Episode 45: Digital Dispute Systems Design, with Prof. Janet Martinez and Prof. Amy Schmitz

In this episode Ian chats with Professor Janet Martinez and Professor Amy Schmitz about their new book Digital Dispute Systems Design: Using Technology in Preventing and Resolving Conflicts. Professor Amy J. Schmitz is a full professor at The Ohio State Moritz College of Law and Program on Dispute Resolution as the John Deaver Drinko-Baker & Hostetler Endowed Chair in Law and a Co-Director of the Translational Data Analytics Institute (TDAI) CoP for Responsible Data Science at The Ohio State University. She is a prolific author in the fields of dispute resolution, online dispute resolution dispute systems design, arbitration, and consumer protection. Dr Janet Martinez is Senior Lecturer Emerita and retired from serving as Director of the Martin Daniel Gould Center for Conflict Resolution at Stanford Law School since 2004. Janet taught courses in negotiation, advanced negotiation (public policy, transactions, international), dispute system design, and alternative dispute resolution law and policy. She was Senior Consultant for the Consensus Building Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts, a nonprofit devoted to conflict resolution worldwide, including facilitating a series of policy dialogues in international trade and climate change; she now serves on the board of directors. She, too, is a prolific author in ODR and DSD. Here’s a link to the book and to more extensive bio information for both authors: https://aspenpublishing.com/products/schmitz-digitaldisputesystemdesign?srsltid=AfmBOooxJsQfFY7FzJ7s6M7XhxqYmsJiPIpL5CSowQh5j5_m5UF46zJI&variant=47659483070744