Online Dispute Resolution: Challenges for Contemporary Justice

In a world governed by speed, where the Internet plays a growing role in many of today's innovations, the resolution of disputes using electronic means of communication may soon be part of everyday legal practice. This book offers solutions to the salient issues of this new field of practice, and even spells out proposed legislative and conventional amendments as well as specific provisions in arbitration rules. Among the topics covered are the following:
- the different methods of ODR;
- fields of use;
- ways to bring parties to online dispute resolution;
- validity and effects of clauses entered into online and providing for online mediation or arbitration;
- issues surrounding electronic communications and evidence in arbitration; and,
- enforcement of online dispute resolution outcomes, both through court proceedings and built-in enforcement mechanisms.

Product details

• Authors: Kaufmann-Kohler, Gabrielle Kaufmann-Kohler, Schultz, Thomas Schultz
• Publisher: Wolters Kluwer Law & Business
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2004
• EAN: 9789041123183
• ISBN: 978-90-411-2318-3
• No. of pages: 404
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 24 mm
• Weight: 744 g
• Series: International Arbitration Law; International Arbitration Law
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law