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Editors' Introduction |
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1 Wrapped and Stacked: 'Smart Contracts' and the Interaction of Natural and Formal Language |
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B What is a 'Smart Contract'? |
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C Is a Smart Contract Really a 'Contract'? |
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D Smart Contracts and Conventional Contract Law |
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2 End-to-End Smart Legal Contracts: Moving from Aspiration to Reality |
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56 | (2) |
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D A Preliminary Issue: Property in English Law |
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E Current Developments in English Law |
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F What Can be Done Once Any Legal Impediments to the Use of Smart Contracts Have Been Identified? |
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G Further Questions About Smart, Legally Enforceable Contracts |
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H An Inbuilt Dispute Resolution System for Smart Contracts |
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3 Making Smart Contracts a Reality: Confronting Definitions, Enforceability, and Regulation |
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B The Definitional Debate: What is a 'Smart Contract'? |
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C The Enforceability of Smart Contracts |
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D The Statutory Regulation of Smart Contracts |
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4 Smart Contracts and Dispute Resolution: Faster Horses or a New Car? |
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B Smart Legal Contracts and Dispute Resolution |
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80 | (5) |
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5 Why the Ricardian Contract Came About: A Retrospective Dialogue with Lawyers |
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88 | (19) |
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B The Origins of the 'Riccy' |
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C The War of the Wordsmiths |
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D Random Experiences on the Ricardian Journey |
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E Enter 'Smart Contracts' |
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6 Smart Contracts: Taxonomy, Transaction Costs, and Design Trade-offs |
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Alfonso Delgado De Molina Rius |
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107 | (2) |
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C Smart Contracts and Contract Law: A Transaction Costs Approach |
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7 A Model for the Integration of Machine Capabilities into Contracts |
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B Grounding the SLC Concept-The Space Ship Scenario |
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C The SLC Model-Foundational Components |
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D The SLC Model Drafting Principles |
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157 | (8) |
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165 | (10) |
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H The Legal Status of Automated Contract Performance |
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I The Legal Void of the Digital Economy |
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177 | (2) |
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8 Six Levels of Contract Automation: The Evolution of 'Smart Legal Contracts' |
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B Automation and Digital Transformation |
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D Analogy Between Automation of Contracts and Autonomous Vehicles |
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9 Smart Contracts as Execution Instead of Expression |
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B Definition and Principal Characteristics of Smart Contracts |
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C Smart Contracts and the Role of Interpretation |
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D Extensions to Smart Contracts? Oracles and Libraries |
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E Implementing Contract Law in Smart Contracts |
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219 | (4) |
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10 Smart Contracts: The Limits of Autonomous Performance |
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B De-constructing Autonomous Performance: Three Core Functionalities |
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C Documentary Credit: Analogue Autonomous Performance |
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D Comparative Analysis of Smart Contracts and Documentary Credit |
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11 Techno-Legal Supertoys: Smart Contracts and the Fetishization of Legal Certainty |
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246 | (23) |
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B Prelude: The Persistence of 'Supertoys' |
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249 | (3) |
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C Smart, but not Intelligent, Contracts |
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252 | (5) |
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257 | (8) |
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12 Languages for Smart and Computable Contracts |
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269 | (36) |
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269 | (2) |
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271 | (7) |
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C Natural and Formal Expression |
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283 | (9) |
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292 | (11) |
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303 | (2) |
13 The Mathematization of Legal Writing: The Next Contract Language? |
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B A Primer on Translation |
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C Logical Ancestors and the Formalistic Return |
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310 | (5) |
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315 | (7) |
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E Observations and Implications |
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14 Beyond Human: Smart-contracts, Smart-Machines, and Documentality |
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327 | (12) |
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B Social Objects and Documents |
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328 | (9) |
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15 Smart Contract 'Drafting' and the Homogenization of Languages |
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339 | (14) |
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B Language, Contract Drafting, and Lawyers |
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340 | (2) |
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C Smart Contracts and Language Homogenization |
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342 | (2) |
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D Language Homogenization |
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E Impacts of Language Homogenization by Smart Contracts |
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347 | (5) |
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16 Practice Makes...Pragmatic: Designing a Practical Smart Contract Legal Architecture |
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355 | (2) |
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357 | (1) |
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358 | (4) |
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362 | (3) |
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365 | (2) |
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17 Lawyer Meets Developer: How Interdisciplinary Collaboration Builds Smarter Legal Contracts |
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B The Emerging Taxonomy of Interdisciplinary Collaboration |
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C The Relative Benefits of Different Ways of Working |
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D Lawyers, Standards, and Emerging Technologies |
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379 | (3) |
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18 Not Up to the Job: Why Smart Contracts are Unsuitable for Employment |
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383 | (14) |
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B Background to Smart Contracts in Employment |
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385 | (3) |
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C Why Smart Contracts are Unsuitable for Employment |
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388 | (7) |
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19 The Legal Consequences of Automated Mistake |
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397 | (23) |
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397 | (1) |
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B Quoine Pte Ltd v B2C2 Ltd |
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398 | (5) |
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D Integrating Cyber-contracts with the Law of Mistake |
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412 | (4) |
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20 Dispute Resolution for the Digital Economy: DLT as a Catalyst for Online Dispute Resolution? |
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420 | (35) |
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421 | (1) |
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422 | (6) |
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C Drivers and Obstacles to Online Dispute Resolution |
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428 | (7) |
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D Is DLT an Additional Catalyst for ODR? |
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435 | (16) |
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E The Road Ahead: Multidisciplinary Collaboration |
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451 | (1) |
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Bibliography |
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Index |
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