ADR Specialist with an eye on the intersection of AI, Humanity & Web 3.0
Abu Dhabi
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Robert Dean retweeted
The film on the Dispute Resolution Oracle, launched by the DIFC Courts at the Future Tokenisation Forum.
Read the white paper: courtsofthefuture.org/#dro
A great initiative and a pleasure to have also contributed as a peer reviewer 👇
Yesterday, the DIFC Courts published The Dispute Resolution Oracle, a white paper proposing a way for court decisions to be carried out on tokenised assets.
This is part of the Courts of the Future initiative, launched by DIFC Courts and Dubai Future Foundation (DFF).
Proud to have contributed as a peer reviewer, alongside @Deca4HQ.
courtsofthefuture.org/#dro
Some interesting stats on Jeddah Tower in KSA which is aiming to be the world's first 1km-tall building with an expected completion: 2028. 👀
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"This is less an airport and more a city... with some planes." - I like that line!
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This 👇
Very cheap, near-real-time resolution unlocks use cases unthinkable before. E.g., get busted in GTA, and a fair agentic trial happens while you grab yourself a beer or take the dog for a walk.
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This research is only going to get more important as AI tools are increasingly relied on in dispute resolution contexts. Kleros is right at the cutting edge here 👇
Which AI decides your dispute is starting to matter as much as which arbitrator does. ⚖️🤖
With @williamhwgeorge and Rob Dean, we ran 99 real fintech consumer disputes through different AI models acting as jurors: the same instructions, the same facts and the same rules the human jurors had received.
Claude Opus 4.7 was nearly FIVE times more likely than ChatGPT 5.5 to rule in the consumer's favor. And Opus 4.8, the newer version of the same model, systematically reversed some of its own predecessor's rulings by silently applying a different burden-of-proof standard.
The full results, published today on the @Wolters_Kluwer International Arbitration & Mediation Blog, are the empirical starting point for a problem the "AI in dispute resolution" narrative tends to skip.
Over the decades, commercial arbitration built an entire toolkit (arbitrator lists, disclosure obligations, challenge procedures) around the fact that WHO decides shapes WHAT gets decided.
How this toolkit applies to AI might be one of the most critical questions of the next decade of arbitration.
Read the full piece on the Kluwer Arbitration Blog:
legalblogs.wolterskluwer.com…
Just read @Ciarb's new report on expert witness evidence in arbitration. What stood out most to me: evidence works best when tribunals lead the process early and stay engaged, not when it's left to the parties. Worth a read yourself: ciarb.org/news-listing/ciarb…
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Robert Dean retweeted
Vol. 9, No. 2 is now live at stanford-jblp.pubpub.org. Find the print version at Stanford conferences including sbc-conference.com
@TuongvyLe12
@kkirkbos
@ProfVyas
@marcodellerba_
@Kleros_io
@federicoast
@robertgdean
@williamhwgeorge
@JayBuidl
@lai
@SLSTechLaw
The 2025 ICC Dispute Resolution Stats are out. Construction and engineering is the single largest source of ICC arbitration at 28% of new cases, with the UAE 7th worldwide by party nationality.
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It's been a while since I've shared one of @TheB1M's videos, this one is definitely worthy of the cut - what an epic tunnel project! "Set to be the longest and deepest subsea road tunnel in the world". youtu.be/Ho2luOd8JH4?si=-8T2…
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Robert Dean retweeted
It’s a wrap!
In collaboration with the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies and the Department of Computer Science from the @UniofOxford, we co-hosted “Law in the Digital Age of Crowds and Code”.
The workshop brought together legal scholars, arbitration practitioners, computer scientists, and institutional designers to discuss the future of law in the era of algorithms.
We structured the afternoon around two conversations that rarely happen in the same room.
In the first panel, we discussed the legal implications of the rise of decentralised justice systems.
