BARCELONA, SPAIN, SEPTEMBER 15, 2009
Barral Viñas, Inmaculada. Senior Lecturer in Civil Law at the University of Barcelona. Member of the Research Group for Private Law, Consumer Rights and New Technologies (GREDINT). President of the College of Arbitration at the Consumer
Arbitration Board of Catalonia. Participating in the White Book on Mediation in Catalonia and member of the International Academy of Commercial and Consumer Law.
Bello Janeiro, Domingo. Professor Bello Janeiro is the Chair of the Department of Civil Law at the Faculty of Law of La Coruña University and has been nominated arbitrator by the World Bank and arbitrator at the International Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) in international claims. Prof. Bello has been General Director of the Galician School of Public Administration (EGAP) and also Vice-Chairman of the Law Faculty of the University of Santiago de Compostela. Has been honored with the San Raimundo de Peñafort Cross, the most valuable decoration in law in Spain (2005) by the Department of Justice. Nominated member of the Galician Academy of Jurisprudence and Legislation. Prof. Bello has directed many research activities in civil law for the Governmental Law Department, The General Council of the Judiciary, the High Court of Justice, the Academy of Jurisprudence and Legislation and many Bar Associations. Prof. Bello is the director of various research studies on arbitration and mediation.
Buti, Andrea. Attorney, civil law specialist and teacher of Law and Conciliation Techniques at the Faculty of Law of the University of Camerino (UNICAM). Professor in Master's in International Business Law at the La Sapienza University in Rome, and in the Summer School Global Market and Disputes Management, University of Camerino, and numerous chambers of commerce in Italy. Member of the International ADR Center in Rome.
Casas, Ramón. Senior Lecturer in Civil Law at the University of Barcelona and Lecturer at the Judicial School of the General Council of the Judiciary. –Dr. Casas is Professor of Civil Law and Intellectual Property Law. President of the Spanish section of the AIE and permanent member of the Intellectual Property Mediation and Arbitration Commission. Prof. Ramon Casas has been Director of Law Studies at the Open University of Catalonia (UOC). Researcher of the ET2 team of the White Book on Mediation in Catalonia, research project of the Justice Department of the Government of Catalonia.
Cazorla, Ma Jose. Doctor. Senior Professor of Civil Law at the University of Almeria. Mediator at the Provincial Consumer’s Board of Almeria.
Cortés, Pablo. Dr Pablo Cortés is a qualified attorney in Spain and a lecturer in law at the University of Leicester in the UK, where he teaches Civil Justice System, Contract Law, Commercial Law and EU Law. He is originally from Galicia (Spain) where he obtained his primary degree in civil law at the University of Vigo. He completed a LLM in European and Comparative Law (first class honors) at the University of Limerick (Ireland). During his Masters he taught Comparative Legal Systems. He proceeded to University College Cork (Ireland) in 2005 to write a PhD thesis entitled Developing Online Dispute Resolution for Consumers in the European Union. He was awarded the Matheson Ormsby Prentice Solicitors Scholarship in the first year of his research. In 2006, he was awarded a Government of Ireland Postgraduate Scholarship (IRCHSS) to fund the remaining two years of his PhD studies. As well as conducting doctoral research he taught EU Law and Contract Law at University College Cork. He has presented papers at a number of international conferences and published articles in various journals, including Rutgers Computer & Technology Law Journal, Computer & Telecommunications Law Review, Civil Justice Quarterly, Computer Law & Security Report, Information & Communications Technology Law, Revista General de Derecho Europeo and Actualidad Jurídica Aranzadi.
Corvo López, Felisa Maria. Lecturer in Civil Law at the University of Salamanca. Academic Coordinator of the Master in Legal Practice from the USAL. Lecturer at the Master Interdisciplinary Studies of Gender in USAL, where he teaches a module on family mediation. Defended her doctoral thesis on The right of over-building and under-building, and their integration in the horizontal property regime. Felisa María Corvo does research on family law and has published several papers on family mediation.
