Celebrating Five Years of ArbTech
Over the past five years, ArbTech has grown into a global platform exploring how emerging technologies are reshaping legal systems, arbitration, and the future of dispute resolution.
What started as a space for cross-disciplinary dialogue has evolved into a widely followed knowledge platform featuring practitioners, academics, technologists, founders, institutions, and policymakers from around the world.
Through its articles, podcast discussions, collaborations, events, and deep-dive guides, ArbTech has explored topics including:
• AI in arbitration and legal practice
• Digital assets, blockchain disputes, and smart contracts
• DAOs, DeFi governance, and Web3 disputes
• Constitutional and agentic AI
• Ethics, governance, and regulation of legal AI
• AI-assisted decision-making and due process
• Online dispute resolution and legal system design
• NFTs, tokenisation, crypto tracing, and cybersecurity
Over the years, ArbTech has published a growing library of practitioner-focused resources, including its widely referenced guides on and, alongside commentary on emerging developments shaping dispute resolution globally.
The platform has also become known for spotlighting conversations that sit slightly ahead of the curve — from the practical implications of generative AI in arbitration to questions surrounding transparency, explainability, bias, and human oversight in legal AI systems.
In addition to publishing, ArbTech has actively contributed to innovation initiatives across the legal sector.
In 2024, ArbTech co-organised the first-ever arbitration hackathon alongside Jus Mundi, co-hosted by ICC UK and Simmons & Simmons in London. In 2025, this continued through collaborations including the AAA / Wolters Kluwer Hackathon in The Hague and the OxAI Hackathon at Pembroke College, University of Oxford.
The launch of in 2025 also marked an important step in supporting emerging legal technology providers building practical tools for lawyers, arbitrators, and institutions.
Alongside this, ArbTech’s podcast series ‘Disputes Decoded’ has featured discussions with leading voices across arbitration, AI, blockchain governance, legal innovation, and online dispute resolution — helping make complex developments more accessible to a wider audience.
As technology continues to transform the legal profession, ArbTech remains focused on creating a space for informed discussion, collaboration, and forward-looking analysis.
