Research Catalog

Title

Law, technology and dispute resolution : privatisation of coercion / Riikka Koulu.

Author

Koulu, Riikka

Publication

• Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.
• ©2019

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Details

Description

219 pages; 25 cm.

Summary

The use of new information and communication technologies both inside the courts and in private online dispute resolution services is quickly changing everyday conflict management. However, the implications of the increasingly disruptive role of technology in dispute resolution remain largely undiscussed. In this book, assistant professor of law and digitalisation Riikka Koulu examines the multifaceted phenomenon of dispute resolution technology, focusing specifically on private enforcement, which modern technology enables on an unforeseen scale. The increase in private enforcement confounds legal structures and challenges the nation-state's monopoly on violence. And, in this respect, the author argues that the technology-driven privatisation of enforcement from direct enforcement of e-commerce platforms to self-executing smart contracts in the blockchain brings the ethics of law's coercive nature out into the open. This development constitutes a new, and dangerous, grey area of conflict management, which calls for transparency and public debate on the ethical implications of dispute resolution technology. --

Series Statement

Law, science and society

Uniform Title

Law, science and society

Subject

• Dispute resolution (Law)
• Technology
• Technology
• Beilegung
• Freiwillige Gerichtsbarkeit
• Informationstechnik
• Privatisierung
• Recht
• Rechtsstreit
• Technik
• Vollstreckung
• Schiedsgerichtsbarkeit

Note

• "A GlassHouse Book"

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Part 1 Theoretical implications of dispute resolution technology. Introduction -- Understanding law and technology -- Emerging crisis -- Part II Three quests for justification : sovereignty, contract and access to justice. Heading towards justification -- Sovereignty and state agenda -- Consent and private autonomy -- Access to justice -- Part III New ways forward? New bases for justification -- Conclusions.

ISBN

• 9781138555389
• 113855538X
• 9781315149479 (ebk) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2018027087

OCLC

• on1042080447
• 1042080447
• SCSB-9207197

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library