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The 'Vanishing Third Party': Access to Justice, Procedural Justice and Substantive Justice in the Age of Dispute Resolution Automation

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of us perceive the delivery of justice as a human task, courts and informal arenas worldwide are increasingly relying on online processes that employ algorithms in lieu of judges and mediators. Also, artificial intelligence is more commonly used to support and predict judicial outcomes. Together, these developments constitute dispute resolution automation (“DRA”). What is still a nascent phenomenon, accelerated by Covid-19, is certain to expand dramatically within and outside courts, as our backlogged justice system seeks to transform the inefficient resolution and adjudication of cases, and expand access to justice. Despite growth of DRA, our theories, concepts, and rules remain focused on the role of human third parties in reducing barriers to courts, generating perceptions of procedural fairness, and ensuring just outcomes. The implications of the “vanishing third party” on justice have yet to be recognized, studied, conceptualized, and theorized. This project will fill this gap by offering a new theory of access to justice (barriers), procedural justice (perceived fairness) and s

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