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Smart Legal Contracts: Computable Law in Theory and Practice

Smart Legal Contracts: Computable Law in Theory and Practice

Author: Jason Allen; Peter Hunn
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780192858467
Published In: April 2022
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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Smart Legal Contracts: Computable Law in Theory and Practice is a landmark investigation into one of the most important trends at the interface of law and technology: the effort to harness emerging digital technologies to change the way that parties form and perform contracts. While developments in distributed ledger technology have brought the topic of 'smart contracts' into the mainstream of legal attention, this volume takes a broader approach to ask how computers can be used in the contracting process.

This book assesses how contractual promises are expressed in software and how code-based artefacts can be incorporated within more conventional legal structures. With incisive contributions from members of the judiciary, legal scholars, practitioners, and computer scientists, this book sets out to frame the borders of an emerging area of law and start a more productive dialogue between the various disciplines involved in the evolution of contracts as software. It provides the first step towards a more disciplined approach to computational contracts that avoids the techno-legal ambiguities of 'smart contracts' and reveals an emerging taxonomy of approaches to encoding contracts in whole or in part. Conceived and written during a time when major legal systems began to engage with the advent of contracts in computable form, and aimed at a fundamental level of enquiry, this collection will provide essential insight into future trends and will provide a point of orientation for future scholarship and innovation.

1:Wrapped and Stacked: 'Smart Contracts' and the Interaction of Natural and Formal Language

Jason Grant Allen

2:End-to-End Smart Legal Contracts: Moving from Aspiration to Reality

Sir Geoffrey Vos MR

3:Making Smart Contracts a Reality: Confronting Definitions, Enforceability, and Regulation

Justice Aedit Abdullah, Yihan Goh

4:Smart Contracts and Dispute Resolution: Faster Horses or a New Car

Justice Stephen Estcourt AM

5:Why the Ricardian Contract Came About: A Retrospective Dialogue with Lawyers

Ian Grigg

6:Smart Contracts: Taxonomy, Transaction Costs, and Design Trade-offs

Alfonso Delgado Rius