Is There an App for That? Electronic Health Records (EHRs) and a New Environment of Conflict Prevention and Resolution

Katsh discusses the new problems that are a consequence of a new technological environment in healthcare, one that has an array of elements that makes the emergence of disputes likely. Novel uses of technology have already addressed both the problem and its source in other contexts, such as e-commerce, where large numbers of transactions have generated large numbers of disputes. If technology-supported healthcare is to improve the field of medicine, a similar effort at dispute prevention and resolution will be necessary

Law Reviews and the Migration to Cyberspace

I am very pleased to contribute an introduction to this issue of the Akron Law Review, the first to appear both in print and on the World Wide Web. There are very few law reviews that have surfaced, thus far, on the World Wide Web. The editors who decided to take this step deserve our respect and admiration. Their decision reflects an understanding that the world of publishing and distributing information has begun to change, and begun to change in a significant way

Communications Revolutions and Legal Revolutions: The New Media and the Future of Law

Our age is noteworthy for the development of television and computers, media that transmit information over vast distances at electronic speed

The New New Courts

In this Article we describe the phenomenon of online courts, which is fast gaining momentum, and analyze these new new courts from an access to justice perspective. We distinguish between two turning points in terms of access to justice and courts: the rise of alternative dispute resolution (ADR) (producing what we refer to as the new courts ) and the spread of online dispute resolution (ODR) (giving rise to what we refer to as the new new courts ). While both developments seem to be motivated by similar rationales and a desire to increase access to justice, the implications of adopting ADR and ODR are different. The benefits associated with institutionalizing ADR in terms of access to justice were perceived primarily in efficiency-related terms due to the assumption that an inherent trade-off exists between efficiency and fairness. This assumption is now being challenged through ODR in the context of the new new courts. Because of the qualities of the digital medium and internet communication, ODR could potentially increase both the efficiency and fairness of dispute resolution processes, formal and informal. At the same time, the new new courts, precisely because of their reliance on algorithms and data, present novel challenges to fairness and open the door to new sources of danger for disputants and the judicial system