TY - GEN AU - Koulu,Riikka TI - Law, Technology and Dispute Resolution: The Privatisation of Coercion T2 - Law, Science and Society SN - 9781315149479 PY - 2018/// CY - Oxford PB - Taylor & Francis KW - IT and Communications law / Postal laws and regulations KW - bicssc KW - Sociology KW - E-commerce: business aspects KW - Computer science KW - Digital and information technologies: Legal aspects KW - Production and quality control management KW - Research and development management KW - Technology: general issues KW - Commercial law KW - Social law and Medical law KW - Dispute Resolution Technology KW - private KW - Private Enforcement KW - enforcement KW - Out-of Court Dispute Resolution KW - structural KW - User Reviews KW - Private Enforcement Mechanisms KW - coupling KW - Due Process Criteria KW - justificatory KW - Private Online Dispute Resolution KW - narrative KW - Structural Coupling KW - smart KW - ODR Platform KW - contracts KW - ODR Provider KW - mechanisms KW - autonomy KW - ODR Service KW - ODR Procedure KW - Traditional Ideal Model KW - Luhmann’s Social Systems Theory KW - Low Intensity Disputes KW - Dispute Resolution KW - Private Dispute Resolution KW - Smart Contracts N1 - Open Access N2 - 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 UR - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/102106/1/9781351370400.pdf UR - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/159894 ER -