ODR 2015 Agenda

ODR 2015
Access, Efficiency & Quality: Modern Challenges for the Bench, Bar & Public

June 3-5, 2015

JUNE 3, 2015

JAMS
620 8th Avenue
New York, New York

Keynote address: 

Esther Dyson, Chairman, EDventure Holdings (investor in Youstice and Modria)

JUNE 4, 2015

Dean David Yassky, Pace Law School

Professor Ethan Katsh, Founder, National Center for Technology and Dispute Resolution, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Considering ODR in the Dispute Resolution Paradigm and Its Impact on Lawyers

Professor Richard Susskind
Author of Tomorrow’s Lawyers, IT Adviser to the Lord Chief Justice

10:00-11:15am

What does it mean to Incorporate ODR into Court Practice and Procedure: A Comparative Approach

Moderator, Dan Weitz, Statewide Alternative Dispute Resolution Coordinator, New York Office of Court Administration

Bettina “Betsy” Plevan, Partner, Proskauer Rose LLP
     New York Chief Judge’s Task Force on Access to Justice
Graham Ross, Lawyer and Mediator (PowerPoint Presentation)
     United Kingdom - Member Civil Justice Council's ODR Advisory Group
Jeff Aresty, President, Internet Bar Organization
     Hacking for Justice in Texas
Prof. Alberto Elisavetsky, Director, Online Dispute Resolution Latinoamerica
     ODR & the Judiciary in Latin America
 

Valentin Callipel, Cyberjustice Laboratory of the Université de Montréal
     Towards Efficient Public ODR–Could There Really Be Such a Thing?

Colin Rule, COO, Modria (PowerPoint Presentation)
Re-designing Processes for the Future

Award presented to winner of International Competition in Online Dispute Resolution (ICODR), with Katrina Nobles, Cornell University
 

1:45-2:45pm

Room 1: How has the ODR Regulation Impacted the European Dispute Resolution Landscape?

          Moderator, Michael Dennis, Senior Attorney Advisor, U.S. Department
          of State

          Professor Pablo Cortes, University of Leister
               What does the EU ADR/ODR Directive Require?

          Professor Stefaan Voet, Ghent University
               The EU ADR/ODR Directive in Practice

          Professor Yoshihisa Hayakawa, Rikkyo University, Japan
               Impact of EU ADR/ODR Directive on Regional and International ODR Initiatives

Room 2: The State of International ODR

          Ije Ononogbu, International Dispute Resolution Solicitor (Nigeria/UK)
               Nigeria leading the ODR usage on the Africa continent

          Professor Anyu Lee, University of International Business and Economy,
          China

          Professor Michael Fang, Nanchang University School of Law, China

3:00-4:00pm

Convergence Between ADR and ODR: do the Ethics Coalesce?

Moderator, Professor Angie Raymond, Kelley School of Business, Indiana University

Professor Nancy Welsh, Penn State Dickinson School of Law

Professor Dan Rainey, Southern Methodist University and Chief of Staff, National Mediation Board

Professor Amy Schmitz, University of Colorado School of Law

4:00-5:00pm

Conceptualizing Process Re-Design. What’s Involved?

Moderator, Professor Jan Martinez, Stanford Law School
(PowerPoint Presentation)

Dr. Jin Ho Verdonschot, Justice Technology Architect, Hiil Innovating Justice

Chittu Nagarajan, co-Founder, Modria

JUNE 5, 2015

8:30-9:00am

9:00-9:15am
Vikki Rogers, Director, Institute of International Commercial Law

9:45-10:45am
 
B2B Cross-Border Dispute Resolution: Practical Considerations

Moderator, Professor Benjamin G. Davis, University of Toledo

Mirèze Philippe, Special Counsel, Secretariat of the International Chamber of Commerce
     An Institutional Perspective

Sherman Kahn, Partner, Mauriel Kapouytian Woods LLP
     An Arbitrator’s Perspective

Paul Cohen, Partner, Perkins Coie
     A Practitioner’s Perspective

Professor Petra Butler, University of Wellington
     An Academic Perspective
 

11:00-11:45am
 
Online Mediation: Challenges and Opportunities

Moderator, Professor Jackie Nolan-Haley, Fordham Law School

Deborah Masucci, Chair, International Mediation Institute

James C. Melamed, CEO, Mediate.com

Mark Smalls, CMO, JAMS
 

11:45am-12:30pm

Diana Didia, SVP/CIO, American Arbitration Association
          An ODR Case Study:  Implementing an ODR solution for the Center
          for Copyright Information (PowerPoint Presentation)

Doc Searls, Co-author, The Cluetrain Manifesto and Author of The Intention Economy: When Customers Take Charge

Interviewed by Professor Leah Wing, Co-director, National Center for Technology and Dispute Resolution, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
 

2:00-3:00pm
 
ODR for E-Commerce
 
Moderator, George Friedman, Board Chairman, Arbitration Resolution Services

Professor Leah Wing, Co-director, National Center for Technology and Dispute Resolution, University of Massachusetts, Amherst (PowerPoint Presentation)

Zbyněk Loebl, CEO, Youstice

Mary Wong, Senior Policy Director, ICANN

Professor Lou DelDuca, Penn State Dickinson School of Law
 

3:00-3:45pm
 
Room 1: Teaching ODR online and offline

          Moderator, Professor Jill Gross, Pace Law School

          Professor Noam Ebner, Creighton University

          Professor David Larson, Hamline University
          (PowerPoint Presentation)

Room 2: ODR and Trustmarks

          Eiichro Mandai, Chief Executive Officer, ODR Room Network Inc.
          (PowerPoint Presentation)

          Wan Shafiuddin Zainuddin, Head of Department of Information Security
          Certification Body Department, CyberSecurity Malaysia, WTA member
          (PowerPoint Presentation)

          Mr. Casey Callaway, Director of Marketing, Council of Better
          Business Bureaus, Inc. (PowerPoint Presentation)

          Ms. Miki Oguma, Deputy Director, Consumers Affairs Agency Japan
          (PowerPoint Presentation)
 

4:15-4:45pm
 
Impact of Digital Justice on Dispute Resolution Professions

Professor Orna Rabinovich-Einy, University of Haifa

Zbynek Loebl, Founder, Youstice

Dr. Mohamed Abdel Wahab, Chair of Private International Law and Professor of Dispute Resolution (Cairo University)
Founding Partner and Head of International Arbitration, Zulficar & Partners (Egypt)