Some forms of crowdsourced dispute resolution currently exist online. These dispute resolution processes can be put into three general categories: Opinion polls, online mock juries, and privately enforced crowdsourced dispute resolution.

Can crowd arbitration do justice? It depends, of course, on the definition of justice. According to H.L.A. Hart in The Concept of Law, justice means having like cases being treated alike.

Do the benefits of time and cost savings make crowd arbitration a less reliable means of dispute resolution? In fact, the result is the opposite–having more people participate is actually likely to make the dispute resolution far more reliable and predictable than any other method.

Crowdsourcing is a potential source of substantial benefits to dispute resolution. The main reason for these benefits is that crowdsourcing easily pools together the views of a large amount of people, far more than could be collected into a single room for arbitration or a courtroom.