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05 Mar 2018

ICYMI – 2nd Annual OBLB Conference on ‘The Law of Autonomous Systems and the Automation of Law’

OBLB Editors

The 2nd Annual Conference of the Oxford Business Law Blog will bring together practitioners and researchers to discuss emerging issues in the field of law and artificial intelligence. The conference...

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  • Commercial Law
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13 Feb 2018

Blockchains and the GDPR

Michèle Finck

Blockchains and the GDPR The imminent entry into force of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) coincides with pronounced hype surrounding blockchains as a new method of data storage and...

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03 Jan 2018

Crypto-Securities Regulation: ICOs, Token Sales and Cryptocurrencies under EU Financial Law

Philipp Hacker | Chris Thomale

Cryptocurrencies, such as bitcoin and ethereum, have not only risen to public attention as novel means of payments. Rather, as we explain in a recent article, the current hype is fueled by financial...

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  • Commercial Law
19 Dec 2017

Legal Tech: The Era of Bad Ideas

Zachary Korman

Legal technology is starting to attract serious attention. Just a few years ago, when I was still in law school, talking to a lawyer or professor about legal tech was like pulling teeth. Maybe it was...

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  • Corporate Governance
22 Aug 2017

Blockchain and Smart Contracting Tech for Modern Shareholder Involvement

Christoph Van der Elst | Anne Lafarre

Annual General Meetings (AGMs) are considered dull mandatory yearly rituals that provide entertainment to some small shareholders, but, above all, cause many business lawyers and executive officers a...

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  • Corporate Governance
18 Aug 2017

Corporate Governance for Complex Cryptocurrencies

Philipp Hacker

The Bitcoin blockchain has just forked into two rivaling chains; the same split happened to the Ethereum blockchain after its hard fork of July 2016. The development of these, and other,...

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  • Commercial Law
14 Jul 2017

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
13 Jul 2017

Cryptotransaction Dispute Resolution

Wulf A 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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05 May 2017

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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24 Apr 2017

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
07 Mar 2017

Smart Contracts

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
12 Jan 2017

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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12 Jul 2016
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Artificial Intelligence versus Human Nature: Protecting Ourselves from the Perils of DAO-based Collective Investment Schemes

Dan Awrey

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
11 Jul 2016

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
23 May 2016

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...

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