Legal Tech, Smart Contracts and Blockchain (Perspectives in Law, Business and Innovation)

Synopsis

There Is A Broad Consensus Amongst Law Firms And In-house Legal Departments That Next Generation 'legal Tech' – Particularly In The Form Of Blockchain-based Technologies And Smart Contracts – Will Have A Profound Impact On The Future Operations Of All Legal Service Providers. Legal Tech Startups Are Already Revolutionizing The Legal Industry By Increasing The Speed And Efficiency Of Traditional Legal Services Or Replacing Them Altogether With New Technologies. This On-going Process Of Disruption Within The Legal Profession Offers Significant Opportunities For All Business. However, It Also Poses A Number Of Challenges For Practitioners, Trade Associations, Technology Vendors, And Regulators Who Often Struggle To Keep Up With The Technologies, Resulting In A Widening Regulatory 'gap.' Many Uncertainties Remain Regarding The Scope, Direction, And Effects Of These New Technologies And Their Integration With Existing Practices And Legacy Systems. Adding To The Challenges Is The Growing Need For Easy-to-use Contracting Solutions, On The One Hand, And For Protecting The Users Of Such Solutions, On The Other. To Respond To The Challenges And To Provide Better Legal Communications, Systems, And Services Legal Tech Scholars And Practitioners Have Found Allies In The Emerging Field Of Legal Design.-- Digital Technologies, Legal Design And The Future Of The Legal Profession / Marcelo Corrales, Mark Fenwick And Helena Haapio -- Smart Contract This! An Assessment Of The Contractual Landscape And The Herculean Challenges It Currently Presents / Rory Unsworth -- Successful Contracts : Integrating Design And Technology / Thomas D. Barton, Helena Haapio, Stefania Passera And James G. Hazard -- Exploding The Fine Print : Designing Visual, Interactive, Consumer-centric Contracts And Disclosures / Margaret Hagan -- Beyond Digital Inventions : Diffusion Of Technology And Organizational Capabilities To Change / Charlotta Kronblad And Johanna E. Pregmark -- Contract Automation : Experiences From Dutch Legal Practice / Ivar Timmer -- Legal Automation : Ai And Law Revisited / Cecilia Magnusson Sjöberg -- Smart Contracts And Smart Disclosure : Coding A Gdpr Compliance Framework / Marcelo Corrales, Paulius Jurčys And George Kousiouris -- When People Just Click : Addressing The Difficulties Of Controller/processor Agreements Online / Sam Wrigley -- The Lawyer Of The Future As Transaction Engineer : Digital Technologies And The Disruption Of The Legal Profession / Mark Fenwick And Erik P. M. Vermeulen. Marcelo Corrales, Mark Fenwick, Helena Haapio, Editors. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.