E-commerce offers immense challenges to traditional dispute resolution methods, as it entails parties often located in different parts of the world making contracts with each other at the click of a mouse. The use of traditional litigation for disputes arising in this forum is often inconvenient, impractical, time-consuming and expensive due to the low value of the transactions and the physical distance between the parties. Thus modern legal systems face a crucial choice: either to adopt traditional dispute resolution methods that have served the legal systems well for hundreds of years or to find new methods which are better suited to a world not anchored in territorial borders.

电子商务对传统的争端解决方法提出了巨大挑战，因为它需要经常位于世界不同地区的当事方在点击鼠标时彼此签订合同。由于交易价值较低以及当事人之间的距离较远，使用传统诉讼解决在本法院发生的纠纷往往不方便、不切实际、耗时且成本高昂。因此，现代法律制度面临着一个关键的选择：要么采用数百年来一直为法律制度服务的传统争端解决方法，要么寻找更适合不以领土为边界的世界的新方法。