As legal engineering grows as a domain of academic and practical interest, we need to understand the foundations and ramifications of the shift from “atoms” to “bits.” This movement brought about by the information age, accelerated by recent technological developments such as DLT, will fundamentally recast the foundations of law. Objects (“things” in property law) will be digital and law will evolve to be more like software engineering than manual, human processes.

This project will produce a series of papers focused on seeding the foundational issues concerning dematerialization in law and the concomitant rise of digital objects. These aim to encompass personal property, computational contracts, intellectual property, and conflict of laws issues. Longer form papers will be targeted for publication in academic journals.

The project aims to hold regular symposia to attract other contributions from the scholarly community, and stimulate discussion and software contributions.

Project Lead: Peter Hunn

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