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Smart contracts: navigating a course between a consensus arrangement and a legal contract

13 June 2024 / Author(s): Richard Hay , Sophia Le Vesconte , Michael Voisin
Issue: September 2021 / Categories: Spotlight

In this Spotlight article, the authors propose a rebuttal to one of the conclusions in ‘Sailing into the rules of smart contracts’, an article co-authored by Akber Datoo and Jeffrey Golden and published in the June edition of this journal ((2021) 6 JIBFL 387).

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