The book aims at providing a state-of-the-art overview and assessment of the status quo and future of the ODR field by the leading ODR scholars in the world. International, comparative, and interdisciplinary approaches have been utilized, and the book is divided into two main parts. In part one, in-depth assessment of ODR, its applications, and future is provided in a comparative and analytical context, and part two provides a regional oriented approach, where the prospects, challenges, and success of ODR and its applications in the North America, Latin America, Africa, Australia, Europe, and Asia is mapped and fully addressed.

The book is a must read text by scholars, practitioners, academics, and researchers in the dispute resolution and information technology field.

Target group

Academics and Practitioners in the field of dispute resolution and negotation.

Author's information

Dr. Mohamed S. Abdel Wahab is a founding partner and head of the Firm's International Arbitration and Project Finance Department. He is an assistant professor of Law at Cairo University, and holds visiting posts in the UK and USA. He is also an adjunct professor of international commercial arbitration and faculty coordinator for the Indiana University - Indianapolis LL.M. in Business and Comparative Law in Cairo.
Dr. Abdel Wahab is recognized as one of Egypt's leading arbitration and project finance practitioners. He possesses extensive expertise in international arbitration, private international law, IT law, online dispute resolution, hotel management and FIDIC contracts. Dr. Abdel Wahab works in Arabic, English, and French, and has read law at Cairo University (Egypt), Manchester University (UK), Oxford University (UK), and King's College (UK).

Ethan Katsh is Professor Emeritus, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Director of the National Center for Technology and Dispute Resolution and 2010-2011 Distinguished Fulbright Chair in the Social Sciences, University of Haifa.

Daniel Rainey is the Chief of Staff for the National Mediation Board (U.S.), a Fellow of the National Center for Technology and Dispute Resolution, and an adjunct faculty member of the graduate dispute resolution programs at Creighton University and Southern Methodist University (www.danielrainey.us).

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