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Self-Driving Contracts

Anthony Niblett | Anthony Casey

Predictive capabilities created by big data and artificial intelligence increasingly allow parties to draft contracts that fill their own gaps and interpret their own standards without adjudication...

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Commercial Law

Cryptotransaction Dispute Resolution

Wulf Kaal | Craig Calcaterra

The increasing separation of physical and virtual identities driven by anonymity in the crypto-economy challenges the existing jurisdictional means over virtual transactions involving blockchain...

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2016-2017 Oxford Business Law Blog Round-Up: Most Read Opinion Pieces

John Armour, Faculty of Law | Horst Eidenmüller, St Hugh's College | Pavlos Eleftheriadis, Mansfield College | Luca Enriques, Faculty of Law | Ariel Ezrachi, Pembroke College | Cheng Lim | Bruno Meyerhof Salama | Calum Sargeant | TJ Saw | Maurice Stucke, Institute of European and Comparative Law

On 14 March 2017, the Oxford Business Law Blog ('OBLB') marked its first anniversary. One year ago, we set out to create a leading and truly international forum for the exchange of ideas and...

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How Blockchain Technology Will Impact the Digital Economy

Christian Catalini

The Platform of the Future? The survival of any organization depends on its ability to outperform competitors and marketplaces in attracting and rewarding talent, ideas and capital. As communication...

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Commercial Law

Smart Contracts

Sarah Green, St Hilda's College

Interest in ‘smart contracts’ has exploded in the past few months. These are agreements written using computer code which self-execute in ‘distributed ledger’ networks. A distributed ledger, or ‘...

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Financial Regulation

Blockchain, Smart Contracts and DAOs from a Legal Perspective

Wardyński & Partners

When we were writing our report on virtual currencies two years ago, we had the impression that we had hit on a topic that would revolutionise the economy and the law. Time has shown that it was just...

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Artificial Intelligence versus Human Nature: Protecting Ourselves from the Perils of DAO-based Collective Investment Schemes

Dan Awrey, Faculty of Law

If you believe the Fintech Intelligentsia, there is a revolution coming to the financial services industry. This revolution will not be led by PayPal, or Alibaba, or SoFi – or any of the other...

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Commercial Law

Smart Contracts: Bridging the Gap Between Expectation and Reality

Cheng Lim | TJ Saw | Calum Sargeant

There has been an explosion of interest in ‘smart contracts’ and blockchain technology over the past two years, with software developers, financial institutions, regulators, and law firms rushing in...

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Commercial Law

Smart Contracts: the Next Frontier?

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer

This post comes to us from Andy Robinson and Tom Hingley from Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP. Before email (we are reliably informed), contracts would be posted, received, marked-up, re-posted...