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[ecrea] 2009 Workshop on Alternative/Online Dispute resolution

Thu May 21 05:56:12 GMT 2009



2009 Workshop on ADR/ODRS
(Alternative/Online Dispute resolution)

Building bridges:
Legal framework and principles

Barcelona, Spain , September 15, 2009

Preliminary announcement
& Call for papers

A UOC workshop, organized in cooperation with the
Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (IN3)



The Universitat Oberta de Catalunya in conjuction with the Internet Interdisciplinary Institute is pleased to invite you to participate in this workshop to be held in Barcelona on setember 15, 2009. This full day workshop will take place at the Department of Law, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC), Avda Tibidabo, 39-43, 08035 Barcelona. Telf. (0034) 93.253.23.00.

It will be an excellent opportunity to exchange and debate about the trends of ADR/ODRs, their scope and core principles.

PRESENTATION

This workshop is part of a legal studies program undertaken at the UOC at nacional and international level n ADR/ODR, with the aim of making progress on the building of ?bridges? that will allow interoperability between the current two existing pathways on justice administration (deliberative/adversarial justice). As it is known, ADRs and ODRs embody methods or processes that have emerged spontaneously on account of the Courts collapse, and are becoming catalysts of the two traditional systems of conflict solving between individuals.

On the basis of previous and successful meetings and symposia held internationally by experts, providers and practicioners, the purpose of this workshop is to initiate an open and reflexive dialogue and to share ideas, with the longterm objective of building up a common legal framework. Previous events have revealed the enormous potential of online dispute resolution services and the problems of growth related mostly with the lack of basic and common standards and the current dificulties for interoperability between in and out of court methods.


We are interested in exchanging information and ideas, in knowing current academic activities related, and work-in-progress of ADR/ODRs research in this field. We propose to analyse the scope of private autonomy and also to identify common principles and standards governing ADRs and ODRs, with the aim of making the first steps towards the delineation of a regulatory legal internacional framework. Interoperability between ADR/ODRs and Courts demands some level of uniformity, especially in cross jurisdictional conflicts that can be performed through the Internet.

This meeting, opened to experts, practitioners and scholars, is an invitation to a joint reflection on the legal formal and substantial articulation of all these tools and Courts.


PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT AND LOCATION

The UOC-IN3 invites you to participate in this workshop on ADR/ODR to be held in Barcelona, Spain, on september 15, 2009. The event will take place at the Department of Law, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC), Avda Tibidabo, 39-43, 08035 Barcelona. Telf. (0034) 93.253.23.00.

There is no registration fee for this event. A registration form will be available with the program soon.

CALL FOR PAPERS

Authors are invited to submit contributions up to a max. of 5000 words (max. 12 pages) to the Program Commitee, Aura Esther Vilalta, (<mailto:(avilalta /at/ uoc.edu)>(avilalta /at/ uoc.edu)). Submissions should be related to some aspect of the overall contents of the workshop and in any of the following languages: Catalan, Spanish, English or Italian. They should be original and not previously published. In order to encourage knowledge dissemination, all revelant submissions will be uploaded on the workshop website. Authors of selected papers will participate in the workshop panel discussions and the chosen may be able to be published in the IDP Law Review (referenced in the following directories and databases for the assessment, identification and impact of scientific journals: MIAR, DICE, LATINDEX, Redalyc and E-Journals (CINDOC-CSIC).

Deadline for submission of originals: June 26, 2009.
Notification of acceptance: July 6, 2009

Submissions should include the name, affiliation, e-mail address and short bio of author(s), along with no more tan 500 words of work description or abstract.


TABLE OF CONTENTS (PROGRAM)

Submissions may address, but are not limited to, the following topics:

- Self determination, party autonomy on ADR/ODRs.
- Freedom of will, contractual freedom.
- Principles of ADR/ODRs.
- Taxonomy of ADR/ODR.
- Interoperability of ADR/ODR and Courts.
- Contents of neutrality, impartiality activity on ADR/ODR. Scope of confidenciality and secret.



PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Pere Fabra Abat, Vice-Chancellor of the UOC and project Director of ?Changes in Information Society: prospectives?. Agustí Cerrillo. Director of Law Studies and Political Science Department at the UOC.
Victor Sánchez, Director of Law Studies Program at the UOC.
Ramón Casas Vallés. Senior Lecturer of Law at the Universidad de Barcelona.
Agustín Luna Serrano. Professor of Civil Law at the Universidad de Barcelona.
Aura Esther Vilalta, Lecturer of Law, at the UOC. IN3 Researcher.
Marta Poblet, ECREA Researcher. Lecturer of Law and Sociology at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.


ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

The provisional program with additional information and subscription to the workshop will be available through the web in july 2009. If you wish to be informed about future workshops, seminars or symposia, you can contact Aura Esther Vilalta, Estudios de Derecho y Ciencia política de la Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC), Av. Tibidabo 39-43, 08035 Barcelona, Telf. (+34) 93.253.23.00, ext. 2173, Fax. (+34) 93.417.64.95, <mailto:(avilalta /at/ uoc.edu)>(avilalta /at/ uoc.edu).



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