"With a view to providing a focus on the emerging trends in International Arbitration, the Construction Industry Arbitration Council (CIAC) under the patronage of the Construction Industry Development Council (CIDC) will be organizing a “International Seminar on Institutional Arbitration & Online Dispute Resolution Techniques” from 14-15 December 2011 at New Delhi. The event is supported by UNCITRAL, AALCO & other International and National bodies.
"...the European Commission unveiled today a package of legislative proposals to ensure that all EU consumers can solve their problems without going to court, regardless of the kind of product or service that the contractual dispute is about and regardless of where they bought it in the European single market (that is, at home or abroad). For consumers shopping online from another EU country, the Commission wants to create an EU-wide single online platform, which will allow to solve contractual disputes entirely online within 30 days.
I'm sitting in the audience of the International Mediation Alliance's 2011 conference on cross-border mediation, listening to Diana Wallis, Vice-President of the European Parliament. This meeting looks like it will touch on some very interesting topics over the next two days, from commercial cases to consumer cases, from family mediation to insurance mediation. The audience seems mainly Italian, but there is simultaneous translation into German and English.
Hello, everyone -- very glad to be here with you on the new odr.info!
Just wanted to call your attention to a new article by Jaap Van den Herik and Daniel Dimov of Leiden University - "Towards Crowdsourced Online Dispute Resolution" in 'Law Across Nations: Governance, Policy & Statutes', International Association of IT Lawyers (IAITL), September 2011, pp. 244 - 257.