Traditional legal systems were built for physical courts, national jurisdictions, and usually slow-moving disputes. The digital age has rendered those assumptions unstable. Cross-border e-commerce, autonomous AI agents, and decentralised organisations are already the new normal, yet legal infrastructure hasn’t caught up.
Together with Florian Grisel (CNRS/Oxford) and Nicole Stremlau (Oxford), and moderated by Fernanda Pirie (Oxford), we explored how decentralised dispute resolution systems interact with (and challenge) existing legal institutions, and what the transformation of international arbitration looks like in this new context.
In the second panel, we went deep into mechanism design.
With our Research Director @williamhwgeorge and @robertgdean (Diales and Kleros Supervisory Board), we discussed the architectural frontiers of decentralised justice: better jury selection models, more sophisticated incentive design, and above all the integration of AI into decentralised adjudication.
At the core of this work is the transition to second-generation decentralised justice systems, protocols with significantly more robust identity mechanisms, better jury selection frameworks, and architectures built for mass adoption.
It was a memorable afternoon with a convergence of arbitration practitioners, philosophers of law, game theorists, legal anthropologists, and cryptographers, all working on the same problem from different angles.
The questions raised in that room about fairness, automation, the rule of law, and the limits of algorithmic governance are no longer theoretical. They are live.
Many thanks to Fernanda Pirie, the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies and @KebleOxford for hosting this conference with us!
Recording coming soon!
Robert Dean retweeted
⚖️ On June 9, we'll be at the University of Oxford for "Law in the Digital Age of Crowds and Code."
Two panels with the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies and the Department of Computer Science on where dispute resolution goes when humans, mechanism design, and AI share the bench.
With @federicoast, @williamhwgeorge, Nicole Stremlau, Florian Grisel, @robertgdean, and Fernanda Pirie.
Free, registration required:
law.ox.ac.uk/content/event/d…
Robert Dean retweeted
DECENTRALISED JUSTICE AT OXFORD: LAW IN THE DIGITAL AGE OF CROWDS AND CODE
On June 9, in collaboration with the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, @UniofOxford (Faculty of Law) and the Department of Computer Science, we are hosting "Law in the Digital Age of Crowds and Code".
This conference will serve as an interdisciplinary forum bridging the gap between legal theory, computational innovation, and institutional design.
As traditional legal frameworks face unprecedented strain from technology, we will deep-dive into how decentralised justice, blockchain, and artificial intelligence are fundamentally reshaping arbitration and the rule of law.
The afternoon will be structured into two specialised panels:
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM. Law & Society Session: Alternative Dispute Resolution, Digital Environments and Legal Norms
This panel will explore how decentralised dispute resolution systems interact with (and challenge) legacy legal institutions. I will be joining Nicole Stremlau (University of Oxford) and Florian Grisel (CNRS / University of Oxford), with Fernanda Pirie (University of Oxford) moderating.
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM. Computer Science & Innovation Session: Mechanism Design, Game Theory, and AI in Decentralised Justice
This session will cover incentive design, peer prediction, and the integration of AI into decentralised adjudication, featuring Kleros Research Director @williamhwgeorge and @robertgdean (Associate Director, Diales), which I will moderate.
Whether you are a legal scholar, an arbitration practitioner, a computer scientist, or a researcher in institutional and mechanism design, this event offers a rare opportunity to engage with the structural questions shaping the next generation of legal infrastructure.
Event Details:
📅 Date: June 9, 2026
🕑 Time: 2:00 PM - 6:00 PM
📍 Venue: Arco Roy Griffiths Room, @KebleOxford
🎟️ Admission: Free
Registration required in this link:
law.ox.ac.uk/content/event/d…
Robert Dean retweeted
AI will undoubtedly shape the future of dispute resolution, but it's far from the whole story 🧐
This chapter by @federicoast @williamhwgeorge @robertgdean is a great look at where things are headed👇
The question is not whether AI will replace human arbitrators. The real question is: which disputes should AI decide, which should go to decentralized juries, and which still require traditional adjudication?
