LEGAL STATUS OF INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTIONS SPECIALIZED IN RESOLUTION OF ODR DISPUTES

Abstract

During the 1990s, a working group in the United States (Philadelphia) launched the first prominent ODR project at a meeting sponsored by the National Center for Automated Information Research and the Cyberspace Law Institute. The Virtual Magistrate Project was a voluntary online arbitration procedure with the goal of resolving disputes between Internet Service Providers and users of online systems5. Although VM only issued one decision (in 1996), its failure was attributed not to the nature of the ODR mechanism, but to insufficient advertising and a limited range.