Cobacho Gómez, Jose Antonio. Rector of the University of Murcia, Professor Cobacho Gomez is also Chair of the Department of Civil Law at the Faculty of Law. Professor Cobacho has been Secretary General and Vice Chancellor of Legislative Development and Planning, University of Murcia. For twelve years he was Dean of the Faculty of Law (1993-2005). Professor Cobacho teaches Civil Law and is specialized in issues of real estate and family law. He is the author of the Global Report on the law schools of Catalonia. He was a member of the Law Council of Murcia from 1998-2006.
De Alfonso, Jesus. Lawyer since 1969. International partner of Baker & McKenzie. Specializing in arbitrations in unfair competition, patent and trademark infringement, illegal advertising and conflicts over industrial plants and equipment matters. He has received awards including the European distinction Most Commended Lawyer in intellectual property disputes by jury WorldLeaders ® in London in 2006. Jesus De Alfonso is the current President of the Arbitral Tribunal of Barcelona.
Elisavetsky, Alberto. Certified public accountant Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero, Buenos Aires, Argentina. University professor: Negotiation and Systems Design for Conflict Resolution at Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero, Buenos Aires, Argentina (on site and distance).
CEO virtual events regional web conferencing service provider. Partner at mediar on line 1st Spanish speaking services for on line mediation through our self-developed web conferencing platform, company is based in Latin America (Argentina) and Europe (Spain). Director Virtual Center of Dispute Resolution Latinoamerica Project CVRCLA ODR/RED
Spanish weblog editor: electronic dispute resolution. Social network creator: ODR Latinoamerica and live web conferencing
Katsh, Ethan. Professor Katsh is a graduate of the Yale Law School and was one of the first legal scholars to recognize the impact new information technologies would have on law. He has authored three books on law and technology, Law in a Digital World (Oxford University Press, 1995), The Electronic Media and the Transformation of Law (Oxford University Press, 1989), and, with Professor Rifkin, Online Dispute Resolution: Resolving Conflicts in Cyberspace (2001). His articles have appeared in the Yale Law Journal, the University of Chicago Legal Forum, and other law reviews and legal periodicals. His pioneering scholarly contribution has been the subject of a review essay in Law and Social Inquiry (Summer 2002). Since 1996, Professor Katsh has been involved in a series of activities related to online dispute resolution. He participated in the Virtual Magistrate project and was founder and co-director of the Online Ombuds Office. In 1997, with support from the Hewlett Foundation, he and Professor Rifkin founded the Center for Information Technology and Dispute Resolution at the University of Massachusetts. In 2001, he received a grant from the Markle Foundation to improve accessibility to domain name dispute rulings. The domain name dispute database was built in collaboration with the Cornell Law School Legal Information Institute. From 1997-1999, Professor Katsh mediated a variety of disputes online, involving domain name/trademark issues, other intellectual property conflicts, disputes with internet service providers, and others. In the spring of 1999, he supervised a project with the online auction site eBay, in which over 150 disputes were mediated during a two week period. During the summer of 1999, he co-founded Disputes.org, which later worked with eResolution to become one of four providers accredited by ICANN to resolve domain name disputes. Professor Katsh has chaired the UN International Forums on Online Dispute Resolution, held in Geneva in 2002 and 2003, Melbourne in 2004, Cairo in 2006, Liverpool in 2007, Hong Kong in December 2007, Victoria (Canada) in June 2008, and scheduled to be held in Israel in June 2009. He has been Visiting Professor of Law and Cyberspace at Brandeis University, is on the Board of Advisors of the Democracy Design Workshop, the Legal Advisory Board of the InSites E-governance and Civic Engagement Project, the Board of Editors of Conflict Resolution Quarterly, and is a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation. For the past three years, Professor Katsh has been co-Principal Investigator, with Professor Lee Osterweil and Dr. Norman Sondheimer of the UMass Department of Computer Science, of a National Science Foundation funded project to model processes of online dispute resolution. This work is also being coordinated with the United States National Mediation Board. In 2007, this project received a second grant from the National Science Foundation to conduct further research on ODR processes.
