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The Arbiter Protocol
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Recent Briefings
Today on The Arbiter Protocol: Brazil and Japan reset their digital procedural floors on the same day, the EU's long-delayed high-risk AI guidelines open for consultation against an August transparenc…
Today on The Arbiter Protocol: the EU Commission opens consultation on what 'high-risk AI' actually means in practice, Italian legaltech Lexroom posts a $50M referendum on civil-law-native legal AI, a…
Today on The Arbiter Protocol: the EU AI Act's Omnibus delay is now producing second-order effects worth watching — healthcare AI exits, tightened Article 50 guidelines, and fresh empirical work on ho…
Today on The Arbiter Protocol: institutional legitimacy is the through-line — Achmea reasoning seeping into commercial arbitration, India rejecting a PCA award, Spain's bar making AI-delegation a disc…
Today on The Arbiter Protocol: institutions are starting to ask what they're actually for. The LCIA's director general rethinks the role of arbitral bodies, Malaysia drafts a tiered AI duty-of-care wi…
Today on The Arbiter Protocol: the EU's Article 50 guidelines and the Omnibus delay reshape what 'August 2026' actually means, Saudi Arabia's PDPL moves from text to fines, and a sharp UK essay refram…
Today on The Arbiter Protocol: governance frameworks that exist on paper but fail in practice — an AAA survey puts hard numbers on the gap, Ireland's rights commission flags the same problem in regula…
Today on The Arbiter Protocol: civil-law jurisdictions are operationalizing algorithmic accountability — Council of Europe Convention in the Official Journal, Spain's auditor-access mandate, Quebec's …
Today on The Arbiter Protocol: opacity drift in algorithmic credit, the EU's first real interpretive pass at Article 50 transparency, sanctions reshaping arbitration doctrine, and a Peruvian legaltech…
Today on The Arbiter Protocol: the EU AI Act delay is being framed as relief, but the more honest reading is that the original framework was unworkable for everyone trying to comply in good faith. Els…