Decentralized Autonomous Organizations in the Legal Landscape: From Decentralized Governance to Legal Frontiers

Name: Decentralized Autonomous Organizations in the Legal Landscape: From Decentralized Governance to Legal Frontiers
Brand: Edward Elgar Publishing
SKU: 9781035341610
Price: 1765.40 HKD
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Author: Florence Guillaume; Sven Riva
ISBN: 9781035341610

Edited by Florence Guillaume · Sven Riva

Edward Elgar Publishing June 2025

Specifications

ISBN-13: 9781035341610
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Publication: June 2025
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

Details

This forward-looking book examines the concept and legal status of Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs). Based on blockchain technology, DAOs disrupt traditional thinking around corporate structure and organizational governance. This book explores the challenges posed by DAOs in both technological and legal perspectives and discuss how they are regulated across Europe and the USA.

Decentralized Autonomous Organizations in the Legal Landscape positions DAOs as the intersection between blockchain technology, legalities and company management. Chapters explore the law and regulation of DAOs across Europe and the USA, revealing which regions allow them to operate with the fewest restrictions. Adopting a multidisciplinary approach, leading experts analyze the role of the financial sector in the regulation of DAOs, considering how the digital and managerial structures of these organizations push entrepreneurial boundaries. The book engages with themes of autonomy and societal norms whilst providing a thought-provoking analysis of the role of artificial intelligence in innovating DAOs.

This insightful book is essential for legal professionals, researchers and policymakers engaging with DAO legislation and blockchain technology. Students and academics in law and technology, corporate law and organizational studies will also find this book to be a valuable resource.

Preface; INTRODUCTION 1; 1.
Adapting the Legal Landscape for DAOs 2: Florence Guillaume; PART I DEFINING DECENTRALIZED AUTONOMOUS ORGANIZATIONS (DAOS); 2.
Notion of DAO: transforming digital code into a legal entity 20: Florence Guillaume; 3.
Connecting worlds: reconciling DAOs and traditional organizations for better collective governance 53: Anne-Grace Kleczewski; 4.
The quest for appropriate regulation of DAOs 73: Sabine Van Haecke Lepic; 5.
The DAO between the Nation-State and the Network State 94: Filippo Zatti; PART II LEGAL CHALLENGES AND THE SWISS REGULATORY LANDSCAPE FOR DECENTRALIZED AUTONOMOUS ORGANIZATIONS (DAOS); 6.
The DAO: from the first big cryptocurrency craze to a new era of legal frameworks 113: Florence Guillaume and Sven Riva; 7.
Is there a need for regulation of DAOs in Switzerland? 143: Rolf H. Weber; 8.
Incorporating DAOs in Switzerland 162: Michael Kunz and Kiril R. R. Haslebacher; 9.
Why DAOs choose Switzerland 182: Liburn Mehmetaj; PART III NAVIGATING DECENTRALIZED AUTONOMOUS ORGANIZATIONS (DAOS) WITHIN THE EUROPEAN UNION LEGAL FRAMEWORK; 10.
The regulation of DAOs from a French perspective 195: Marina Teller; 11.
DAOs under Portuguese Law: Current Framework and Perspectives for Future Regulation 211: António Garcia Rolo; 12.
The regulation of DAOs from a German perspective 228: Anja von Rosenstiel; 13.
Towards a European legal form for DAOs? 255: Florian Möslein and Daniel Ostrovski; 14.
DAOs and innovative regulation: reconciling corporate and blockchain-based organizational models 275: Madalena Perestrelo de Oliveira; PART IV THE DEGREES OF DECENTRALIZATION IN DECENTRALIZED AUTONOMOUS ORGANIZATIONS (DAOS); 15.
Managing cross-border DeFi DAOs in the EU: legal complexities and regulatory perspectives 293: Biyan Mienert; 16.
A DAO regulatory mapping with application to a contestable control approach to DAO governance 311: Jeff Strnad; 17.
Integrating decentralized finance mechanisms with DAOs:decentralized exchanges between liquidity and autonomous governance 328: Claude Humbel; PART V THE FUTURE OF DECENTRALIZED AUTONOMOUS ORGANIZATIONS (DAOS); 18.
AI-driven DAOs 348: Ori Shimony; 19.
DAOs by example 373: Joshua Tan