This thesis critically evaluates the governance, resolution of disputes and regulation decentralised autonomous organisations (DAOs) through lens institutional cryptoeconomics (IC). DAOs, which use smart contracts, therefore blockchain, are a new type organisation, can take many forms, including for-profit not-for-profit. The primary data used in scholarly grey literature triangulated with semi...

This article argues that the evolving regulatory and governance environment for artificial intelligence (AI) will significantly impact alternative dispute resolution (ADR). Very recently, AI regulation has emerged as a pressing international policy issue, with jurisdictions engaging in sort of arms race. In same way existing ADR regulations use ADR, so too new among other reasons, because is al...

This paper aims to describe an initial stage of research related to the introduction of a new completion to the online dispute resolution landscape in consumer law domain. The aim is to include a legal layer into the life cycle of dispute resolution schemes that has not been yet considered. This is part of an intended support-system that aims to provide both consumers and companies with meaning...

Scholars have argued that anger expressed by participants in mediation is counterproductive; yet, there is also reason to believe that expressions of anger can be productive. The authors tested these competing theories of emotion by using data from online mediation. Results show that expression of anger lowers the resolution rate in mediation and that this effect occurs in part because expressi...