Impact of Technology on International Contract Law: Smart Contracts and Blockchain Technologies in Lyon (France)

05.05.2018

On 4–5 May 2018 the Faculty of Law of the Lyon Catholic University (France), the University of Florida (USA) and the University of Turin (Italy) as well as with the European Law Institute (ELI) French and Italian Hubs, organised a conference on the Impact of Technology on International Contract Law: Smart Contracts and Blockchain Technologies.

Among esteemed speakers were Diana Wallis (Former President of ELI and lecturer at the University of Hull, UK), Sjef van Erp (ELI Vice-President and Professor at Maastricht University, the Netherlands) and Marc Clement (former member of the ELI Executive Committee and judge at the Lyon Administrative Appeal Court, France).

The purpose of this conference was to investigate the intersection between contract law and technology in an international and comparative perspective. The focus was on a number of areas that werel being debated as they relate to the law of contracts: smart contracts and blockchain technology, network contracts, the contractual status of electronic platforms, IP and privacy issues, as well as contract drafting. The conference brought together the expertise of scholars and practitioners from different jurisdictions (North America, Europe, Asia) to contribute to debates on the impact of technology on Law.

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