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Online Dispute Resolution (ODR): What is it, and is it the Way Forward?

By Beth Graham - September 24, 2013

Julio César Betancourt, Head of Research & Academic Affairs at the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, and Elina Zlatanska, Research Assistant at Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, have published an interesting article entitled, Online Dispute Resolution (ODR): What is it, and is it the Way Forward?, 79 International Journal of Arbitration, Mediation and Dispute Management, Issue 3, 2013.

Digital Disagreements: Neural Networks and Their Potential

By Karl Bayer - March 22, 2013

Neural Networks: The Potential Part 3 of 3 This is the third, and final, installment in a three Part series on the role of Artificial Intelligence in Online Dispute Resolution. Insight into the neural networking aspects of AI is drawn from an interview with Jacob Menashe, Doctoral Candidate in Computer Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin. There is great potential for adapting neural networks for ODR purposes. A neural network works like

Digital Disagreements: Artificial [Intelligence] Arbitration

By Karl Bayer - March 20, 2013

Part 2 of 3 This is the second installment in a three Part series on the role of Artificial Intelligence in Online Dispute Resolution. Please join the conversation and comment below. ODR and AI The subfield of Artificial Intelligence [AI] in Online Dispute Resolution has been progressing rapidly. There is no doubt that it will have a broad impact. Law and AI are particularly well-suited to work together as they

Digital Disagreements: The Future of Artificial Intelligence in Online Dispute Resolution

By Karl Bayer - March 18, 2013

Part 1 of 3 This is the first installment in a three Part series on the role of Artificial Intelligence in Online Dispute Resolution. Please join the conversation and comment below. One of arbitration’s principle advantages is the informality with which the process is carried out.[1] Informality may lead to increased speed of dispute resolution and reduced costs.[2] However, recently arbitration has taken on some of the formal

Internacional: España Inicia Programa de Mediación

By Victoria VanBuren - January 27, 2010

Jose Antonio Garcia Alvaro, de Arbitraje y Mediación (ARyMe) reporta lo siguiente: Cataluña se adelantó –y sigue siendo objetivamente la Comunidad más avanzada y atrevida en materia de mediación de España—, pero Valladolid le sigue la pista en materia de mediación civil, si bien a nivel de proyecto inicial piloto de mediación civil adscrito inicialmente a dos juzgados. Así, Valladolid ha obtenido el visto bueno del Consejo General del Poder Judic

International: Spain Launches Civil Mediation Program

By Victoria VanBuren - January 27, 2010

Jose Antonio Garcia Alvaro from ADR Resources (ARyME) reports: In Spain, Catalonia has always been a step ahead of the rest of the country when it comes to mediation. Catalonia was the first region in the country to pass an act regulating family mediation, and the first ever to legislate civil mediation at large. Valladolid (a province of the larger Castilla-León region) follows suit, and has decided to pilot-test a court-annexed program on civil