Artificial Intelligence

Access to Justice, Artificial Intelligence, Diversity, ICC, Independence, Mining Sector, Rule of Law, Technology, Transparency

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For the centenary anniversary of the ICC International Court of Arbitration, this year’s ICC New York Conference on International Arbitration convened over 330 international arbitration practitioners, in-house counsel, academics, students, and outside counsel from 36 countries in the heart of New York City. As ICC Secretary General John W. H. Denton highlighted in his opening…

Artificial Intelligence, Canada, CanArb Week, ESG, Reform

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Over two hundred registrants convened on the historic trading floor of the Toronto Stock Exchange on October 19 for the ICC Canada Conference to explore forces and technologies driving change in the practice of international dispute resolution. The conference kicked-off with Myriam Seers’ (ICC Canada Chair, Agora) introduction to a video address from Claudia Salomon…

Artificial Intelligence, ChatGPT, Damages experts

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I recently had a conversation with a friend who expressed his worries about the potential implications of artificial intelligence (“AI”), such as ChatGPT, on the future of human labor. He voiced particular concerns regarding the displacement of humans’ roles in business analytics, the field in which his expertise lies. ChatGPT is an AI-driven chatbot that…

Artificial Intelligence, Contract Drafting, Corporate disputes, HK Arbitration Week, HKIAC, Hong Kong, Private Equity

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On October 17, the second day of Hong Kong Arbitration Week 2023, Davis Polk hosted a panel discussion entitled “Investor Information Rights: All Bark and No Bite? Managing Their Effectiveness”. The panel considered a hypothetical case study covering the life cycle of an equity investment into a renewable energy company and explored the legal and…

ADR, Artificial Intelligence, HK Arbitration Week, HKIAC, Hong Kong

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On the second day of Hong Kong Arbitration Week 2023, the ICC International Court of Arbitration (ICC) and the International Chamber of Commerce – Hong Kong (ICC-HK) hosted an in-person event on “Challenges of the 21st Century: Regulation of Use of AI in Dispute Resolution and Making ADR Work.” The event explored the appropriate techniques…

Arbitration Tech Toolbox, Artificial Intelligence, Deepfakes

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An unsteady camera lens captures figures enshrouded in the flickering semi-darkness of the room. Men in suits whisper in Spanish over a heavy wooden table. The Equatorian judge, his face captured by the concealed camera, stands up, signalling acceptance of the proposition: his decision for a $3 million bribe. This scene was forever etched into…

Artificial Intelligence, Asia-Pacific, Energy Dispute, Insolvency, Intellectual Property, Northeast Asia, SIAC, SIAC Symposium 2023, Southeast Asia, Technology, Trade

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Following the morning session which explored the geopolitics of international arbitration, the next generation of dispute resolution and the freshly-minted draft SIAC Rules (see Part 1), the afternoon session probed into regional and topical dimensions of international arbitration through six technologically-driven and interactive panel discussions.   I. Regional Developments, Trends & Forecasts   Illuminating Top…

Arbitration Tech Toolbox, Artificial Intelligence, ChatGPT, Privacy

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The prospect of integrating generative artificial intelligence (AI) into the adjudicatory decision-making process is not as distant as one might think. In February 2023, it was reported that a Colombian judge used ChatGPT in deciding a health insurance dispute. The judge asked both decisional and research questions and integrated those responses into his judgment. Another example comes…

Arbitration Procedure, Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, Human Rights, Technology

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Artificial intelligence (AI) has been used in international arbitration for quite some time now. Before the launch of ChatGPT in November 2022, there seemed to be an implied consensus that neither soft law nor regulation on the use of AI in arbitration was required. AI tools appeared to be considered as just one category of…

Arbitration Tech Toolbox, Artificial Intelligence, Black Box, Regulations, Technology

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A black box artificial intelligence (“AI”) model is one “created directly from data by an algorithm, meaning that humans, even those who design them, cannot understand how variables are being combined to make predictions” (see a more detailed discussion here). That we do not understand the way an AI reaches its conclusions is creating discomfort…

Artificial Intelligence, Collective redress, ESG, Europe, LIDW 2023

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London International Disputes Week (LIDW) 2023 main conference addressed various facets of international dispute resolution in a changing world. Looking back to the first edition of LIDW in 2019, when the main concern revolved around Brexit and the consequences of it on London as a leading place of arbitration and international litigation, the following editions…

Arbitration Tech Toolbox, Artificial Intelligence, Bias, Ethics

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Introduction ChatGPT is short for “Chat Generative Pre-Trained Transformer”.  It is an artificially intelligent text generation bot that can have a conversation.  It does so by using a language processing algorithm called a “Transformer”, which generates natural language responses to user input. There are various user platforms, for example, https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt.  ChatGPT is simple, like any…

Arbitration Tech Toolbox, Artificial Intelligence, Cryptocurrency, Online Dispute Resolution, Technology

