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Articles 1 - 5 of 5
Full-Text Articles in Science and Technology Law
The Growth & Regulatory Challenges Of Decentralized Finance, Aaron J. Wright
The Growth & Regulatory Challenges Of Decentralized Finance, Aaron J. Wright
Faculty Articles
Proceedings of the 2021 Spring Conference: The Impact of Blockchain on the Practice of Law Panel 1: The Growth & Regulatory Challenges of Decentralized Finance
The Rise Of Decentralized Autonomous Organizations: Opportunities And Challenges, Aaron J. Wright
The Rise Of Decentralized Autonomous Organizations: Opportunities And Challenges, Aaron J. Wright
Faculty Articles
The Author explores the nature of DAOs and highlights several areas where states and regulators can adapt existing legal regimes to potentially accommodate DAOs. Part of the Blockchain & Procedural Law seminars (Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for Procedural Law).
Federal Rules Of Platform Procedure, Rory Van Loo
Federal Rules Of Platform Procedure, Rory Van Loo
Faculty Scholarship
Tech platforms serve as private courthouses for disputes about speech, lodging, commerce, elections, and reputation. After receiving allegations of defamatory content in top search results, Google must decide between protecting one person's public image and another's profits or speech. Amazon adjudicates disputes between consumers and third-party merchants about defective or counterfeit items. For many small businesses, layoffs and bankruptcy hang in the balance. This Article begins to uncover the processes that these platforms use to resolve disputes and proposes reforms. Other important businesses that intermediate, such as credit card companies ruling on a disputed charge between a merchant and consumer, …
Autonomous Business Reality, Carla L. Reyes
Autonomous Business Reality, Carla L. Reyes
Faculty Journal Articles and Book Chapters
Society tends to expect technology to do more than it can actually achieve, at a faster pace than it can actually move. The resulting hype cycle infects all forms of discourse around technology. Unfortunately, the discourse on law and technology is no exception to this rule. The resulting discussion is often characterized by two or more positions at opposite ends of the spectrum, such that participants in the discussion speak past each other, rather than to each other. The rich context that sits in the middle ground goes disregarded altogether. This dynamic most recently surfaced in the legal literature regarding …
Constructing Countervailing Power: Law And Organizing In An Era Of Political Inequality, Kate Andrias
Constructing Countervailing Power: Law And Organizing In An Era Of Political Inequality, Kate Andrias
Faculty Scholarship
This Article proposes an innovative approach to remedying the crisis of political inequality: using law to facilitate organizing by the poor and working class, not only as workers, but also as tenants, debtors, welfare beneficiaries, and others. The piece draws on the social-movements literature, and the successes and failures of labor law, to show how law can supplement the deficient regimes of campaign finance and lobbying reform and enable lower-income groups to build organizations capable of countervailing the political power of the wealthy. As such, the Article offers a new direction forward for the public-law literature on political power and …