This is the topic of "When Decentralised Justice Meets Artificial Intelligence: Law in the Age of Crowds and Code", a chapter @williamhwgeorge, @robertgdean, and I wrote for "AI and Arbitration", a book edited by Sophie Nappert and Fernanda Carvalho Dias, just published by @Wolters_Kluwer: International Arbitration & Mediation.
The chapter examines the convergence of AI and decentralised justice, and how these technologies are redefining dispute resolution in the digital age.
In this text, we cover the full lifecycle of AI-assisted dispute resolution: how AI can streamline evidence preparation and protect confidentiality, how it "acted as a lawyer" helping level the playing field for users in Kleros's pilot with Argentine fintech @lemonapp_ar (90% retention rate, even in cases users lost), and what happens when LLMs actually sit in the jury box.
This last part involved empirical work. We ran ChatGPT 5, Claude Opus 4.1, DeepSeek v3.2, Mistral LeChat, and Gemini 2.5 Pro through 63 real Kleros cases.
Our conclusion isn't "AI wins" or "humans win." It's a hybrid architecture with AI courts for speed and scale, human panels for nuance, specialist courts for complex cases, and a general community court as the last line of defense against system attacks.
The chapter is available now on Kluwer Arbitration (subscription required), with the print edition coming later this year. 👇
kluwerarbitration.com/docume…
Really enjoyed working on this with everyone and it's an honour to have been published by Wolters Kluwer (print edition coming soon). How the space evolves is going to be interesting... Well it certainly won't be boring!
The question is not whether AI will replace human arbitrators. The real question is: which disputes should AI decide, which should go to decentralized juries, and which still require traditional adjudication?
This is the topic of "When Decentralised Justice Meets Artificial Intelligence: Law in the Age of Crowds and Code", a chapter @williamhwgeorge, @robertgdean, and I wrote for "AI and Arbitration", a book edited by Sophie Nappert and Fernanda Carvalho Dias, just published by @Wolters_Kluwer: International Arbitration & Mediation.
The chapter examines the convergence of AI and decentralised justice, and how these technologies are redefining dispute resolution in the digital age.
In this text, we cover the full lifecycle of AI-assisted dispute resolution: how AI can streamline evidence preparation and protect confidentiality, how it "acted as a lawyer" helping level the playing field for users in Kleros's pilot with Argentine fintech @lemonapp_ar (90% retention rate, even in cases users lost), and what happens when LLMs actually sit in the jury box.
This last part involved empirical work. We ran ChatGPT 5, Claude Opus 4.1, DeepSeek v3.2, Mistral LeChat, and Gemini 2.5 Pro through 63 real Kleros cases.
Our conclusion isn't "AI wins" or "humans win." It's a hybrid architecture with AI courts for speed and scale, human panels for nuance, specialist courts for complex cases, and a general community court as the last line of defense against system attacks.
The chapter is available now on Kluwer Arbitration (subscription required), with the print edition coming later this year. 👇
kluwerarbitration.com/docume…
Proud to have been serving as an RICS Assessor for the past 3 yrs.
It's been a privilege to contribute to the growth of our industry and uphold the standards that define the RICS community.
Here's to many more!
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Two years late, but 'on budget.' Is this engineering magic, or are the claims and disputes just being saved for the grand finale in 2027? 🤔💼
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Huge congratulations to my good friend Dr. Paresh Kathrani FRSA and the team at the London School of Innovation, earning degree-awarding powers from the Office for Students is no small feat, and doing it as an AI-native postgraduate institution is genuinely groundbreaking!
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The world is ready for the new Kleros tooling @federicoast
1/ @Kleros_io was recently discussed in the British Parliament in the context of stablecoins legislation.
The testimony was submitted by Arthur E. Wilmarth Jr. to the UK House of Lords' Financial Services Regulation Committee. 🇬🇧
A thread 👇
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