SCL KM Committee event on 18th June 2019 – Data governance, information security and the power of knowledge.
James Holyday, Chair of the SCL KM Group, reports on the Groups’ recent meeting….
Lawtech & Lawyers
EVENT REPORT: Back to Basics – The Technology: 9 Key Takeaways
Gerald Brent picks out his own personal highlights from our recent Back to Basics: The Technology event…
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Smart Contracts: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly – Part 1: The Good (and a short history)
In this two part article Rachel Goss take a fresh look at the perennial question of whether smart contracts can ever work under English contract law by looking at the good, the bad and the ugly aspects associated with them. In Part 1 she provides a short history of smart contracts and a look at the good….
SCL Adjudication Procedure: Update and Launch Plans
A new adjudication procedure for the resolution of technology disputes in England & Wales…
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Dispute resolution in the era of big data and AI
Charlie Morgan and Rebecca Read give a brief overview of what artificial intelligence (AI) means, assess how process automation and machine learning is having an impact on dispute resolution and what things might look like in future….
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Non-UK digital service providers: Government issues consultation on post-Brexit regulation
The UK government has issued a call for views on the UK’s proposed approach to regulating non-UK based digital service providers operating in the UK under the NIS Regulations after the UK leaves the EU….
In Code we trust? Trustlessness and smart contracts
Mimi Zou, Grace Cheng and Marta Soria Heredia look at ‘trustlessness’ which they argue has given rise to a common misperception of smart contracts reducing or even eliminating the need for trust….
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BOOK REVIEW: An Introduction to Technology Law
Lucie Audibert, of Taylor Wessing, reviews a book that demonstrates that tech law is not a niche…
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Cloud and Other Digital Services Providers – Security & Incident Notification Obligations under the UK NIS Regulations, and GDPR comparison
Dr W Kuan Hon explains the impact of the Network and Information Systems Regulations 2018…
Time to get Technical? Revolutionizing the (Deplorable?) System of Internet Governance
This entry to the SCL Student Essay Prize earned Viraj Ananth the runner-up spot. It is a challenging and original take on the set question, which concerned the relative importance of law and ISP action in enforcement on the Internet….