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4 Stan. J. Blockchain L. & Pol'y 1 (2020-2021)

handle is hein.journals/sjblp4 and id is 1 raw text is: INTRODUCTION TO THE SYMPOSIUM FOR BLOCKCHAIN AND PROCEDURAL LAW: LAW AND JUSTICE IN THE AGE OF DISINTERMEDIATION Edouard Fromageau,* Lily Martinet,** Alain Zamaria*** This Symposium is the result of the research project entitled Blockchain and Procedural Law: Law and Justice in the Age of Disintermediation, organized at the Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for Procedural Law under the supervision of Professor H6lene Ruiz Fabri. Structured in three seminars, the project brought together legal scholars, economists, and practitioners to discuss some of the most topical areas of interest. The first seminar, Blockchain, Cryptocurrencies and the Law, aimed at (i) considering the present and potential implications of blockchain for law with a particular focus on procedure and dispute resolution, (ii) and presenting the law and politics of bitcoin, which is subject to diverging characterizations that have important legal and procedural ramifications. The second seminar, Automating Legal Instruments, focused on the compliance of blockchain's trustless and irreversible architecture with the law, through the study of two innovations: smart contracts and decentralized corporate structures. The purpose of the third and last seminar, Blockchain Technologies at the Domestic and the International Levels, was to (i) understand how states embrace the blockchain and experiment with this technology and (ii) map the prospects of blockchain applications for international organizations. The seminars aimed to question code as a procedure in its different dimensions. Through its replicated distributed ledger and its consensus algorithms that ensure the integrity of transactions, blockchain has shown the potential to transform social structures. As multiple blockchain applications have been designed to replicate and strengthen fundamental * Lecturer, University of Aberdeen; Ph.D., University of Geneva and Aix-Marseille University; formerly Senior Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for Procedural Law. ** Senior Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for Procedural Law; Ph.D., Sorbonne Law School. *** Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for Procedural Law. 1

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