ICAIL 2023 - Online Dispute Resolution for E-Justice workshop / Keynote announced
Michał Araszkiewicz
Final Call for Papers & First Call for Participation - the 1st International ODR E-Justice Workshop
The International workshop on Online Dispute Resolution for E-Justice is organised in the framework of the e-Justice ODR scheme project (G.A. 101046468) will be a hybrid event held on Monday, June 19th at the University of Minho, Braga, Portugal, in conjunction with the 19th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law (ICAIL 2023).
https://icail2023.di.uminho.pt/
Topic
The purpose of the workshop is to discuss the different layers of existing and potential ODR /e-justice systems to provide a broad theoretical, comparative and practical outlook on the subject. The existing diversity of the adopted approaches, methods and techniques and the experience gathered so far in connection with the developed tools and relevant legal regulation call for a more unified methodological perspective.
Keynote speech: ODR through the Lens of Access to Justice
Professor Amy J. Schmitz, Full Professor and Chair in Law at The Ohio State Moritz College of Law and Program on Dispute Resolution in the United States, will discuss how she and others became interested in “online dispute resolution” (ODR) many years ago as means for expanding access to justice (A2J). Although there is no generally accepted definition of ODR, it includes online problem diagnosis and self-help tools, as well as technologies to promote online negotiation, mediation, arbitration, community courts, and variations thereof. Nonetheless, ODR comes with perils and it is necessary to revamp research regarding ODR to promote A2J. As Co-Director of the Translational Data Analytics Institute (TDAI) for Responsible Data Science at The Ohio State University, Professor Schmitz will add concerns not only about process and design, but also the human element. In these times of iterative AI, and mechanisms like ChatGPT, there are reasons to be concerned that we have lost perspective on what it means to promote “responsible data science.” Furthermore, there is a lack of comparative research to date that compares in-person verses online dispute resolution with a deeper lens beyond outcomes and time. Professor Schmitz hopes to engage discussion on this topic, after sharing her own pre-Covid research, and future research avenues and ideas that she and others hope to pursue in the future.”
About the Workshop
The workshop is organised in the frame of the DG Justice supported project, titled “E-justice ODR Scheme”. This project is led by the European University Institute and involves the institutions where the workshop co-organizers work. The purpose of the project is to develop an open, general and adaptable semi-specification of an ODR system using open digital mapping of standard e-justice ODR processes and standard or semi-standard digital tools (e.g. BPMN tools) to warrant a more standardised approach concerning the development of various ODR tools.
We are inviting submissions that concern the current issues of ODR and E-justice, including but not limited to:
the basic conceptual schemes, knowledge representation and ontology engineering for the development of ODR systems, including process modeling (such as BPMN and others);
reasoning mechanisms (logic-based, rule-based, case-based, argumentation-based, hybrid ones) for ODR systems;
support systems and decision support systems for the processes of negotiations, mediation, arbitration as well as for judicial proceedings;
the use of AI methods in the development and operation of the ODR systems, including but not limited to generative ML/NLP methods;
data governance, management and processing in connection of the ODR systems development and operation;
ethical and legal challenges, constraints and implications related to the particular types of systems and classes of cases resolved with their support or via (semi-)automated processes, with particular focus on ethical issues concerning access to justice of people belonging to vulnerable or disadvantaged groups.
Provisional agenda
10.00 Introduction and presentation of the e-Justice ODR scheme project
10.30 ODR standard process - Kick-off presentation by Michał Araszkiewicz
11.15 BPMN tool and on the process of extracting data elements - Kick-off presentation by Davide Rua Carneiro
12.00 Ethical aspects of ODR mechanisms - Kick-off presentation by Yashar Saghai
General discussion
Lunch break
14.00 Keynote speech: Amy Schmitz
15.00 Presentation of selected papers, followed by a roundtable discussion
Important Dates
Submission deadline: May 21th, 2023
Notification of acceptance: May 31th, 2023
Camera-Ready Papers Submission Deadline: June 16th, 2023
Workshop: June 19th, 2023
Submission guidelines
Papers should not be longer than 12 pages. We also also invite the submission of short papers (6 pages) and extended abstracts (2 pages). The submissions should be formatted in accordance with the CEUR Workshop Proceedings guidelines https://ceur-ws.org/HOWTOSUBMIT.html#PRECONDS. The one column version should be used.
Only original and previously unpublished work may be submitted to the workshop.
Please submit your paper within the deadline (May 21th, 2023) to the Easy Chair installation https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=odrejustice2023
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Organizing Committee / Contacts
Michał Araszkiewicz - Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland
Federica Casarosa - European University Institute, Florence, Italy
Davide Carneiro - Polytechnic of Porto, Portugal
Zbynek Loebl - PRK Partners, Czech Republic
Hans Micklitz - European University Institute, Florence, Italy
Yashar Saghai - University of Twente, the Netherlands
Program Committee (tbe)
Araszkiewicz Michał
Carneiro Davide
Casarosa Federica
Loebl Zbynek
MIcklitz Hans
Saghai Yashar