Digital disputes in the new legal reality

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The article presents the authors’ view on the ongoing changes in the process of resolving new “digital” disputes. The authors assess the global practice of resolving digital disputes through arbitration, as well as the new form of digital rights protection - blockchain arbitration. They analyze regulation of the new procedure for the protection of digital rights in foreign practice. The authors believe that the developed foreign experience in resolving smart contracts is progressive and effective. The findings of the research can be outlined as follows: 1) for the first time, special rules for resolving digital disputes have been formulated; they have been developed in tight cooperation of lawyers and IT specialists; 2) disputes from smart contracts and blockchain were isolated into a separate form of rights protection; 3) special approaches to settling digital disputes at the stage of concluding smart contracts have been worked out; 4) the process of enhancing the procedure for resolving digital disputes is ongoing.

About the authors

Ekaterina P. Rusakova

Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University)

Email: rusakova-ep@rudn.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-6488-0754

Doctor of Legal Sciences, Associate Professor of the Department of Civil Law and Procedural Law and Private International Law, Law Institute

6 Miklukho-Maklaya str., Moscow, 117198, Russia Federation

Evgenia E. Frolova

Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University); Far Eastern Federal University

Author for correspondence.
Email: frolova_ee@rudn.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-1852-0085

Doctor of Legal Sciences, Honored Lawyer of the Russian Federation, Full Professior, Head of the Department of Civil Law and Procedural Law and Private International Law, Law Institute, Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University); Full Professior of the Department of theory and history of state and law, Far Eastern Federal University

6 Miklukho-Maklaya str., Moscow, 117198, Russian Federation; 10, Ajax Bay, Vladivostok, Russky Island, 690922, Russian Federation

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