Herrera Campos, Ramón. Professor Herrera Campos is the Chair of the Department of Civil Law at the Faculty of Law at the University of Almería.
Herrera de las Heras, Ramón. Doctor. Asóciate Professor of Civil Law at the University of Almeria. He was Director of European Affairs in Almeria. He is also mediator at the Almeria's Court of Arbitration of Diputación Provincial. He focus his research in consumer matters.
Lodder, Arno R. Associate professor at the Computer/Law Institute of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Director of the Centre for Electronic Dispute Resolution (CEDIRE.org), an international research platform concentrating on legal and technical aspects of electronic dispute resolution. His research interests lie both in AI and Law (in particular legal argumentation), and IT Law (E-commerce), and at the intersection of both fields: Online Dispute Resolution. He is the author/editor of numerous articles, special journal issues, and a dozen books, the book review editor of Artificial Intelligence & Law, treasurer of the foundation of knowledge systems JURIX, member of the Board of the Dutch IT & Law association (NvvIR), member of the UN expert committee on ODR. His research covers amongst others various aspects of Electronic Dispute resolution such as E-signatures in criminal proceedings (2006, for Ministry of Justice) and the BEST-project: "Using Semantic Web technology to develop a system that helps litigants in determining BATNAs in damages disputes (2005-2008)."
Loebl, Zbynek. Zbynek Loebl is currently a manager of UDRP implementation at the Czech Arbitration Court (CAC) in Prague, Czech Republic. He is a technology lawyer - specialist in Internet law, e-commerce law, on-line dispute resolution, intellectual property law, technology law and electronic communications law. Mr. Loebl was a managing partner of CEAG, a regional law firm based in Prague. He also managed a team which implemented .eu ADR system administered by the CAC and currently leads an international team which has implemented a modern on-line platform for administering UDRP disputes by the CAC.
Luna Serrano, Agustín. Professor Luna Serrano is the Chair of the Department of Civil Law at the Faculty of Law, Ramon Llull University. He has also been Chair of the Department of Civil Law at the University of Barcelona. Member of the Academy of Jurisprudence and Legislation of Catalonia. Arbitrator, Arbitration Court of Barcelona. Among his production are essays on civil law and its principles, the role of law and the legal system, preliminary treatment, transactions, the vices of consent, and arbitration. Professor Luna Serrano is Doctor Honoris Causa by the Universities of Perugia, Italy and Mexico.
Macduff, Ian. Practice Associate Professor and Director of the Centre for Dispute Resolution in the School of Law, Singapore Management University, where he teaches courses in negotiation, conflict resolution, and ethics. Until June of 2008 he was the Director of the NZ Centre for Conflict Resolution, Faculty of Law, Victoria University of Wellington and an independent mediator and trainer in a number of fields. He has been consultant and trainer for the World Health Organisation for a capacity building programme in Sri Lanka from 1999 to 2001 and again in 2004. He is co-editor of Ethnic Conflict and Secessionism in South and South East Asia (Sage, 2003); co-author of Dispute Resolution in New Zealand (OUP 1999), and of Guidelines for Family Mediation (Butterworths, 1995). He was Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore, from January to April 2004; and had a one-year joint appointment in Law and the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, NUS, for 2005. He has been Visiting Professor at the International Training Programme in Conflict Management of the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa on several occasions.
Maluquer de Motes, Carles. Full Professor of Civil Law at the Universitat de Barcelona. President of the Arbitration Consumer’s Court of Catalognia. Profesor Maluquer de Motes focus his research in consumers and arbitration maters.
Mehra, Salil. Senior Lecturer at the Temple Law Faculty since 2000. Salil Mehra focuses his research on comparative law matters concerning antitrust and intellectual property, especially involving Asia and Japan. He has also been a visiting scholar at Japan's Keio University. Prior to his career with Temple Law, Professor Mehra clerked for Chief Judge Juan R. Torruella of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, and then worked at the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice and the New York law firm of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, where his practice included antitrust, first amendment, and takeover defense litigation. Professor Mehra is a past Chair of the AALS Section on Antitrust and Economic Regulation.
