Information and Communication Technologies applied to Resolving Conflict - A Latin American Perspective" (in Spanish)
• Praveen Dalal, Arbitrator, Consultant and Advocate, Supreme Court of India, "Online Dispute Resolution in India,"
• Praveen Dalal, "The Culture of ADR in India."
• Rafal Morek, Assistant Professor at the University of Warsaw, "Online Arbitration: Admissibility within the current legal framework"
• Rafal Morek, Assistant Professor at the University of Warsaw, "Regulation of Online Dispute Resolution: Between Law and Technology"
• Stephanie H. Bol, scholar of the Computer/Law Institute in Amsterdam, DRAFT of "An analysis of the role of different players in e-mediation: the (legal) implications."
• Praveen Dalal, arbitrator, consultant, advocate with Delhi High Court, "The Culture of ADR in India,"
• Praveen Dalal, arbitrator, consultant, advocate with Delhi High Court, "Online Dispute Resolution in India"
• Robert K. Peddycord, DSI Technology Escrow Services, "The Technology Trade " - with the recent explosion of the Web, it will not be surprising to see a significant increase in the number of lawsuits filed regarding Web site intellectual property rights.
• 8/13/04 - Colm Brannigan's "Beyond E-Commerce: Expanding the Potential of ODR" from Interaction, March 2004 (Click for Author’s Note)
• Colm Brannigan's "The UDRP: How Do You Spell Success" from (2004) 5(1) Digital Technology Law Journal
• Rossa McMahon, "The Fourth Party Today" (zip version)
• Jenny Geary and Linda Mckay-Panos "Virtual Tutoring and Student Support Systems" (here is the associated PowerPoint presentation) Trident Foundation Mediation Counselling and Support Foundation, Alberta, Canada.
• Ethan Katsh, "Can Avatars Lead Us to a New Model of Dispute Resolution"
• Alan Gaitenby, DRAFT of "Online Dispute Resolution" chapter in Wiley, & Sons, Inc. The Internet Encyclopedia, 2004

As They Appeared in the ODR Monthly in 2003:

• Jenny Geary and Linda McKay Panos, "Online Counselling: Student Support to Women Offenders" Trident Foundation Mediation Counselling and Support Foundation, Alberta, Canada.
• Stephanie Bol and Arno Lodder article, "Towards an online negotiation environment: legal principles, technical requirements and the need for close cooperation"
• "Online Narrative Mediation. A Potential New Service Approach" - Jennifer Geary PhD (cand), MDE, MEd (FET), MSW, MA (soc pol), BSW

• "A Simple Scheme to Structure and Process the Information of Parties in Online Forms of ADR" - Gerard A.W. Vreeswijk, Department of Computer Science, Utrecht University, Netherlands

• "Discourse Support Design Patterns," Malgorzata Mochol, Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems, ECCO Center for Collaborative and Mobile eGovernment. Discourse support systems describe such software as developed for the support of structured, more purposeful dialogues regarding drafting, planning, contract, agreement and other subjects presented for a discussion. Such systems are gaining ever greater relevance and are vital in the research of artificial intelligence and knowledge management. Furthermore, they are of interest to fields such as e-commerce and e-democracy.

• An Essay on the Role of Government for ODR: Theoretical considerations about the future of ODR, Thomas Schultz, University of Geneva.

• "The role of principles of justice in building mediation decision support systems," John Zeleznikow, Faculty of Law, University of Edinburgh, Old College, South Bridge, Edinburgh, EH8 9YL, Scotland, UK. Emilia Bellucci, Department of Computer Science, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria Australia.

• Alternative Dispute Resolution in the European Union, Julia Hörnle - Research Fellow in E-commerce Law, IT Law Unit, CCLS, Queen Mary College, University of London - Although Online Dispute Resolution introduces new methods for conflict management, many of the legal and policy issues are similar to those discussed in the context of ADR. In this context it is important to remember that ADR, and in particular court annexed ADR, is not as common in the EU that it is in the US. Generally speaking, the reason for this, at least in Continental Europe, is that the inquisitorial court system is cheaper that the adversarial, common law system. Also the discussion in the EU is focusing heavily on due process and procedural issues.

• Who Wants Online ADR? Report of a Needs Assessment in Victoria, Australia Melissa Conley Tyler, The International Conflict Resolution Centre, Department of Psychology, The University of Melbourne

• Research into Online Alternative Dispute Resolution, Needs Assessment - prepared for the Department of Justice, Victoria (23 May 2003) by Melissa Conley Tyler, Di Bretherton, Brock Bastian of The International Conflict Resolution Centre, Department of Psychology, The University of Melbourne.