ODR AND RESTORATIVE JUSTICE ONLINE: CLARIFYING CONCEPTS DUE TO ITS LEGAL IMPLICATIONS.

  • Department of Criminal Law and Department of Restorative Justice, School of Law, University Center of Baja California, Tijuana, Mexico.
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One of the fields in which the conflict management is developed is on the Internet where there is no doubt at all it becomes one of the most used tool to resolve conflict, regardless of the nature of the dispute, whether internet related or not. Disputes it is a fact life into the business, whether between buyers and sellers, manufacturers, and suppliers, administrator and governed, etc. But this field it is not the only one, the Online Dispute Resolution has a huge field in different settings. The aim of this article is to review the state of the restorative justice online practices, a further defines some concepts that must be clear when we think what Restorative Justice Online means as one discrete element in the field of ODR, and proposes certain parameters in order to successfully develop this practice in the judicial fields.


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Oscar Daniel Franco Conforti. (2018); ODR AND RESTORATIVE JUSTICE ONLINE: CLARIFYING CONCEPTS DUE TO ITS LEGAL IMPLICATIONS., Int. J. of Adv. Res., 6 (01), 850-857, ISSN 2320-5407. DOI URL: https://dx.doi.org/10.21474/IJAR01/6293


Oscar Daniel Franco Conforti
Centro Universitario de Baja California, Mexico and Universidad Oberta de Cataluña, Spain

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Article DOI: 10.21474/IJAR01/6293      
DOI URL: https://dx.doi.org/10.21474/IJAR01/6293