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Facilitating Expansion Of Cross-Border E-Commerce - Developing A Global Online Dispute Resolution System (Lessons Derived From Existing Odr Systems – Work Of The United Nations Commission On International Trade Law), Louis Del Duca, Colin Rule, Zbynek Loebl Apr 2012

Facilitating Expansion Of Cross-Border E-Commerce - Developing A Global Online Dispute Resolution System (Lessons Derived From Existing Odr Systems – Work Of The United Nations Commission On International Trade Law), Louis Del Duca, Colin Rule, Zbynek Loebl

Penn State Journal of Law & International Affairs

This article examines the growing need for online dispute resolution (ODR). It traces the birth of the internet, expansion of e-commerce, and the resulting evolution of ODR systems in the past two decades. To facilitate development of a global ODR system, it looks at the structure and operation of existing and proposed ODR systems such as eBay, Concilianet, Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the proposed Organization of American States (OAS) – ODR initiative, and the E-Commerce Redress Interchange (ECRI) and NGO proposals for Fast Track Substantive Principles and Common ODR Data Standards. The anatomy of a global …


From Institutional Misalignments To Socially Sustainable Governance: The Guiding Principles For The Implementation Of The United Nations Protect, Respect And Remedy And The Construction Of Inter-Systemic Global Governance, Larry Cata Backer Jan 2012

From Institutional Misalignments To Socially Sustainable Governance: The Guiding Principles For The Implementation Of The United Nations Protect, Respect And Remedy And The Construction Of Inter-Systemic Global Governance, Larry Cata Backer

Journal Articles

Once upon a time, and for a very short time, there was something that people in authority, and those who manage collective memory, considered a stable system of political and economic organization. It was grounded on a complex division of authority between states, economic entities and social collectives. Contemporary economic globalization has destabilized this traditional system. Corporations are no longer completely controlled by the states that chartered them or within complex enterprises, even by those in which they operate. Social collectives now operate to change the political cultures that affect the public policy of states and the economic behavior of …