A New Paradigm for Technology-Assisted Future Legal Dispute Resolution: Intelligent Empowerment of Efficiency and Justice

In today's era of deep integration of globalization and digitalization, international legal disputes such as cross-border trade frictions and transnational intellectual property disputes are on the rise. Traditional dispute resolution models are confronted with multiple challenges including temporal and spatial barriers, differences in rules, and inefficiency. Against this backdrop, technology is emerging as a key force to break geographical boundaries, unify adjudication standards, and enhance dispute resolution efficiency, spawning a new paradigm for legal dispute resolution worldwide. From the EU's risk-based regulatory framework to China's cross-border smart arbitration, from the UN's global governance architecture to the ASEAN multilingual corpus support, technology is enabling fairness and justice to transcend national borders, achieving intelligent empowerment of both efficiency and justice.

Technology is reconstructing the process of cross-border dispute resolution, breaking temporal and spatial constraints as well as rule-based barriers. The upgraded smart platform of the International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission enables real-time data interconnection across three terminals—desktop and mobile—and supports Chinese-English bilingual switching. Overseas parties can register and use the platform directly without a domestic mobile phone number. By 2025, the platform has provided 6,331 online court hearing services to parties from 65 countries and regions, with online case filings accounting for half of the total case filings in 2024.

Countries' differentiated explorations have formed diverse paths for technology-enabled law, balancing innovation and risk prevention. The EU has established a risk-based classification and control system under the Artificial Intelligence Act, categorizing AI applications in the judicial field as high-risk, mandating full-life-cycle supervision and third-party certification, and preventing algorithmic bias through ethical reviews. The United States adopts a dual-track federal-state framework: at the federal level, executive orders promote the application of trustworthy AI; at the state level, Utah has established an AI disclosure system, while Colorado focuses on algorithmic discrimination governance, forming a pattern that emphasizes both flexible regulation and innovation incentives. The United Kingdom implements the principle of "proportionate regulation", dynamically assessing risks based on specific scenarios and promoting the mutual recognition of governance standards through international coordination mechanisms. China's Jilin and other regions have introduced AI legal service platforms, extending the inclusive value of technology-enabled law to grassroots communities through functions such as 24/7 online Q&A and customized legal documents, providing a people-centered practical model for global governance.

International collaborative governance has become a key pillar for the sustainable development of technology-enabled law. The United Nations has adopted a series of resolutions, setting the global governance tone of "safety, reliability and inclusiveness" for artificial intelligence, and calling on all countries to narrow the digital divide through technical assistance and data sharing, and enhance the discourse power of developing countries in governance. This concept of global collaboration is fully reflected in regional practices. The development of the "ASEAN Multilingual Corpus" is a joint achievement of judicial authorities and universities in Guangxi, providing standardized cross-border legal technology solutions for the China-ASEAN economic and trade circle. The international community has reached a broad consensus that the global development of technology-enabled law needs to balance technological innovation and risk prevention. It is necessary to eliminate governance barriers by unifying data security standards and algorithm interpretation rules, while respecting the judicial sovereignty and legal cultural differences of various countries to avoid technological hegemony.

The new paradigm of technology-assisted international legal dispute resolution is essentially the cross-border integration of technological innovation and the spirit of the rule of law. It is neither a replacement of justice by technology nor a simple tool upgrade, but an intelligent empowerment to optimize the allocation of global legal resources. With the improvement of the UN's global governance framework and the deepening of national practices, technology will further break the temporal and spatial constraints, rule-based barriers and resource gaps in cross-border dispute resolution. Adhering to the principle of "technology-assisted, human-oriented", and building an inclusive and accessible governance system through international coordination, this new paradigm will surely consolidate the legal foundation for global economic and trade cooperation, allowing the values of efficiency and justice to transcend national borders and benefit every market entity.