Providing Law Students with Intelligent Tools for Structuring and Systematizing Alternative Dispute Resolution in Learning Systems

Resumo

Resumo: The aim of this paper is to propose a computer-generated methodology to assist law students to practice mediation in an alternative dispute resolution class. The approach’s strategy is to structure and to systematize parties’ discourses providing the learner capabilities to clarify semantic inconsistencies, to clean speech contradictions, and to identify gaps and ambiguities. The learner can explore the ill-defined domains in a constructivist manner by classifying and distinguishing concepts, reasoning logically, elaborating hypotheses and inquiries. A case study was performed from a hypothetical conflict situation related to a commercial dispute.

Abstract: The aim of this paper is to propose a computer-generated methodology to assist law students to practice mediation in an alternative dispute resolution class. The approach’s strategy is to structure and to systematize parties’ discourses providing the learner capabilities to clarify semantic inconsistencies, to clean speech contradictions, and to identify gaps and ambiguities. The learner can explore the ill-defined domains in a constructivist manner by classifying and distinguishing concepts, reasoning logically, elaborating hypotheses and inquiries. A case study was performed from a hypothetical conflict situation related to a commercial dispute.