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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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AI-Powered Contracts: a Critical Analysis
Artificial Intelligence (AI) applied to the legal domain is gaining ground. AI is argued to be particularly helpful with labour-intensive activities...
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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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Legal Agreements on Smart Contract Platforms in European Systems of Private Law
Blockchains and smart contracts are emerging technologies that pose unique challenges for legal systems. This book outlines the extent to which these...
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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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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...
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Integrating Smart Contracts with the Legacy Legal System: A US Perspective
Contracts help to solve some of the basic challenges of cooperation for humans. One of the insights of economics, since the time of Adam Smith, is...