Machine Lawyering

David C. Donald - The Chinese University of Hong Kong -- My recent paper, "Smart Precision Finance for Small Businesses Funding," published in the European ...

Dr Eliza Mik - Centre for AI & Data Governance, Singapore Management University and Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology and Society, Tilburg University. --...

Smart contracts are often hyped as the technology that will change every single business model in our economy, ranging from finance and the settling of inter...

The structure of the patent system is a fundamental matter. The patent system confers exclusive rights upon inventions after an examination process concludes...

In a recent paper, I offer a new theory of smart contracts covering formation to enforcement. In particular, the paper makes two contributions: 1. contract-a...

In the rapidly developing cyber sphere of e-commerce and Fintech, dominated by cryptocurrencies and code, it is perhaps not uncommon for firms to focus on cu...

In our recent paper, “LApps: Technological, Legal and Market Potentials of Blockchain Lightning Network Applications” presented at a conference and published...

Coining the notion “Smart Contracts”, Nicholas Szabo assumed as reference the typical “vending machine” – automatically providing goods and services after an...

As goods move from producers to consumers, information about those goods must travel with them. Where did a product come from? Is this wine fake? How fresh i...

Blockchain technology promises to perform tasks that have traditionally been assigned to the law and the realm of legal institutions. Smart contracts create ...

In an ideal world, distributed ledger technology would allow completely decentralized and privately controlled booking of property rights and transaction rec...

In 2013, Carl Frey & Michael Osborne estimated that automation threatened the existence of nearly one in two jobs in the United States. Though lawyering was...