Future Law

Future law is law - but not as you know it Jim. It is a pragmatic system, or Legal Hack that we are able to compose partly out of code, and partly out of real-world legal elements.

This thought should be qualified in the recognition that future law is something we can create and use today. We refer to the future in part to distinguish it from law, but also because we see this form growing and shaping the future. We see it as important.

# Future law in education

There is a recent movement in law schools that is beginning to introduce interdisciplinary discussions around law and technology that is promising.

https://www.listennotes.com/e/p/83b972f3ddb94ffba15a5901a0bd308a#t=19:44,20:59 Dan Linna, discusses Teaching Spaces related to future law on the Future Law Podcast - listen

# Johann Gevers

YOUTUBE 8oeiOeDq_Nc The four pillars of a decentralized society (including Decentralised Law) | Johann Gevers | TEDxZug

# Formalizing and Securing Relationships on Public Networks (1997)

Our institutions still take for granted that we live in a world of paper. We formalize our relationships with written contracts, written laws, and forms designed for paper.
Smart contracts reduce mental and computational transaction costs imposed by either principals, third parties, or their tools. The contractual phases of search, negotiation, commitment, performance, and adjudication constitute the realm of smart contracts.

- Smart Contracts in Future Law - Future Law - Next Slide Distributed Contracts - Other Resources on Future Law - Distributed Contracts - Legal Markdown

We expect law and legal practices to change over time. I don't intend to be technologically deterministic. I do perceive these potential and actual transformation as systematic, affecting all expressions of a relationship between individuals, legal entities and a state in all it's complexity....