John DeBruyn | 13 Oct 2004 00:38

RE: ICODR 2005 Announcement


Hi all,

The international inter-collegiate law student competitions in online
arbitration, mediation, and negotiation will take place early in 2004 with a
new track: litigation.  this year, plain old fashioned court-centered
litigation but with a twist as the teams, plaintiff and defendant, will
interact with a third student team taking on the role of court/judge.

If you are interested in participating as an evaluator please email Ben
(Professor Ben Davis) at bdavis8@... and you might
CC me so
that I can stay of top of the interest shown here in Network-Lawyers for
online dispute resolution and support of the student competitions.

There is more stuff on the 2005 completions at:

http://www.odr.info/icodr2005.php

The links in the announcement, appended way down below, washed out.  But the
announcement is still useful.  A good summary of the several programs
involved.

Please let Ben, Alan Gaintenby gaitenby@..., or myself,
jdebruyn@... know if you have a place where a poster could be posted
to promote this undertaking to law students and/or faculty.

John

John DeBruyn, Denver CO USA

  -----Original Message-----
  From: bengriffdavis [mailto:bdavis8@...]
  Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 2004 1:50 PM
  To: Network-Lawyers@...
  Subject: [NetLawyers] ICODR 2005 Announcement

  Please excuse the cross-posting.  For those of you interested in
  having upper level students try their hand at being an advocate,
  mediator, arbitrator, or judge in an online environment, please note
  the competitions below.  If you know of colleagues around the world
  who might be interested in fielding a team or being an evaluator in
  any one of the competitions, I would be grateful if you would pass
  this message along to them.

  Best regards,

  Benjamin Davis

  Associate Professor of Law

  University of Toledo College of Law

  2801 W. Bancroft Street

  Toledo, Ohio 43606

  Tel.: 1 419 530 5117

  Fax: 1 419 530 2439

  E-mail:ben.davis@...

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  From: CITDR [mailto:citdr@...]
  Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2004 2:58 PM
  To: citdr@...
  Subject: ICODR 2005 Announcement

  Center for Information Technology and Dispute Resolution

  ANNOUNCEMENT

  International Competition for Online Dispute Resolution (ICODR2005)

  The Center is pleased to announce the Fourth International
  Competition for Online Dispute Resolution (ICODR 2005) for law
  students.   To participate, law students need only have 1) access to
  the internet through a browser and 2) permission of a faculty
  member.  The competitions are free of charge.  This year we will
  again have online negotiation, mediation, and arbitration
  competitions.  As a new development we will also hold a prototype
  online litigation competition.

  ICODR Registration (schools and evaluators)
  ICODR 2005 Negotiation Competition Rules and Schedule
  ICODR 2005 Mediation Competition Rules and Schedule
  ICODR 2005 Arbitration Competition Rules and Schedule
  ICODR 2005 Prototype Litigation Competition Rules and Schedule

  The Process:

  Over the past three years we have held online negotiation,
  mediation, and arbitration competitions between teams from law
  schools around the world.  Law students have opportunities to role
  play as advocates for claimants and respondents as well as neutrals
  in each of the competitions.  Hypothetical cases used have been
  designed by law professors or been provided by the Harvard Program on
  Negotiation.  Distinguished professionals from around the world have
  participated as evaluators.

  Through ICODR 2004 ten technologies have been graciously provided
  free of charge including Online Resolution, West Workspace/Erooms
  Technology, Squaretrade.com, and several in the eNegotiation group
  (SimpleNS, MeetingOne, WebNS, The Negotiating Room, and Negoisst,
  Inspire, Family_Winner, and SmartSettle).

  The Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre, the International
  Chamber of Commerce International Court of Arbitration, the
  Arbitration and Mediation Centre of the World Intellectual Property
  Organization, the London Court of International Arbitration, the
  Permanent Court of Arbitration at the Hague, and the International
  Centre for Dispute Resolution of the American Arbitration Association
  have permitted us over the past years to make reference to them when
  students are appointed neutrals in the arbitration competition - to
  help the realism of the experience.

  To participate law students express interest through faculty members
  (i.e. coaches), in each competition team(s) are assigned roles and
  given hypotheticals to prepare, and then the students participate
  anonymously by accessing a platform in cyberspace for conducting
  conflict management.

  Student roles in 2005 will be as advocate for their client in the
  negotiation competition, as advocate for their client or as mediator
  in the mediation competition, as advocate for their client or
  arbitrator in the arbitration competition, and as advocate for their
  client or judge in the prototype litigation competition.

  Evaluators have access to the rooms in which the students are acting
  and can read what the students submit to evaluate the effectiveness
  of each student team.  The most effective teams in each role in each
  competition are recognized.

  Schedules and other information:

  Hypotheticals are scheduled to be handed out in early January 2005.

  The Online Negotiation competition will be held in two rounds in
  February and March 2005.  Round 1 (February 20-27), Round 2(March 2-
  5), Results posted April 15.

  The Online Mediation competition will be held in two rounds in
  February 2005.  Round 1 (February 6-13), Round 2(February 16-20),
  Results posted April 15.

  The Online Arbitration competition will be held in one round over two
  months in February and March 2005.  Round: February 1 - March 31,
  Results posted May 15.  Advocates will participate as Claimant in one
  room and Respondent in another room.  To the extent possible student
  arbitrators will serve in two rooms and - depending on numbers - in
  arbitral tribunals of 3 members.

  The prototype Online Litigation competition will be held over two
  months in February through April 2005. Round: February 15 - April 15,
  Results posted May 15. Advocates will participate as
  Plaintiff/Claimant in one room and Defendant/Respondent in another
  room.  To the extent possible student judges will serve in two
  rooms.

  West Workspace/Erooms Technology has accepted to be the technology
  for the ICODR 2005 competitions.  To explore a past year of the
  competition on this platform, please go to

  https://www.westworkspace.com/eroom/icodr2003

  Username: observer2004

  Password: observer2004

  If prompted click on browser only

  For more information please contact:

  Alan Gaitenby

  Assistant Director

  Center for Information Technology and Dispute Resolution

  University of Massachusetts

  Amherst, Massachusetts

  Tel.: 1 413 577 1394

  email: gaitenby@...

  Benjamin Davis

  Associate Professor of Law

  University of Toledo College of Law

  2801 W. Bancroft Street

  Toledo, Ohio 43606

  Tel.: 1 419 530 5117

  Fax: 1 419 530 2439

  E-mail:ben.davis@...

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