A week of Chaos
I’ve been a bit quiet on the blog in the past couple weeks, mostly because smart contracts are heating up! I got into smart contracts because I see in the technology a way to change the world for the better. Read More …
Guest Post: What Is Disruptive Law?
I asked authors Samir Patel and Dan Elliott to share their great article on the nature of disruption in law. Enjoy! What is “Disruptive” Law? Discussion of ideas is commonplace in Entrepreneurial Lawyering (EL) class. In EL, we are using Read More …
Smart contract leases #2 – a fact pattern
Lawyers like to use fact patterns to explore a legal question because application of legal logic to facts is more useful than a discussion of law in the abstract. For smart contract leases, I’ve started with a finite business application Read More …
Smart contract blockchain leases: vital and tricky
Smart contract leases are an important use case for distributed ledger, blockchain and internet-of-things business. It’s important that companies considering leases in blockchain commerce understand the legal context of their use cases so that in the event of a smart Read More …
Patterns in sewing, machines, law, code and learning
A couple years ago I taught myself to sew. I’d always found sewing machines to be unforgiving, dangerous beasts. I decided to get over my sewing hangup because I had some ideas I wanted to bring to life, cute dresses Read More …
Smart Contracts: Blockchain Value Generators
Virtual currency is a high-profile iteration of blockchain technology, but the strength of the technology lies in the data and relationships created in blockchain systems. The reason it is possible to integrate cryptography and decentralization into a currency is because Read More …
Soft Legal Code: Tools for Blockchain Smart Contracts
The question of law in blockchain-based systems is important and sometimes controversial. Many participants in the virtual currency and blockchain marketplace, from individuals to large banks, agree that top-down regulation would be a crippling mistake. Individuals, decentralized autonomous organizations and Read More …
Blockchain potential for driverless cars
On January 4, GM tweeted news of its collaboration with Lyft to create self-driving vehicles. This announcement came as the industry was awaiting Ford and Google to announce a partnership for self-driving vehicles this week. Both of these projects promise ripe Read More …
Smart Contracts as a Vehicle for Consumer Finance
Smart Contracts: A Vehicle for Consumer Collections, Private Dispute Resolution and Public Litigation Efficiency Nina Gunther Kilbride Abstract. The certainty of smart contracts data in decentralized blockchain technology combined with an ability to apply mathematical functions to the data opens Read More …
Legal Consistency in Cryptocurrency
Reprint of an article I wrote for cryptocoinsnews.com. For those looking to participate in crypto-commerce, uncertainty about how the law will treat virtual currency transactions can be a stumbling block. Because virtual coins are permissionless innovation, commerce and its rules Read More …