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Readings on Law & Society via Computable Contracts

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Some Background

Smart contracts, as the blockchain community defines them, are a subset of computable contracts. The idea of computable contarcts contracts has existed within scholarship since ish the 90's. However, the scholarship and theorizing around the ideas behind computable contracts has been accelerated since blockchain based "smart contracts" have become a technical reality.

What are smart contracts? (disclosure, mostly my writing)
What are smart contracts? (what blockchainers think is the original paper here)

How Can Computable Contracts Be Used?

Theory:

Practice (Public Sector):

There isn't much just yet on the public sector side.

UK Government report on distributed ledgers and smart contracts (PDF link, haven't finished reading)

Practice (Private Sector):

Empowering Distributed Autonomous Companies by Houman Shadab
How Blockchain Technology Might Transform Personal Insurance by LongFinance (blockchain is in the title, but its mostly about computable contracts)

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compleatang commented Jan 20, 2016

See also @waldoj 's compilation -> https://gist.github.com/waldoj/3f840b292f4383069e15

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compleatang commented Jan 20, 2016

Via @computational -> http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2566535

Measuring, Monitoring, and Managing Legal Complexity (which IIRC looks at some interesting challenges around nomenclature and readability)

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