Mezzasoma, Lorenzo. Professore II fascia of Private Law at the University of Perugia, Faculty of Economics. Honorary judge for the Superior Council of Magistracy. Researcher at the Department of Legal and Business Discipline at the University of Perugia. President delegate of the International Center for Legal Studies on Consumer Law, University of Perugia. Coordinator of research activity in the area of civil law, participates in the work of Gruppo SISDi.C. on the Green Paper for the revision of acquis principles on consumer protection and various works focused on protecting the interests of consumers.
Mullerat, Ramon. Lawyer and Law lecturer at the University of Barcelona. Director of the International Master of Higher Institute of Law and Economics (ISDE). Among his relevant nominations, we can mention been President of the British Chamber of Commerce in Barcelona, member and rapporteur of the Committee on the revised Code of Ethics of the International Bar Association (IBA), member of the International Law Section at the American Bar Association (ABA), member of the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA) and President of the Associació pel Foment de l'Arbitratge (AFA).
Nagarajan, Chittu. Chief Mediator and Head of ODRWorld.com and ODRIndia.com. Chittu is a Senior Consultant to PayPal and eBay Company. Chittu has a Legal Practicing Certificate and is a trained Mediator. Chittu's passion is in Online Dispute Resolution, Conflict Prevention and Resolution, Cyberlaws, E-commerce, Micro-finance and Intellectual Property. Her first degree is in History whilst her second degree is in Law. She now awaits her M.Phil in Alternative Dispute Resolution to E-commerce disputes. Chittu was responsible for developing the first Online Dispute Resolution service in India and Malaysia. ODRIndia was the third party dispute resolution provider to eBay India. She is currently working on the following Online Dispute Resolution sites; ODRWorld, ODRIndia, ODRChina, ODRJapan, ODRAustralia and ODRMalaysia.Chittu is involved in designing conflict prevention and resolution mechanism for the micro-finance industry in India, in addition to analyzing and providing advice on areas of improvement. Chittu is a Regular Guest Speaker at several Universities in India and Malaysia where she speaks on Intellectual Property, Mediation and Online Dispute Resolution. She also conducts workshops for various companies in India and Malaysia in the areas of Negotiation Skills, Conflict Management and Intellectual Property.
Noriega, Pablo. PhD in Computer Science specializing in Artificial Intelligence from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (1997). He is currently a researcher at the Research Institute on Artificial Intelligence (IIIA) of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) in Barcelona. His research focuses on regulated multiagent systems and particularly in electronic institutions. Technology research on agreement, as the argument, mediation, negotiation and collective decision-making, and simulation based on agents of social systems. As of May 2008 he has been a member of the board of the International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems and board member of the European Conference on Multiagent Systems. He is a member of the board of COIN symposia and co-founder of AMEC symposia. He was also president of the Mexican Society of Artificial Intelligence (1990-92) and chairman of the board of the National Laboratory for Advanced Computing (LANIA) (1992-2000). He has been professor and researcher at several institutions in Mexico (UAM, Anahuac, CINVESTAV Science Center and IBM among others (1981-89)). He was Director General for Informatics at the INEGI (1998-99) and Director of Policy and Standards at the Institute in Computer Science (1989-94). He has been a member of the Advisory Council on Computing and Communications of the OECD and the Consultative Group on Information Technology of UNIDO. He was also president of the National College of Actuaries (1991-93), a member of Council of Presidents of the Actuarial Association of North America and the board of the International Actuarial Association. In 2002 he received a Ramón y Cajal Fellowship from the Spanish government and joined the IIIA.
