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:[email protected]

 

 


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From: CITDR [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2004 2:58 PM
To: [email protected]
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: [email protected]

 

 

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:[email protected]






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