“On 25th November 2021, the English Law Commission published its Advice to Government on smart legal contracts. While the English Law Commission is anticipating launching in mid-2022 a project to review conflict of law rules to emerging technology, in Chapter 7 of this Advice, it discusses issues relevant to the jurisdiction of English courts concerning smart legal contracts. The term ‘smart legal contracts’ is explained at paragraph 2.11 of the Advice as: ‘legally binding contracts in which some or all of the contractual obligations are defined in and/or performed automatically by a computer program’ …” (more)
[Ralf Michaels, Conflict of Laws .net, 5 December]
First posted 2021-12-07 11:30:48
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