THE ENFORCEMENT OF MULTI-TIERED DISPUTE RESOLUTION CLAUSES IN INTERNATIONAL CONTRACTS
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Multi-tiered dispute resolution clauses encourage parties to seek a consensual solution to contractual disputes, while providing a binding dispute resolution process such as arbitration as a backstop. However, these clauses raise important enforcement issues. Although at common law it has been held that agreements to negotiate are unenforceable, a good case can be made for distinguishing ADR clauses requiring negotiations and mediation from unenforceable agreements to agree. While the matter involve negotiations to settle the terms of a contract, the former require the parties to participate in a defined process regardless of the outcome. Few Canadian courts have considered what remedies may be available for failing to comply with the initial steps of a multi-tiered ADR clause, or indeed the question of whether the arbitral tribunal rather than the court should decide enforceability and compliance issues. In such circumstances, appropriate drafting is imperative for such clauses to be effective .
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it