Pérez Martell, Rosa Maria. Senior Lecturer on Procedural Law at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC). Litigation consultant at the UOC. Professor of Arbitration in Legal Practice Room Bar Palmas, Professor of Negotiation in the Master of Business Administration at the School of Business MBA (Palmas). Training on ADR: Mediation techniques for managing conflicts (University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA, 2007), Title Specialization Arbitration (Rey Juan Carlos University and AEAD, Madrid), postgraduate course on Negotiation (IE Business School, Madrid, 2007). Author of several publications on mediation and arbitration. 2004-2006, substitute judge for the Provincial Court of Palmas. Lawyer from 2002-2003 and 2006 to the present. Arbitrator since 2007
Poblet, Marta. Dr. Marta Poblet is an ICREA researcher at the Institute of Law and Technology of the Autonomous University of Barcelona (IDT-UAB) and Lecturer in Sociology of Law at the UAB Department of Sociology. She was a member of the former UAB Sociolegal Studies Group for 10 years (1995-2004) and has participated in a number of research projects on law and technology, judicial systems, legal professions, ADR, and ODR. She teaches at the International Master in Conflict Resolution at the Open University of Catalonia (UOC) and at the Master in Conflict Management and Resolution at the University of Barcelona-Les Heures. Her research areas cover legal organizations, judicial systems, conflict resolution, ADR-ODR, and technology-related aspects. She has published over 20 scientific articles in journals and books. Marta Poblet holds a Juris Doctorate from Stanford University (2002) and a Masters Degree in International Legal Studies (Stanford Law School, 2000). She graduated in Political Sciences and Sociology at the UAB (1994) and in Law at the UB (1992).
Rabinovich, Orna. Orna Rabinovich-Einy is Assistant Professor of Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Haifa. Her areas of expertise are alternative dispute resolution (ADR), online dispute resolution (ODR), and civil procedure, with research focusing on the relationship between formal and informal justice systems, dispute resolution system design and the impact of technology on dispute resolution. She is a fellow of the Haifa Forum of Law and Society, a colleague at the Haifa Center for Law and Technology, and a fellow at the Center for Information Technology and Dispute Resolution at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Rabinovich-Einy holds a Bachelor's Degree in Law from Tel Aviv University (magna cum laude) and LL.M. and J.S.D. degrees from Columbia University. She was admitted to the Bar in Israel (1998) and New York (2001) and was certified as a mediator in New York by the Safe Horizon Mediation Center (2003).
Rizzo, Francesco. Senior Lecturer at the School of Specialization in Civil Law, University of Camerino. Professore II fascia at the Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Camerino. He has been vice department legal discipline of the Faculty of Law, University of Camerino. He participates in research projects in the field of consumer protection and digital economy law. Lecturer in Law Information and Network at the Faculty of Economics, University of Salerno. He has published works and documents on consumer law.
Rizzo, Vito. Professor Rizzo is the Chair of the Department of Civil Law at the Faculty of Law at the University of Perugia and Professor at the Notarial School Baldo degli Ubaldi in Perugia. Member of the Scientific Council of the Institute of Theoretical and Technical Legal Information (Ittigen) of CNR. Director of the Center for the Study of Theory of Interpretation E. Betti, University of Camerino. Director of the Seminar on Forensic Application, University of Perugia. He has been a member of the board of the University of Camerino. Professor Rizzo is also conciliator judge.
Ross, Graham. Graham Ross is a lawyer and commercial mediator with over 20 years of experience in IT and the law. Graham is the author of legal applications software (including the original version of the QUILL solicitor's accounts and time recording package) and was the founder of LAWTEL, the popular web-based legal information update service. He was co-founder of the UK's first ODR service which developed a blind bidding tool called 'We Can Settle' and then went on to co-found the leading ODR provider, The Mediation Room.com (trading name of The ClaimRoom.com Ltd) of which he is managing director. Graham was responsible for drawing up the specification for the bespoke software at the heart of the service. Graham is a member of the United Nations Expert Panel on Online Dispute Resolution and speaks regularly at international conferences on the impact of the law on the internet and e-commerce and on technology in the judiciary and Alternative Dispute Resolution. Graham was host of the 5th International Conference on Online Dispute Resolution held in Liverpool, UK, in 2007 in collaboration with the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP). Graham is also a member of the Working Party of the European Committee on Standardization (CEN) developing a taxonomy for Online Dispute Resolution. Graham co-wrote with the ADR Group, a leading UK mediator trainer and provider, the accredited distance learning course for mediators in ODR which has trained over 60 mediators worldwide. This course is administered by The Mediation Room.com. In his legal work, Graham had considerable experience in clinical negligence and in major high profile personal injury and product liability group actions, including the successful action against the UK government for HIV infected hemophiliacs (which he founded and led) and was a member of the steering committee that negotiated the largest ever group settlement, being for miners made ill by coal dust inhalation).
