Nigeria Needs Legal Framework for AI-driven Dispute Resolution, Says Don

Nigeria needs a comprehensive legal framework to regulate Online Dispute Resolution (ODR) and the growing application of artificial intelligence (AI) in arbitration and mediation, Adjunct Professor of Arbitration and Law at the University of Ibadan, Tayo Bello has said.
According to him, the increasing integration of technology into dispute resolution had created fresh legal, ethical and institutional challenges that required urgent attention from policymakers and legal practitioners.
Bello in a paper titled “The Paths of Alternative Dispute Resolution and Information Technology: What Is More, and What Is Less?” delivered at Redeemer’s University, argued that although technology had t...