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A landmark investigation into one of the most important trends at the interface of law and technology: the effort to harness emerging digital technologies to change the way that parties form and perform contracts.
List of contents
- 1: Jason Grant Allen: Wrapped and Stacked: 'Smart Contracts' and the Interaction of Natural and Formal Language
- 2: Sir Geoffrey Vos MR: End-to-End Smart Legal Contracts: Moving from Aspiration to Reality
- 3: Justice Aedit Abdullah, Yihan Goh: Making Smart Contracts a Reality: Confronting Definitions, Enforceability, and Regulation
- 4: Justice Stephen Estcourt AM: Smart Contracts and Dispute Resolution: Faster Horses or a New Car
- 5: Ian Grigg: Why the Ricardian Contract Came About: A Retrospective Dialogue with Lawyers
- 6: Alfonso Delgado Rius: Smart Contracts: Taxonomy, Transaction Costs, and Design Trade-offs
- 7: Natasha Blycha, Ariane Garside: Smart Legal Contracts: A Model for the Integration of Machine Capabilities and Contracts
- 8: Susannah Wilkinson, Jacques Giuffre: Six Levels of Contract Automation: Further Analysis of the Evolution to Smart Legal Contracts
- 9: Eric Tjong Tjin Tai: Smart Contracts as Execution Instead of Expression
- 10: Tian Xu: Smart Contracts: The Limits of Autonomous Performance
- 11: Robert Herian: Techno-Legal Supertoys: Smart Contracts and the Fetishization of Legal Certainty
- 12: Christopher Clack: Languages for Smart and Computable Contracts
- 13: Megan Ma: The Mathematisation of Legal Writing: The Next Contract Language?
- 14: David Koepsell: Beyond Human: Smart Contracts, Smart-Machines, and Documentality
- 15: Siegfried Fina, Irene Ng: Smart Contract 'Drafting' and the Homogenisation of Languages
- 16: Scott Farrell, Hannah Glass, Henry Wells: Practice Makes... Pragmatic: Designing a Practical Smart Contract Legal Architecture
- 17: Josh Butler, Madeleine Maslin: Lawyer Meets Developer: How Interdisciplinary Collaboration Builds Smarter Legal Contracts
- 18: Gabrielle Golding, Mark Giancasparo: Not Up to the Job: Why Smart Contracts are Unsuitable for Employment
- 19: Simon Gleeson: The Legal Consequences of Automated Mistake
- 20: Charlie Morgan, Dorothy Livingston, Andrew Moir: Dispute Resolution Fit for the Digital Economy: DLT an Additional Catalyst for ODR?
About the author
J.G. Allen is a Senior Research Fellow at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. He works on the legal impacts of emerging technologies. He has consulted for public and private bodies, is a member of current UNIDROIT and UNCITRAL working groups on novel technologies, and is Tasmanian chapter chair of the Australian Society of Computers and Law. His recent work on smart contracts, cryptoassets, artificial intelligence, and Internet jurisdiction has been published in leading international journals and handbooks. Jason read law at the University of Tasmania, Universität Augsburg, and Cambridge University, the latter as a Poynton Scholar.
P.G. Hunn is a member of the UK Jurisdiction Taskforce chaired by Sir Geoffrey Vos, Master of the Rolls. He founded the Linux Foundation's Accord Project and convenes national and international standards initiatives on computable contracts. He read law at the University of Cambridge and University of Bristol.
Summary
A landmark investigation into one of the most important trends at the interface of law and technology: the effort to harness emerging digital technologies to change the way that parties form and perform contracts.
