End of the third leg of the Decentralised Justice Tour UK 2026!
Today, with @williamhwgeorge we hosted a workshop at The University of Edinburgh: “Algorithms, Incentives, and the Law: Building the Justice Infrastructure for the Era of AI.” 🏴
In the home of the Scottish Enlightenment, we presented in front of researchers in law, computer science and economics.
Our talk today was mostly focused on the increasing interactions between decentralised justice and artificial intelligence, which is at the core of our current research.
Some of the questions we addressed: who resolves disputes in a world where commerce is mostly conducted between autonomous agents? How can decentralised mechanisms help resolve biases in AI models?
Many thanks to Morshed Mannan and the Edinburgh Law School for the invitation and the fascinating discussion!
End of the third leg of the Decentralised Justice Tour UK 2026!
Today, with @williamhwgeorge we hosted a workshop at The University of Edinburgh: “Algorithms, Incentives, and the Law: Building the Justice Infrastructure for the Era of AI.” 🏴
In the home of the Scottish Enlightenment, we presented in front of researchers in law, computer science and economics.
Our talk today was mostly focused on the increasing interactions between decentralised justice and artificial intelligence, which is at the core of our current research.
Some of the questions we addressed: who resolves disputes in a world where commerce is mostly conducted between autonomous agents? How can decentralised mechanisms help resolve biases in AI models?
Many thanks to Morshed Mannan and the Edinburgh Law School for the invitation and the fascinating discussion!
"'i think we are getting close to intelligent machines. but they're showing the necessary weaknesses of intelligent beings.' he said this in 1985"
We might still be about this close.
Webinar completo acá, desde el momento de la cita:
https://t.co/a31dgC8WNm
Si tu empresa o institución está explorando estos mecanismos para sus disputas, podés escribirnos en https://t.co/4fBEdCHSWS.
⚖️ El Poder Judicial de Mendoza está probando jurados descentralizados en casos reales, y la jueza a cargo del piloto no destaca lo que uno esperaría:
"La primera característica, la más importante, no sería el tiempo, sino la legitimidad."
Habla la Dra. María Fernanda Díaz, titular del Juzgado de Paz y Contravencional de Lavalle, en el webinar de Kleros sobre Justicia Descentralizada. En la misma charla deja otra idea que se queda con uno: pensar cómo van a resolver sus conflictos las próximas generaciones no es un ejercicio a diez años, porque esos conflictos ya están llegando, el mes que viene.
Link al webinar completo en el primer comentario.
💼 Case #141 at the Corte de Defensores del Cliente (Kleros 2.0, Junín, Argentina).
A consumer against a dealership and an automaker over a pickup truck under factory warranty.
The respondents argue the failure was caused by the fuel used; the consumer invokes the warranty.
AR$6.04M in dispute. Five certified jurors are deliberating.
Full webinar here, starting right at the question: https://t.co/qf2FBrBiMX
If your company or institution is exploring these mechanisms for its disputes, reach out at https://t.co/DqS3BBZaqz.
🇦🇷 The Judiciary of Mendoza, Argentina, is testing decentralized juries on real cases, and the judge leading the pilot doesn't highlight what you'd expect:
"The first characteristic, the most important one, wouldn't be time, but legitimacy."
That's Judge María Fernanda Díaz, head of the Justice of the Peace Court of Lavalle, speaking at the Kleros webinar on Decentralized Justice. In the same conversation she leaves another idea that stays with you: thinking about how the next generations will resolve their conflicts is not a ten-year exercise, because those conflicts are already arriving, next month.
Link to the full webinar in the first comment.
🔮Kleros Foresight: Round 1 Recap + Round 2
113 traders priced 16 films to predict our CTO's movie ratings before he watched them. The prediction market came closer than ChatGPT and Criticker's own algo.
Round 2 is live, films picked by @clesaege himself this time ↓
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!
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!
Federico Ast of Kleros at Oxford -
• rise of decentralized justice systems
• digital juries
• models for fast-moving disputes
"The questions raised in that room about fairness, automation, law, and limits of algo governance are no longer theoretical. They are live."
Tomorrow is the last stage of the Decentralised Justice Tour UK 2026! 🇬🇧
After our conference at Oxford, we will be presenting with William George at the University of Edinburgh. 🏴
A unique opportunity to learn about the future of law and how AI and blockchain are transforming legal systems as we know them.
See you!