Cyberweek 2020 is coming November 2-6, 2020! This will be our 22nd Cyberweek, and we’re confident it is going to be the best Cyberweek ever.

We will have platform demos, interviews, webinars, simulations, discussion forums, and time to just hang out and bond with your fellow attendees in a social hour.

Visit the Cyberweek homepage at http://odr.info/cyberweek2020

Click here or on the image below to review the full agenda.

(Note: the agenda will have embedded youtube links so you can replay any sessions you missed)

Fill out the form here to register for the week long online mediation simulation (we’re going to be doing a family simulation)

Thank you to Cyberweek 2020 Supporters! (Click for the full list)

A group of mediators has established a non-affiliated website to promote a pledge by mediators to do all they can to ensure that their mediation practices are as carbon-neutral as possible.

The World Mediators Alliance on Climate Change (WOMACC) Green Pledge can be adopted by any individual mediator. They are also asking prominent mediation bodies to support and promote the Pledge and encourage their members to sign up to it.

The Pledge can be found here.

The website at that link presents the pledge for individual mediators to consider signing, though they are looking for organizational supporters and sponsors as well. They’ve also asked for help in getting wider publicity through personal networks and websites, so please share the link on your social accounts as well if you’d like to help.

Direct link here: https://womacc.org/take-the-green-pledge/

The COVID-19 pandemic  saw courts that are normally resistant to change trying to quickly adapt to physical closure of buildings.  As Professor Elizabeth Thornburg writes in her new article Observing Online Courts: Lessons from the Pandemic, “[o]ur normally hidebound courts are moving online with surprising speed.” This development provided an opportunity for Professor Thornburg and her students to spend several months observing a variety of court processes. For those interested in the recent rapid institutional adaptation of technology, this is an important foundational work.