Geneva
University
Law
School and Dept. of Information Systems (MiraLab)
Research
Team on
Online
Dispute Resolution, Arbitration, and Information Technology
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Thomas SchultzThomas Schultz is a postdoctoral research fellow currently with Geneva Law School, where he works on international dispute settlement. He did postdocs at the Lauterpacht Research Center for International Law, Cambridge University, and with the Geneva Project on Online Dispute Resolution, Information Technology and Arbitration at Geneva Law School. Over the last years, he has also sat on working groups of the United Nations, the Federation of European Direct Marketing, and a consumer organization. He is a sometimes columnist for odr.info and the Geneva Center for European Legal Studies and works for the Swiss Review of International and European Law as a junior editor. Thomas gained a Ph.D. from Geneva Law School in early 2005, an (anticipated) LL.M. from the European Academy of Legal Theory (Brussels) in 1999, and the usual law degree from Geneva Law School in 2000. For more information, why not have a look at his curriculum vitae.
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The Information Technology & Dispute Resolution trilogy |
 In the beginning was Online dispute resolution - Challenges for Contemporary Justice. |
 Then came Regulating e-commerce through online dispute resolution (in French). |
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Publications and work in progress
Books
Information
Technology &
Arbitration: A Practitioner’s Guide 
Kluwer Law International, The Hague, 2006.
Réguler
le commerce électronique par la résolution des
litiges en ligne - Une approche
critique
Une approche critique
Bruylant and LGDJ,
Brussels, 2005.
Online
Dispute Resolution:
Challenges for Contemporary Justice
(with Gabrielle Kaufmann-Kohler)
Kluwer Law International, The Hague, 2004.
Articles
Private Legal Systems: What Cyberspace Might Teach Legal Theorists
10 Yale Journal of Law & Technology (forthcoming 2007-2008).
Sailing away from judicial interference:
Arbitrating the America’s Cup
2006:1-2 International Sports Law Journal 27.
Taking the fourth party further? Considering
a shared virtual workspace
for arbitration
(with Dimitris Protopsaltou and Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann)
15 Information & Communications Technology Law 157 (2006).
La
lex sportiva se manifeste aux Jeux olympiques de Turin:
suprématie du droit non étatique et boucles
étranges
JusLetter special issue on sports law, 20 February 2006.
Human rights: a speed bump for arbitral
procedures? An exploration of
safeguards in the acceleration of justice
9:1 International Arbitration Law Review 8 (2006).
La régulation en
réseau du cyberespace
55 Revue Interdisciplinaire d'Études Juridiques 31 (2005).
The
Use of Information Technology in Arbitration
(with Gabrielle Kaufmann-Kohler, Dimitris Protopsaltou, and Nadia
Magnenat-Thalmann)
JusLetter special issue, 9 December 2005.
eBay : un
système juridique en formation ?
22 Revue du Droit des Technologies et de l’Information 27
(2005).
Dispute Resolution at the
America's Cup
JusLetter special issue on sports law, 5 September 2005.
Does online dispute resolution
need governmental intervention? The case
for architectures of control and trust
6 North Carolina Journal of Law & Technology 71 (2004).
Online Dispute Resolution Systems
as Web Services
(with Vincent Bonnet, Karima Boudaoud, Michael Gagnebin, and
Jürgen Harms)
3 July ICFAI Journal of Alternative Dispute Resolution 57 (2004).
Connecting complaint
filing processes to online resolution systems
10 Commercial Law Practitioner 307 (2003).
An Essay on the Role of
Government for ODR. Theoretical considerations about
the future of ODR
in ONLINE DISPUTE RESOLUTION (ODR): TECHNOLOGY AS THE "FOURTH PARTY"
(Ethan
Katsh and Daewon Choi, eds 2003),
also published in [2003] August ADROnline
Monthly.
Pesée
d’intérêts: réflexions autour
de la notion d’intérêt
3 Diritto & questioni pubbliche 299 (2003).
Online arbitration: Binding or
Non-binding?
[2002] November ADROnline Monthly.
Online dispute resolution
(ODR): résolution des litiges et ius numericum
48 Revue Interdisciplinaire d'Études Juridiques 153 (2002).
Electronic Communication Issues
Related to Online Dispute Resolution Systems
(with Vincent Bonnet, Karima Boudaoud, Gabrielle-Kaufmann-Kohler,
Jürgen Harms,
and Dirk Langer
Proc. WWW2002 - The Eleventh International World Wide Web Conference -
Alternate
Track CFP: Web Engineering, Honolulu, Hawaii, conference on 7-11, May,
2002.
Reports
Online Dispute
Resolution: An Overview and Selected Issues,
Report presented at the First Forum on Online Dispute Resolution of the
United Nations
Economic Commission for Europe, Geneva, June 6-7, 2002.
