[ecrea] 2009 Workshop on Alternative/Online Dispute resolution

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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