Ruggeri, Lucía. Professor Ruggeri is the Chair of the Department of Civil Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Camerino and Director of the School of Specialization in Civil Law. Professor Ruggeri also teaches in the "Corso per conciliatori di Diritto societario e bancario", University of Camerino, course recognized and accredited by the Italian Ministry of Justice. Coordinator of the Master Law, Economics and Information Technology at the University of Camerino. Professor Ruggeri has research projects on new technologies, their impact on business practice and communications in the telematics market, and in particular on the role of private autonomy and judicial function in the information society.
Rule, Colin. Colin Rule is Director of Online Dispute Resolution for eBay and PayPal. He has worked in the dispute resolution field for more than a decade as a mediator, trainer, and consultant. He is currently Co-Chair of the Advisory Board of the National Center for Technology and Dispute Resolution at UMass-Amherst and a Non-Resident Fellow at the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School. Colin co-founded Online Resolution, one of the first online dispute resolution (ODR) providers, in 1999 and served as its CEO (2000) and President. In 2002 Colin co-founded the Online Public Disputes Project, which applied ODR to multiparty, public disputes. Previously, Colin was General Manager of Mediate.com, the largest online resource for the dispute resolution field. Colin also worked for several years with the National Institute for Dispute Resolution in Washington, D.C. and the Consensus Building Institute in Cambridge, MA. Colin has presented and trained throughout Europe and North America for organizations including the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, the Department of State, the International Chamber of Commerce, and the CPR Institute for Dispute Resolution. He has also lectured and taught at UMass-Amherst, Stanford, MIT, Creighton University, Southern Methodist University, the University of Ottawa, and Brandeis University. Colin is the author of Online Dispute Resolution for Business, published by Jossey-Bass in September 2002. He has contributed more than 50 articles to prestigious ADR publications such as Consensus, The Fourth R, ACResolution Magazine, and Peace Review. He currently serves as a contributing editor on eBay Radio and PayPal Radio, and posts regularly to Chatter, eBay's blog about the company and the community (in addition to his personal blog at Stanford). He holds a Master's degree from Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government in Conflict Resolution and Technology, a Graduate Certificate in Dispute Resolution from UMass-Boston, a B.A. in Peace Studies from Haverford College, and he served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Eritrea from 1995-1997.
Sigismondi, Irene. Doctor of Law, Information and Internet. Lawyer. His research focuses on the interpretation and assessment of the impact of innovation, technology and regulation on the world of law. Sigismondi is a researcher of the University of La Sapienza (Rome). Has worked at Yale University (Yale Center for Internet Studies), CNR-IRSIG (Research Institute on Judicial Systems, Bologna) and the LUISS Guido Carli University in Rome.
Suquet, Josep M.ª. Researcher, Institute of Law and Technology (IDT). He has been Professor of Private International Law and European Law at the Law School at the Autonomous University of Barcelona since 2000, consultant for New Technologies of the Open University of Catalonia (UOC), legal adviser at the Parliament of Catalonia in the VI and VII terms of office. Appointed Deputy Head of Institutional Relations of the Catalan Ministry of Culture in 2006. He is currently doing research on online dispute resolution (ODR) and participating in drafting the White Book on Mediation in Catalonia.
Tamarit, Josep Mª. Professor Tamarit is the Chair of the Department of Criminal Law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Lleida and is also member of the Commission to study measures to prevent the recurrence of serious crimes. Author of numerous publications on restorative justice and victimology in the criminal field. He is a member of the working group ET13 (legal) of the White Book on Mediation in Catalonia (project of the Department of Justice, Government of Catalonia).
