Dispute Resolution Mechanism for Smart Contracts

Dispute Resolution Clauses in International Contracts: An Empirical Study

Dispute Resolution for gTLD Conflicts

Efficient and equitable dispute resolution is key to avoiding systemic disturbance in the use and valorization of top level domain names (TLDs). Such dispute resolution is also important given the increasing number of clashes between TLD providers and managers and between trademark owners and generic (gTLD)-related registrants. ICANN policies/rules form the basis of gTLD-related second level do...

Costly Dispute Resolution Under Limited Commitment: A Mechanism Design Approach∗

Why do agents engage in costly dispute resolution such as litigation and arbitration when costless settlement is available? It has been argued that parties are asymmetrically informed about facts and the law surrounding a dispute. This causes the expected payoff from litigation for an agent to be unobservable to her opponent. This unobservability can lead to the break down of pre-trial bargaini...

Smart Contracts for Bribing Miners

We present three smart contracts that allow a briber to fairly exchange bribes to miners who pursue a mining strategy benefiting the briber. The first contract, CensorshipCon, highlights that Ethereum’s uncle block reward policy can directly subsidise the cost of bribing miners. The second contract, HistoryRevisionCon, rewards miners via an in-band payment for reversing transactions or enforcin...

8 Online Dispute Resolution for Consumers

ODR in the consumer context refers to the use of ICT tools and methods (usually alternative to the court system) employed by businesses and consumers (B2C) to settle conflicts that arise out of economic transactions between the parties, particularly in e-commerce. It is often distinguished from other fields where ODR is used, such as in the commercial field (B2B), in the public sphere to resolv...