Resolving a New Kind of Trade War Through ODR

Abstract

This chapter, Resolving a New Kind of Trade War Through ODR, describes the development of "smart contracts" and the challenges in resolving disputes about them. It explains the need for good dispute system design to be built into smart contracts. This is published as part of John Lande’s new book, THEORIES OF CHANGE FOR THE DISPUTE RESOLUTION MOVEMENT: ACTIONABLE IDEAS TO REVITALIZE OUR MOVEMENT (John Lande, ed., 2020. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3533324

Keywords: smart contracts, ODR, ADR, CMC, computer-mediated-communication, technology, online dispute resolution, blockchain, algorithms, ethereum, code, computer, digitize, design