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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.

How Can Computable Contracts Be Used?

Theory:

Practice (Public Sector):

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

Practice (Private Sector):

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

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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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