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13 - Blockchain’s Heterotopia

Technological Infrastructures and Lawyering in the Public Sector

from Part IV - Legal Tech and Public Law

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 November 2021

By
Georgios Dimitropoulos
Edited by
Larry A. DiMatteo ,
André Janssen ,
Pietro Ortolani ,
Francisco de Elizalde ,
Michel Cannarsa  and
Mateja Durovic
Larry A. DiMatteo
Affiliation:
University of Florida
André Janssen
Affiliation:
Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen
Pietro Ortolani
Affiliation:
Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen
Francisco de Elizalde
Affiliation:
IE University Madrid
Michel Cannarsa
Affiliation:
Catholic Lyon University
Mateja Durovic
Affiliation:
King's College London
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Summary

New technologies are promising a new world. It has now become apparent that blockchain technology will have many more future uses than simply supporting cryptocurrencies and other cryptoassets.1 Blockchain could support many new applications with a potentially disruptive impact on social life such as smart contracts, managing registers of assets, and the operation of autonomous agents. In addition, some governments intend to base essential government operations, such as land registries, on blockchain.2 This may potentially lead to the law being of diminishing importance in the world.3

Keywords

Blockchainsovereigntysmart contractsinfrastructurepublic law
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The Cambridge Handbook of Lawyering in the Digital Age , pp. 239 - 256
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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