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Blockchain(s), Smart Contracts and Intellectual Property
The purpose of this chapter is to analyse to what extent the much talked about blockchain and smart contracts technology may contribute to a better...
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Smart Contracts and the Law
Smart contracts raise a number of interesting legal issues. An ongoing legal debate concerns a number of potential legal pitfalls related to smart...
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Freedom to Contract and Democracy in the Age of Blockchain and Smart Contracts
Blockchain is a disruptive technology whose impact can be felt within the international community and national societies. According to some scholars,...
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Blockchain and criminal law; the fundamentals
The broad adoption of blockchain and DLTs emphasizes the potential of a paradigm shift not only in the financial markets, but also in the modus...
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The Possibility of a Uniform Legal Language at the Interplay of Legal Discourse, Semiotics and Blockchain Networks
This paper explores the possibility of a standard legal language (e.g. English) for a principled evolution of law in line with technological...
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Do Smart Contracts Incur Higher Transaction Costs Than Traditional Contracts?
A smart contract is an agreement enforced by blockchain technology. It supposedly allows the parties involved to conduct transactions more...
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Der Einsatz von Smart Contracts zur Datennutzung
In diesem Kapitel werden die technischen Grundlagen der Blockchain-Technologie, deren Historie und die heute in der dritten Blockchain-Generation...
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International Law in The Era of Blockchain: Law Semiotics
Being built on the ground of mutual effect, facing the current state-isolation, international law is losing its grip on efficiency. This makes some...
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Blockchain and the Law: Setting the Floor
Blockchain and the law has over the past years become a field in which a multitude of developments have taken place, and the tendency is for that...
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Blockchain Execution of Judgements—A Possibility in South Africa?
Executing court orders via conventional methods in South Africa can be costly and time consuming. An alternative to the status quo could be...
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Regulating Blockchain, DLT and Smart Contracts: a technology regulator’s perspective
Blockchain, Smart Contracts and other forms of Distributed Ledger Technology provide means to ensure that processes are verifiable, transparent, and...
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The Potential of Blockchain Technology for Share Transfers in Non-listed Companies in Switzerland and the United Kingdom
Blockchain technology has attracted significant attention across various disciplines, including company law. This article examines the potential of...
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Blockchain and the Law Dogmatics and Dynamics
This book discusses the dogmatic (that what is settled) and the dynamic (that what is changing) aspects of the relationship between blockchain and...
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What Are the Limits of Blockchain? Considerations on the Use of Blockchain in Transitional Justice Processes
Blockchain technology has the capacity to change how people live, communicate with each other, acquire products, store information, and exchange...
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Formation of Contracts
The legal systems under consideration here hold that contracts are formed through a process of offer and acceptance. In order to determine whether or...
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Blockchain and Dynamic Consent
The pandemic has highlighted the importance of sharing biobank data and also the way in which blockchain technology could help facilitate this...
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Contract Automation from Telematic Agreements to Smart Contracts
Technology creates new opportunities for socio-economic relations, commercial exchange and overcoming national borders, allowing to conclude and...
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Smart Contracts in the Financial Sector: Fintech’s Prospects and Risks
The present study aims at analysing some aspects of “Smart contracts”, paying particular attention to their application perspectives in delicate...
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Blockchain, Smart Contracts and New Certainties: What Future for Notaries?
Blockchain, as every technology, follows rules, is not neutral, depends on human decisions, and sets rules to human actions. It presents some...
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Can Antitrust Trust Blockchain?
Although blockchain is decentralized by designed, today this technology is in practice in the hands of few corporations—antitrust can be crucial in...