Online Dispute Resolution: The
State of the Art and the Issues
(with Gabrielle Kaufmann-Kohler, Dirk Langer, and Vincent Bonnet)
Report of the E-Com / E-Law Research Project of the University of
Geneva, Geneva, 2001.
Columns
The
data-retention directive : the latest victim of anti-terror paranoia,
or is it an undercover agent for the entertainment industry?
Lettre d’Information du CEJE, February 15, 2006.
The
EU patent directive: A happy end
Lettre d’Information du CEJE, July 12, 2005.
Microsoft
throws in towel on EU interim ruling
Lettre d’Information du CEJE, February 15, 2005.
Will
"www.europa.int" become "www.europa.eu" ? We are just one step closer
Lettre d’Information du CEJE, October 18,2004.
Internet
Law : Commission Adopts Extra-Judicial Dispute Resolution Rules for
EU-Specific Internet Addresses
Lettre d’Information du CEJE, June 3,2004.
European
Commission Publishes Dispute Resolution Policy Concerning "eu"
Domain Names
ODR.info, May 23, 2004.
Arbitration,
Cyberspace, and Globalization: A Short Book Review of Katherine
Lynch, The Forces of Economic Globalization
ODR.info, April 28, 2004.
CyberTribunal
Relaunched as an Online Moot Arbitration Program
ODR.info, April 14, 2004.
The architecture of
ODR systems as their best promoter
[2002] 2 World Of Arbitration Newsletter.
Talks
Milan Arbitration Chamber Training Course
July 7, 2006
Milan, Italy
Lecture: Online Dispute Resolution and IT in arbitration
Cambridge University Lauterpacht Research Center for
International Law Fellows Meeting
May 30, 2006
Cambridge, England
Talk: Jurisdictional Principles to Handle
Extraterritoriality–Lessons from the Internet
Neuchâtel University
June 12, 2006
Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Lecture: La résolution des litiges en ligne
University College Dublin
April 4, 2006
Dublin, Ireland
Lecture: Technology in dispute
resolution
Geneva University Doctoral School on Dispute
Resolution
March 22, 2006
Geneva, Switzerland
Roundtable: De quelques modes d’écriture
académique
Inaugural Colloquium of the Geneva University
Doctoral School on Dispute Resolution
November 2, 2005
Geneva, Switzerland
Talk: La régulation du commerce
électronique par la résolution des litiges en
ligne
Journée internationale
d’études “Pyramide-réseau :
fécondité d’une
hypothèse”
Novembre 6, 2005
Bruxelles
Talk: La régulation en réseau du
cyberespace
Fédération romande des
consommateurs
June 30, 2005
Lausanne
Talk: La résolution des litiges en ligne pour les
associations de
consommateurs
Plenary meeting of the "MédiationS"
association
May 25, 2005
Geneva
Invited talk: La mediation en ligne
3ème cycle romand de droit
May 17–20, 2005
Charmey (FR, CH)
Talk: Human rights: a speed bump
for arbitral procedures?
Ph.D. Viva
14 January 2005
Geneva
Talk: Réguler le commerce
électronique par la résolution des litiges en
ligne.
Une approche critique (in French)
Meeting of the Swiss Arbitration Association (ASA)
on the topic of "Online Dispute Resolution"
Geneva Chamber of Commerce and Industry
25 November 2004
Geneva
Talk: Online dispute resolution:
tour d'horizon de la pratique (in French)
Slides
International Symposium “Putting ICT in
Dispute Resolution Practice”
Queen Mary, University of London and Chartered Institute of Arbitrators
6 September 2004
London
Talk: Due Process
in Online Arbitration: Public Policy as Speed Bumps
in Cyberspace
2nd UNECE Forum on ODR
30 June - 1 July 2003
Geneva
Talk: Regulatory Challenges
Posed by the Enforcement of Mediation
Outcomes
The International Conference on Artificial
Intelligence and Law (ICAIL)
Workshop: Online Dispute Resolution: Legal and Technical Aspects
28 June 2003
Edinburgh
Talk: An Essay on the Role
of Government for ODR
CCform project, 3rd meeting, ADR Panel
6 May 2003
Brussels
Invited talk: Filing forms
and filing processes
CCform project, 2nd meeting, ADR Panel
20 March 2003
Brussels
Invited talk: The current
state of play in ODR
1st UNECE Forum on ODR
6-7 June 2002
Geneva
Talk: Online dispute
resolution: an overview and selected issues
The paper written for the conference is available here.
Geneva Expert Colloquium on ODR: Online Dispute
Resolution: Where Are
We and Where Are We Going?
15-16 November 2001
Geneva
Keynote address: The
Relationship Between Sellers, Customers, and ODR Providers:
How, Why, and When?
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