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Given the protean nature of technology, it has the propensity to evolve in ways that may surprise even the keenest observers. As such, the time is ripe to take stock of developments in relation to the new technologies discussed in our earlier article from 2018, such as Big Data, blockchain, machine learning and text mining,…

Arbitration Tech Toolbox, Artificial Intelligence, Bias, Ethics, Fraud, Technology

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International arbitration is a prime example of the power and complexity of combined human minds. It is a marvel of human cooperation and ingenuity that strangers forego barbarism in favour of peaceful resolution – even more so when they do it cross-borders, on the unlikely belief that their interests will be guarded by yet another…

Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, Metaverse, Technology

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On the morning of Friday 16 September 2022, to the sound of the Star Wars theme, the first edition of the Future of Technology in Arbitration 2022 conference, a.k.a. FOTA22, officially began. Delving into many interesting topics, the organizers ensured plenty of opportunities for the participants to have an active say in what was being…

ADR, Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity, Data Protection, Diversity, Equal Treatment, Hybrid arbitration clause, ICC Arbitration, International Law Talk, Kluwer Podcast, Technology, technology industry

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International Law Talk is a series of podcasts through which Wolters Kluwer provides the latest news and industry insights from thought leaders and experts in the fields of International Arbitration, IP Law, International Tax Law and Competition Law. Here at Kluwer Arbitration Blog, we highlight the podcasts focused on international arbitration. In this latest episode,…

Africa, Artificial Intelligence, Asia, Climate change, ICCA, ICCA Edinburgh 2022, Legitimacy, Reform, Technology, Working Group III, Young Arbitration

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The second day of the ICCA Congress took place on Tuesday, September 20. Delegates gathered in the morning for the presentation of the inaugural ICCA Guillermo Aguilar-Alvarez Memorial Prize, established in honour of former ICCA Governing Board Member Guillermo Aguilar-Alvarez. Professor Stefano Azzali said a few words on the life and career of Guillermo, fondly…

Artificial Intelligence, Costs in arbitral proceedings, COVID-19, Diversity, Due process, ICCA, ICCA Edinburgh 2022, sociology of international arbitration

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The first full day of the ICCA Congress took place on Monday, September 19. Delegates gathered early in the morning for a keynote speech by Louise Arbour, former Canadian diplomat, Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada, High Commissioner for Refugees, Chief Prosecutor for the Yugoslavia and Rwanda Tribunals and current Senior Counsel at BLG….

Arbitrator Selection, Arbitrators, Artificial Intelligence, Database

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Wolters Kluwer recently launched the Profile Navigator and Relationship Indicator tools within the Kluwer Arbitration Practice Plus suite of arbitration products. Kluwer Arbitration Blog recently met with Dr. Nikos Lavranos and Ewa Cairns-Szkatuła to discuss this new development. Dr. Lavranos is Founder of NL-investmentconsulting and acts as legal counsel, arbitrator, mediator and offers a broad…

Arbitration, Artificial Intelligence, Discovery, Think Arbi

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Les notions, essentiellement philosophiques, de volonté et de liberté sont au cœur de la matière.  – Emmanuel Gaillard   Arbitration is a form of private dispute resolution. Parties arbitrate disputes through a private system created of their own will and liberty, contractually exiting the public, state-controlled system of dispute resolution. Whilst there are many different…

Arbitration Tech Toolbox, Artificial Intelligence, New York Convention, Robojudge, UNCITRAL Model Law

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At the time the New York Convention (1958) and the UNCITRAL Model Law (1985) were being drafted, the possibility of sophisticated technology rather than natural persons running and controlling an arbitration must have seemed far-fetched. But, at the same time, the language employed in both the Convention and the Model Law did not expressly exclude…

Artificial Intelligence, Canada, CanArb Week, Diversity, Third party funding

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As part of Canadian Arbitration Week, the 2021 ICC Canada Conference, titled Leaning into the Future, was designed to facilitate critical thinking and debate on several important topics in international arbitration. The focus of the conference was decidedly post-pandemic, exploring fault lines and cleavages in the system of international arbitration as we know it today,…

Arbitration, Artificial Intelligence, Deepfakes

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Arbitrator Intelligence

The legal industry has benefited tremendously from recent technological advancements, leading to the expansion of Legal Tech as the driving force for progress in this field. More and more tools – more or less Artificial Intelligence (“AI”)1)Generally, the term “Artificial Intelligence (AI)” refers to machines capable of replicating human intelligence. However, the technological status quo…

Arbitration Tech Toolbox, Artificial Intelligence, Best practices, Cybersecurity, Data Protection, Document Exchange, Document Production, Innovation, Technology, technology industry, Videoconferencing, Virtual hearings

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Arbitration Tech Toolbox is a new series on the Kluwer Arbitration Blog that aims to stimulate broader discussion and debate in the arbitration community on arbitration-related technology, its impact, and its future. We believe everyone stands to gain from a discussion of best practices surrounding the ongoing adoption of new technologies and identification of available…