AAA Launches Specialist Panel for Blockchain and Digital-Asset Disputes

The American Arbitration Association (AAA) has launched a specialist panel for blockchain and digital-asset cases, giving companies access to arbitrators with expertise in the technical and legal complexities of crypto disputes.

The new Web3 Panel brings together arbitrators with experience across law, technology, academia, litigation, and digital-asset businesses. This includes lawyers specializing in digital-asset and technology disputes, University of Pennsylvania law professor David Hoffman, and Rich Widmann, Google Cloud's global head of Web3 strategy.

The panel is designed to address disputes arising from increasingly automated and decentralized commercial systems, including disagreements over contract interpretation, governance, asset control, cybersecurity, transaction records, and cross-border enforcement.