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Coming Soon: A Global ODR System

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International arbitration is all over the map when it comes to resolving minor commercial disputes. Now, the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) is about to bring direction to the issue with the release of its recommended rules later this year. “Essentially, they are looking at online dispute resolution [ODR],” said Timothy Lemay, principal legal officer with the UNCITRAL Secretariat in Vienna. “The concern is there are many, many millions of cross-border but small transactions. There is no very good place for those disputes to be resolved.”“ODR is already very valuable. The question is, can we build an ODR system for the whole Internet?” said Colin Rule, chief executive officer of Modria.com, an online dispute resolution company, in San Jose, Calif.Read full article at the original publication link below.

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