A non-contractual approach to smart contracts

Florian Gamper
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Abstract This article adds to the debate on what, legally speaking, smart contracts are and what they should be. Currently, much of this debate focuses on the relationship between smart contracts and legal contracts, overlooking that other legal categories may also be appropriate. This article suggests that the concept of abandonment can be fruitfully applied to smart contracts. Using the concept of abandonment has the advantage of allowing smart contracts, as close as legally possible, to be utilized as machines (or using the terminology suggested by Vitalik Buterin, founder of Etherium, as a ‘persistent script’). It would also make other issues, like the interpretation of smart contracts, easier to deal with. The argument is not that smart contracts can never be legal contracts; rather, it is suggested that, prima facie, users should have the choice of utilizing smart contracts as legal contracts or as machines.
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智能合约的非契约性方法
从法律上讲,智能合约是什么以及它们应该是什么,这篇文章增加了争论。目前,大部分争论都集中在智能合约和法律合约之间的关系上,忽视了其他法律类别也可能是合适的。这篇文章表明,放弃的概念可以有效地应用于智能合约。使用放弃概念的好处是允许智能合约在尽可能合法的情况下被用作机器(或者使用以太坊创始人Vitalik Buterin建议的术语作为“持久脚本”)。这也将使其他问题,如智能合约的解释,更容易处理。这个论点并不是说智能合约永远不可能成为法律合约;相反,它建议,从表面上看,用户应该选择使用智能合约作为法律合同或机器。
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期刊介绍: The International Journal of Law and Information Technology provides cutting-edge and comprehensive analysis of Information Technology, Communications and Cyberspace law as well as the issues arising from applying Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) to legal practice. International in scope, this journal has become essential for legal and computing professionals and legal scholars of the law related to IT.
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