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NFT and Blockchain Technology for a Sustainable Future of Cultural Heritage
As our world shifted online when the global pandemic hit, crypto art crystalized the boom of non-fungible token (NFT) with record-high auctioned...
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A Comparative Study of Blockchain and Cryptocurrency Regulations Between Western Australian and Albertan (Canada) Legislation
A blockchain is a sort of database. A blockchain is essentially a network of computer systems that have duplicated and disseminated a digital record...
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Smart (Legal) Contracts, or: Which (Contract) Law for Smart Contracts?
The law applicable to smart contracts is a neglected topic. At times it is even discarded as irrelevant or unnecessary. In fact, many authors claim...
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Smart Contracts and Comparative Law A Western Perspective
The book analyzes the most relevant developments in the relation between contracts and technology, from automatically concluded contracts to today's...
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Smart Contracts: Legal Issues and First Regulatory Approaches
In recent years, the development of distributed ledger technologies and in particular of Blockchain technology is making it possible the drafting and...
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Social Order through Contracts A Study of the Qingshui River Manuscripts
This book is the first Western-language monograph on the study of the Qingshui River manuscripts. By examining over 3,000 contracts and other...
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Smart Contracts in the Civil Law Countries: The Legislative Analysis and Regulation Perspectives
Lawmakers and theorists around the world are debating the need for a new set of rules to support transactions in a distributed ledger. It is...
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Evolving Regulatory Frameworks: Blockchain as a Form of Trust—Comparative Evidence
Firms and governments are interested in regulatory experiments in order to minimise compliance costs and improve business and regulatory efficiency....
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The Functioning Mechanism of Contracts in the Society
This chapter tries to unveil the functioning mechanism of contracts in the society of the Qingshui River region during the Qing period, interpreting...
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Decentralized Blockchain Technology: Towards a Trusted and Transparent Beneficial Ownership Regime
This chapter offers an insight into emerging blockchain technology and explores how it might support a trusted and transparent beneficial ownership...
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Blockchain, Law and Governance: General Conclusion
This volume allows us to draw in and consider multiple perspectives, including from regulators, miners, blockchain lawyers, privacy advocates,...
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Blockchain and Comparative Law
The chapter contains a preliminary exploration of the notion and functioning of blockchain technology (hereinafter ‘blockchain’) in the light of...
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Elements, Pathologies, and Remedies of Smart Contracts
The structural characteristics and application peculiarities of smart contracts are reflected in the elements, pathologies and remedies applicable to...
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Some Reflections on the Nature of Decentralized (Autonomous) Organizations
Blockchain technology allows the creation of software-based organizations that can interact with third parties by deterministically executing...
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The Role of the Court of Justice of the European Union on the Interpretation of Platform Operators and Business Users’ Contracts
This chapter sheds lights on the commercial contracts of platform operators with their business users offering goods and services. It first analyzes...
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Das „Blockchain-Gesetz“ in Liechtenstein
Für Unternehmen im Finanztechnologiebereich hat sich das Fürstentum Liechtenstein in den letzten Jahren als attraktiver Standort erwiesen: Den Zugang...
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Tokenization of the Creative Industries: The Intersection Between Emerging Technologies and Sustainability
The chapter is devoted to analyzing the situation with the attraction of private investments in the creative industries for the Sustainable...
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Smart (Legal) Contracts: Forum and Applicable Law Issues
Smart contracts represent an uncertain instrument, both from a technological and from a legal standpoint, and any analysis thereof requires an...
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Introduction: Contract Automation and “Smart Contracts” in Comparative Law
The incessant development and ubiquitous diffusion of information and communication technologies give rise to phenomena of considerable...