Enhanced Dispute Resolution Through the Use of Information Technology

Abstract

Alternative dispute resolution has now supplanted litigation as the principal method of dispute resolution. This overview of dispute resolution addresses practical developments in areas such as family law, plea bargaining, industrial relations and torts. The authors elaborate on the necessary legal safeguards that should be taken into account when developing technology-enhanced dispute resolution and explore a wide range of potential applications for new information technologies in dispute resolution.

Semantic Web for the Legal Domain: The next step

“…This fact changed dramatically in the 21st century, owing in part to a new extremely competitive framework, nationally and internationally alike, and to the economic success of the Web. The launching of the Creative Commons in 2001, 60 Online Dispute Resolution (ODR) systems [71], crisis-anddisaster management platforms (such as USHAIDI), 61 and crowd-sourced systems for constitutional and legal drafting purposes 62 [74] incorporate new kinds of social regulations based on participation, Open Source Intelligence (OSINT), and Social Intelligence 63 (SI) [97]. Different private and public, individual and collective, interests have to be balanced and harmonised in a transparent and accountable manner, especially when security and data-protection principles need to be implemented to protect citizens and citizens' rights at the same time.…”

“…Customary international private law cannot be easily modelled without taking all stakeholders into account. The general balance between privacy, data protection, and security [58] seems to broaden the legal normative scope for regulating, among other elements, linked data markets [116], co-regulatory instruments [98], self-regulated collective awareness and informed consent [88], the behaviour of LEAs behaviour (law enforcement agents) 71 [25], and the use of multi-lingual and multi-jurisdictional term banks [105]. Distributed geospatial data, textual data, and controlled vocabularies can be combined to create interactive tools to enhance the rule of law and the specific legal information that citizens would need to perform legal acts [62].…”

Consumedia. Functionalities, Emotion Detection and Automation of Services in a ODR Platform

“…Lodder [24] and Lodder and Zeleznikow [25] have recently shown the need to take into account a "fith" additional party -the technology provider. This means that singling out who is providing the platform, and who is taking the responsibility for the overall mediation processes which have to be run onto it, matters.…”

Incorporating Fairness into Development of an Integrated Multi-agent Online Dispute Resolution Environment

“…Explanation is provided through the use of Toulmin argument structures. Though Split-Up is a decision support system rather than a negotiation support system, the tool does provide disputants with their respective BATNAs and hence provides an important starting point for negotiations (Lodder and Zeleznikow 2010).…”