Online Dispute Resolution : Law’s Future in the Digital Age

Today, conventional legal practices coexist with technology-driven legal services.In the legal world, as in so many aspects of human life, digitalisation is the future and the future is now.Online Dispute Resolution looks at one aspect of the fundamental changes that the digital revolution has brought and will bring to the provision of legal services.Written by Dr Max Barrett, a judge of the High Court of Ireland, the book considers how, to an increasing extent, a worldwide revolution in dispute resolution is unfolding with many legal disputes now being resolved remotely by way of online dispute resolution. And it proceeds on the basis that, as part of that global ‘resolution revolution’, courts as we have known them are destined to be consigned to history’s cabinet of curiosities as public justice systems turn to offer fair access to a fundamental human right: justice online. Interested readers will learn about: The ongoing transformation of legal services: the book considers how digi