Machine Lawyering

Kevin Werbach - The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania -- Could cryptographically-secured computer code that automatically enforc...

Matthias Haentjens – Leiden Law School, The Netherlands; Tycho de Graaf – Leiden Law School, The Netherlands; Ilya Kokorin – Leiden Law S...

Charles W Mooney, Jr, University of Pennsylvania School of Law -- Publicly traded securities generally are held by investors in securitie...

Giesela Rühl - Friedrich Schiller University of Jena and Humboldt University of Berlin -- The law applicable to smart contracts is a negl...

Gian Domenico Mosco - Faculty of Law, Luiss University -- Artificial intelligence (“AI”), with its unbridled potential for processing and...

Jørgen Svennevik Notland - School of Entrepreneurship, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU); Jakob Svennevik Notland - D...

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

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

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

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

In a recent paper, I offer a new theory of smart contracts covering formation to enforcement. In particular, the paper makes two contribu...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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