Judges

Mr. Kusamotu practices law with the firm of Kusamotu and Kusamotu in Lagos, Nigeria. He is a graduate of the University of Lagos School of Law and chairs the Information Technology and Communications Committee of the Nigerian Bar Association, Lagos Branch. He chairs the Africa Committee for InternetBar.org, is the Project Lead of Creative Commons Nigeria and is involved in assisting One Laptop Per Child in launch strategies for Nigeria.

Christopher To is the Secretary-General of Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre. He also serves as the Secretary-General of the Asian Domain Name Dispute Resolution Centre. He is the Chairman of the Hong Kong Internet Forum and the Inter-Pacific Bar Association Dispute Resolution and Arbitration Committee. Mr. To has been elected to serve on the Nomination Committee of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (‘ICANN’).

Mr. To was named as one of the Young Global Leaders for 2007 by the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

Colin Rule is Director of Online Dispute Resolution for eBay and paypal.com He has worked in the dispute resolution field for more than a decade as a mediator, trainer, and consultant. He is currently Co-Chair of the Online Dispute Resolution Committee of the American Bar Association’s Dispute Resolution Section, and he serves on the Steering Committee of the Better Business Bureau’s Internet program, BBBOnline.

Daniel Rainey is the Director of the Office of Alternative Dispute Resolution Services (ADRS) for the National Mediation Board (NMB). He joined the NMB's staff in April, 2001.

As Director, ADRS, he is responsible for a range of projects and program areas, involving cooperation with and support for Mediation, Arbitration, and Representation.

Mr. Johnson is a graduate of Yale College (B.A. 1967, summa cum laude) and Yale Law School (J.D. 1972). In addition, he completed a year of post graduate study at University College, Oxford (1968). Following graduation from law school, he clerked a year for Judge Malcolm R. Wilkey of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Mr. Johnson joined Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering in 1973 and became a partner in 1980.

Edward Rholl is a graduate of Marquette and Georgetown Law Schools and a member of the Wisconsin Bar. Ed practiced law for eight years, focused on business law. Ed left the active practice of law in 1998 and has been involved in the development of e-learning programs for the legal profession since 2000. Ed was a part of the company that brought some of the first live continuing education webcasts to the legal community and also spent a year as special assistant to the President of Abacus Data Systems, a law office software provider.

Professor Katsh is a graduate of the Yale Law School and has authored three books on law and technology, Law in a Digital World (Oxford University Press, 1995) The Electronic Media and the Transformation of Law (Oxford University Press, 1989), and, with Professor Rifkin, Online Dispute Resolution: Resolving Conflicts in Cyberspace (2001). His articles have appeared in the Yale Law Journal, the University of Chicago Legal Forum, and other law reviews and legal periodicals. His work has been the subject of a Review Essay in Law and Social Inquiry (Summer 2002).

Frank Fowlie is the inaugural Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) Ombudsman. He has been the Ombudsman since November 2004. ICANN is an internationally organized, non-profit corporation that has responsibility for managing the domain name system. Frank is the organization’s inaugural ombudsman and has been the ombudsman since November 2004. As the ombudsman, Frank is a member of the International Ombudsman Association, the Forum of Canadian Ombudsman, the International Ombudsman Institute and the United States Ombudsman Association.

Graham Ross, MD is a solicitor and mediator. Graham was co-founder/owner of WeCanSettle.com, the first UK online 'blind bidding' system. He has taken his innovative ideas further with TheClaimRoom.com to incorporate full online negotiation/mediation.

Graham has considerable experience in major high profile personal injury group actions (he founded and led the successful action against the UK Government for HIV infected haemophiliacs, and was a member of the steering committee that negotiated the largest ever group settlement, being for miners made ill by coal dust inhalation).

Leah is on the faculty in the Legal Studies Department at the University of Massachusetts/Amherst where she has taught Dispute Resolution since 1993. Her recent research and teaching applies Critical Race theory to mediation and issues of environmental justice. She has been a mediator and trainer since 1985, working with over one hundred educational institutions and non-profits on the intersections between oppression, diversity, and conflict resolution.

Dr. Mohamed S. E. Abdel Wahab, Licence en Droit (CAI), LL.M (CAI), Ph.D (MAN), MCI Arb. is a Lecturer at Faculty of Law, Cairo University , Egypt and Assistant Director of the Human Rights Centre at Cairo University . He has taught part-time on the LL.M, LL.B, and BA programmes at Manchester and Manchester Metropolitan Universities, England.

Azevedo Sette Advogados, Belo Horizonte, Brazil (see lexuniversal.com). Azevedo Sette, Ordélio Education. University of Brasilia, Law School (LL.B., 1966). Post-graduate studies in Public Law and Constitutional Law. Extension course in International and Comparative Law at Cornell University, Ithaca and in National and International Commercialization at the OAS in Washington, D.C. President of the International Chamber of Commerce of Brazil, 1988-1990. Professor of International Law, OAB-MG School of Lawyers, 1986. United Nations External Consultant.

Dr. Orna Rabinovich-Einy was awarded a J.S.D. degree from Columbia University in October 2005. Her dissertation was entitled "From Settlement to Justice: Dispute Resolution in the Internet Age." While at Columbia, Dr. Rabinovich-Einy participated in an innovative project led by Prof. Susan Sturm, studying the internal dispute resolution unit at the National Institute of Health, Washington D.C. She is a member of the New York State Bar and is a certified mediator from Safe Horizon Mediation Services, New York.

Peter Gerhart, a professor at Case Western Reserve Law School, was the dean of the law school from 1986 to 1996. He now specializes in issues of globalization and legal theory. In addition to law school courses in International Trade and in International Intellectual Property, Mr. Gerhart also teaches Global Economic Issues in the EDM program of the Weatherhead School of Business and Intellectual Property at the Central European University in Budapest.

Sanjana Hattotuwa was born in 1977 and was educated at S. Thomas' College, Mount Lavinia, Sri Lanka, and the University of Delhi, India. Mr. Hattotuwa has an Honours Degree in English Literature and is a founding member of Info-Share, prior to which he worked as a Research Associate at the Centre for Policy Alternatives, Colombo, Sri Lanka. He has written widely on topics related to media, conflict and technology for peace building and has participated in numerous workshops and conferences on peacebuilding, conflict transformation, media and ICT.

Steward Levine is a resolutionary counselor, mediator, facilitator, trainer and author of Getting To Resolution: The Book of Agreement.

More than two decades ago, Levine left the practice of law to engineer a career focused on resolution. Not all lawyers can make such a radical transition, but many wish they could change the tone of their practice to focus more on agreement than conflict. In his work, speaking, and writing, Levine helps make this resolutionary aim achievable.

Professor Tamar Frankel (LLM., SJD., Harvard Law School; Jerusalem Law Classes, Israel) has written and taught in the areas of mutual funds, securitization, financial system regulation, fiduciary law and corporate governance. She is the author of Trust and Honesty.