ABSTRACT
This essay explores the barriers to deploying smart contracts in the consumer finance space: the humans themselves, existing consumer protection laws, and the other businesses who have financial contracts with consumers but that cannot deploy smart contracts. These three barriers render perfectly automated enforcement all but impossible. Nevertheless, there may be room for modifiable smart contracts in the consumer financial space although these contracts may be only marginally more efficient than traditional contracts.
D’Onfro, Danielle Frances, Smart Contracts and the Illusion of Automated Enforcement (October 15, 2019). Washington University Journal of Law and Policy, forthcoming.
First posted 2019-10-26 07:10:49
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