Vicedo Cañada, Maria Luisa. Professor Vicedo is Doctor and teaches at the University Cardenal Herrera, CEU Valencia.
Vilalta, Aura Esther. Professor Vilalta teaches at the Open University of Catalonia (UOC) and is also Associate Professor of Civil Law at Ramon Llull University (ESADE). Researcher at the Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (IN3). Professor of the Master on International Conflict Resolution at the Open University of Catalonia (UOC). She has been deputy judge of the Court of Appeal in Barcelona (judicial year 2007-2008), professor at the School of Civil Practice Law at the Bar Association of Barcelona, and lawyer (1993-2007). She has research projects on ADRs and ODRs and publications. She is a member of the working group ET2 (comparative law) of the White Book on Mediation in Catalonia (project of the Department of Justice, Government of Catalonia).
Vinyamata, Eduard. Doctor of Social Sciences. BA in Economics and Social Sciences. Campus Director of the Foundation for Peace and Solidarity, Director of the research program on conflict at the research institute IN3-UOC, academic director of the International Master in Conflict and the UOC area Cooperation, Peace Studies and Humanitarian Action. Lecturer on conflict at the UOC and at various European and American universities, author of twenty books, most of these on conflict.
Viola Mestre, Isabel. Doctor. Professor of Civil Law at the University of Barcelona (UB). Master in Management and Conflict Resolution: Mediation by Heures – University of Barcelona. She has published on mediation in the succession of family business, the minor and the legal effectiveness of the agreements reached in mediation. Teacher in mediation and family law masters at the UB in Master of Legal Practice UB-ICAB (Bar Association of Barcelona) and the Masters in Mediation, also at ICAB. She also teaches the subject Family Mediation in the doctoral program of the Department of Civil Law at the UNED. She has taught at Lyon (France) and Salerno (Italy). She is a member of the working group ET13 (legal) of the White Book on Mediation.
Yúfera Sales, Pedro. Dean of the Bar Association of Barcelona. He is a lawyer and associate professor at Ramon Llull University (ESADE). Board Member of the Arbitration Court of Barcelona. He has been vice-dean of the Bar Association of Barcelona and professor at the School of Legal Practice of the same organization since 1995. Author of numerous books on private civil law.
Zeleznikow, John. John Zeleznikow has received over $AUD6,000,000 in competitive research grants; successfully supervised eleven PHD students and published three books, forty-six refereed journal articles, one hundred and twenty two refereed conference papers, twenty-nine refereed workshop articles and sixteen book chapters. He has conducted research and taught in Australia, France, Israel, Netherlands, United Kingdom and United States. Professor Zeleznikow's research has broadly focused upon using intelligent systems to support human decision-making in law. Within this domain, he has primarily considered how discretion is exercised in legal domains. He has conducted internationally recognized research on using computer techniques (called 'machine learning') to understand how legal decisions are made. His best known example is in the use of such techniques to predict how marital property is distributed following divorce in Australia (Split-Up system). Similar work has been conducted in copyright law, eligibility for legal aid, sentencing and workers compensation. At the University of Edinburgh, Professor Zeleznikow was involved in constructing ontologies for forensic science, including his involvement in a project on financial fraud detection. His recent research focuses upon managing negotiation knowledge and developing software to help with the resolution of disputes. The Family_Winner system asks disputants to value the issues in a dispute and then provides advice how to best sequence the negotiation and suggests potential trade-offs which lead to a win-win solution. He has recently received a large research grant to focus upon integrating justice into interest-based negotiation.
Professor Zeleznikow has been the winner of both Dutch and French Government Scientific Fellowships and European Union research funding worth $AUD4,000,000. On November 16 2005, his IT and Dispute Resolution software Family_Winner (developed with ex PHD student Dr. Emilia Bellucci) won its section of the ABC Television show the New Inventors.