Coursework

2 - Written assignment (including essay) - 75

1000 word researched report

1 - Report - 25

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<ul><li>The development of online courts and the models being followed, including online statements of case and online hearings.</li><li>Other online dispute resolution options, in particular, arbitration and mediation.</li><li>The extent to which technology can and should take over some elements of dispute resolution, such as proposing options or taking decisions. Could technology pose challenges in relation to privacy, data protection and security?</li><li>The development of national and international standards and oversight, including relevant bodies such as UNCITRAL.</li><li>Evaluating the benefits and drawbacks of online dispute resolution, including the perspectives of governments, courts, businesses, lawyers and parties to a dispute.</li><li>Critical evaluation of the implications of online dispute resolution for access to justice and the rule of law. Online processes may be quicker and more cost effective, but will they ensure legal rights are upheld?</li><li>Reimagining dispute resolution. In the light of the topics covered in the module, how should dispute resolution systems be designed and offered in the future? What are the potential benefits and threats?</li></ul>

Feedback is provided in a number of ways throughout your module. This includes feedback you receive during teaching from both peers and lecturers and that provided for formative assessment. Following an assessment, you will be given your marks and feedback in line with the assessment regulations and policy. More information on the timing and type of feedback that will be provided for each assessment will be available from the module leader. <a href='https://www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/about/governance/policies/student-policies-and-regulations'>https://www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/about/governance/policies/student-policies-and-regulations</a>

This module will support the development of all the graduate attributes. Your module leader will provide you with information about how your learning, teaching and assessment activities support your development of these attributes. The graduate attributes are: - Always learning - Engaged in the world - Technical and digital - Connected Professional - Creating Impact

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Self-directed - 

Dispute Resolution Journal 

Journal of International Dispute Settlement 

International Journal of Arbitration, Mediation and Dispute Management 

The National Center for Technology and Dispute Resolution

International Journal of Online Dispute Settlement 

Digital Mediation 

UNCITRAL working groups on online dispute resolution

Dispute Resolution 

Judges, Technology and Artificial Intelligence: The artificial judge 

Law, Technology and Dispute resolution: The privatisation of coercion 

Online Arbitration 

Digital Technology and Justice: Justice Apps 

Digital Justice: Technology and the internet of disputes 

Online Resolution of E-commerce Disputes: Perspectives from the EU, the UK and China 

The Cambridge Handbook of Lawyering in the Digital Age 

Online Courts and the Future of Justice 

The EU Regulation on Online Dispute Resolution, Regulation (EU No 524/2013)

Legal tech and the Future of Civil Justice 

The Cambridge Handbook of private law and artificial intelligence

The reasonable robot: Artificial intelligence and the law 

Dispute Resolution International 

Is law computable? Critical Perspectives on Law and Artificial Intelligence 

LMM192  - Online courts, Dispute Resolution and Access to Justice 

LMM192 

LMM192 -PRD2-ONL-ALV1

LMM192 -PRD2-HYB-ALV1

LMM192 -PRD2-PER-ALV1

Following the supportive and coherent blended learning design of this module, teaching will facilitate your learning and will help you develop a proper understanding of relevant legal knowledge of Online Courts, Dispute Resolution and Access to Justice. It will ensure that you are able to develop and demonstrate skills, as listed in the module learning outcomes.  
The module is taught through a series of lectures and seminars. In the lectures you will engage in depth with the core concepts and current issues relevant to your module. In seminars you will be expected to engage in discussions of topics, present legal arguments by yourself or as part of a group, and sometimes, to undertake skills-based work. Seminars have a maximum of 40 students and a minimum of 10. You will normally have a 1-hour lecture and 1-hour seminar per week for this module.  
Both lectures and seminars take place in a flexible environment where you will be supported with a clear week on week framework to guide you incrementally through the learning elements for this module. Your online material will include Your online material will include videos, reading materials and other text-based resources, with links to relevant websites and other resources, which are designed to help you prepare effectively for the relevant lecture and seminar. You will also have pre-reading and self-study tasks that will need to be completed each week, and you will be guided through those tasks by written or recorded instructions. All sessions are designed to be interactive and underpinned by realistic or real-life scenarios. These support your development of knowledge of substantive law, transferable skills, your practical understanding of the subject matter, and where relevant, aspects of the topic relevant to current legal practice.  
It is very important that you develop self-directed learning skills as these are an essential part of being able to study at master’s level.  
You will already have been asked to choose one of the three modes of learning available for this programme:
In-person means your class will normally be timetabled on campus face to face. 
Hybrid (synchronous): means you will join your classes at scheduled times via Microsoft Teams alongside students who will be on campus.
Online (asynchronous): means you will not attend or participate in live classes, instead you will watch recordings of all lectures and seminars, which will be uploaded to the virtual learning environment after the relevant class. 
Each mode of learning is fully supported by online blended learning materials.  You will find further information about the different modes of Learning in the Programme Specification. 
If you are an international student with a Student Visa to study in the UK, you will be required to attend classes in person on campus for the duration of the course.
Please also note that staff support will only be available between 9am – 7pm UK time.

In person: If you choose to study in person, your teaching pattern will be as set out below.
Hybrid (synchronous): If you choose to study hybrid, your 10 hours of lecture study and 10 hours of seminar study will not be held in person, it will be held synchronously online. Your self-directed study hours will remain the same.
Online (asynchronous): If you choose to study online, your 10 hours of lecture study and 10 hours of seminar study will not be held in person, it will be held asynchronously online. Your self-directed study hours will remain the same.

Online courts, Dispute Resolution and Access to Justice 

Communicate effectively both orally and in writing.

Skills

Deal with research materials ethically and appropriately, including correctly referencing the work of others.  

Values and attitudes

Use organisational and planning skills effectively.

Explain the importance of access to justice and the rule of law. 

Construct coherent and principled legal arguments in the specific areas of study. 

Develop skills as an independent learner to support your continuing academic and professional development using relevant primary and secondary to identify and address issues. 

Synthesise current problems, new insights, current research or advanced scholarship in the area. 

Knowledge

Find independently primary and secondary legal materials bearing on a defined problem using electronic sources.

Show respect for social values, including inclusivity and cultural awareness.

Apply law relating to the development of online courts and dispute resolution in a broad and detailed manner and to reach justified conclusions or judgements.

Analyse authorities, principles, policies and texts using a range of advised materials, with limited guidance, on defined problems.

Synthesise information using a limited range of advised materials, with guidance, on parts of the syllabus to develop and justify arguments.

Identify, compare and critically evaluate approaches to using technology an artificial intelligence to resolve legal disputes. 

Use technology and generative AI in an ethical and appropriate manner. 

Apply principles and policies relating to the development of online courts, dispute resolution and access to justice in a broad and detailed manner and to reach justified conclusions or judgements.

Formulate and evaluate arguments in relation to the use of technology and artificial intelligence to address legal disputes. 