Archives: February 2006
Fri Feb 24, 2006
FTC Planning Meeting for OECD Consumer Policy Gathering 3-13
Lee Peeler, the Deputy Director of the FTC's Bureau of Consumer Protection is convening a prep meeting to discuss the upcoming March 29-30 OECD Committee on Consumer Policy (CCP) meeting taking place on Jeju Island, Korea.
The OECD's Draft Recommendation on Dispute Resolution and Redress in International Transactions will be discussed.
The prep meeting will be on Monday, March 13, 2006 at 3:00 pm at the FTC, 600 Pennsylvania Avenue N.W., room 481. For more information, email Elena Gasol Ramos at EGASOLRAMOS@ftc.gov.
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Wed Feb 22, 2006
New Book
Learn about the Evolution of Alternative Dispute Resolution ...
Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA
This new book explains how alternative dispute resolution first moved online, how it evolved, and how ODR is now being applied. ...
Topics Covered
PART I: Moving Adr Online: The Internet Synergies, Enhancements And
Problems
Chapter 1 - An Overview of Alternative Dispute Resolution in the
Offline World
Chapter 2 - Online Dispute Resolution Methods
Chapter 3 - ODR: A Practice Guide
PART II: The Confluence of E-Commerce and ODR
Chapter 4 - The Nature of E-Commerce
Chapter 5 - Establishing Jurisdiction Over E-Businesses--Problems and
Conflicting Pulls at Home and Abroad
Chapter 6 - Regulating E-Commerce: Current Schemes, Proposals for the
Future and the Role of ODR
Chapter 7 - Dispute Prevention: Privacy, Security and Consumer
Protection Concerns
Chapter 8 - Designing an ODR System: Issues and Proposals
Chapter 9 - Recommendations and Predictions
http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20060222005758&newsLang=en
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Mon Feb 06, 2006
NIACR Book Award Winners on The Future of ODR
From an interview with Michael L Moffitt and Robert C. Bordone, editors of "The Handbook of Dispute Resolution," which received the 2005 NIACR Book Award.
(N.B. the chapter referred to on ODR was written by Ethan Katsh.)
"NIACR: Ok. I also was interested in the chapter you included on online dispute resolution. Do you see an increase role in the future for online dispute resolution?
Bordone: I think the answer to that is definitely yes. Partially because I think there are ways that technology can be used to help parties. An interesting area of research of study and experimentation is to figure out what those ways are. Again, technology for technology’s sake doesn’t necessarily help and can actually be bad. But I think there are ways that we can use it well in our field. So partially, I think the answer is yes because it could be a really good tool, and I think partially the answer is yes, simply because like it or not parties are doing more stuff online. Even if we don’t think it’s a good idea, the likelihood that we are going to stop doing more, that we’re going to stop people from doing things online, I believe is low. Moreover, more commerce is occurring online and so more disputes will be occurring online. So it just seems inevitable to me that this is an area of growth down the road."
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