The Cambridge Handbook of Smart Contracts, Blockchain Technology and Digital Platforms (Cambridge Law Handbooks)

The product of a unique collaboration between academic scholars, legal practitioners, and technology experts, this Handbook is the first of its kind to analyze the ongoing evolution of smart contracts, based upon blockchain technology, from the perspective of existing legal frameworks - namely, contract law. The book's coverage ranges across many areas of smart contracts and electronic or digital platforms to illuminate the impact of new, and often disruptive, technologies on the law. With a mix of scholarly commentary and practical application, chapter authors provide expert insights on the core issues involving the use of smart contracts, concluding that smart contracts cannot supplant contract law and the courts, but leaving open the question of whether there is a need for specialized regulations to prevent abuse. This book should be read by anyone interested in the disruptive effect of new technologies on the law generally, and contract law in particular.

Larry A. DiMatteo is Huber Hurst Professor of Contract Law at the University of Florida. He is the former Editor-in-Chief of the American Business Law Journal, a 2012 Fulbright Professor at the University of Sofia, and author or co-author of 120 publications, including twelve books.

Michel Cannarsa is Associate Professor and Dean at Université Catholique de Lyon Faculty of Law. His areas of research are International and European Law, Commercial Law, Comparative Law, Consumer Law, Law of Obligations and Legal Translation.

Cristina Poncibò is Associate Professor of Comparative Private Law at the Department of Law of the Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy. Her research interests are in the fields of comparative law, interdisciplinary approaches to comparative law, comparative contract law, private law and market regulation.