eIDAS Day
A new regulation takes effect on 1 July…
Commerce, Contracts & Finance
Smart? Blockchain, DAO and Decentralization
Andres Guadamuz returns to blockchain, including an introduction to some basic concepts for those not familiar with the technology, and goes on to cover recent developments, particularly the latest multi-million hacking attacks involving Ethereum’s DAO, which suggests that smart contracts are only as smart as the people drafting them…
Smarter Documents
Summary of an event organised by the KM Committee of the SCL – 26 January 2016…
CPD Online: Foundations Cycle 2, Module 5 – Negotiating IT Contracts
Questions arising from the podcast of the meeting on 11 May 2016. SCL Online CPD Scheme – Course code HW/SFCL:OC44 – CPD: 2 hours…
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IFCLA Conference Feedback
IFCLA Vice-President Roger Bickerstaff looks back at some of the take-aways from last week’s successful IFCLA Conference, which was organised and hosted by SCL, and seeks your thoughts on some of the issues raised…
Fundamentally Giddy: An IFCLA Conference Report
David Chaplin reflects his personal reaction to the IFCLA Conference 2016 and reports on the many varied sessions…
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Who Owns Blockchains? An English Legal Analysis
Matthew Lavy and Daniel Khoo consider the range of approaches to the vexed question of ownership of blockchains and the ways in which any rights flowing from ownership might be enforced. Dr Matthew Lavy is one of the speakers at the IFCLA Conference on the topic ‘Virtual Currencies and other Blockchain Environments’…
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Keeping Humans at the Heart of FinTech
Simon Deane-Johns considers the interaction between technology and humans and, focusing on FinTech, looks at his hopes for innovation…
IFCLA Conference Special Issue Published
The remaining articles from the IFCLA Conference Special Issue of Computers & Law are now available online, as are its associated epub and, for SCL members, the online CPD…
RPAS and the GDPR
Catherine Erkelens and Thomas Van Gremberghe cover some considerations in the interaction between the use of remotely piloted aircraft systems (RPAS) and the new EU General Data Protection Regulation…