Smart contracts are self-executing digital transactions using decentralized cryptographic
mechanisms for enforcement. They were theorized more than twenty years ago, but the …

Trust-the willingness to accept vulnerability to the actions of others-is the essential
ingredient for friendship, commerce, transportation, and virtually every other activity that …

In US law, a contract is described as a legally enforceable promise. So to make a contract,
one must make a promise. The legal norms regulating these promises diverge in substance …

Trust is often touted as both an element of success and an outcome of interest in
collaboration research, usually without defining the term or acknowledging the possibility of …

Smart contracts lie at the heart of blockchain technology. There are two principal problems,
however, with existing smart contracts: first, the enforceability of smart contracts remains …

As Aristotle recognized in The Politics, the household is an indispensable building block of
social, economic, and political life. A liberal society grants its citizens far wider berth to …

The proposition that the commitment to individual autonomy is one of the most important
foundations of contract is a truism, almost a clich6.'Contract, in this common account, is the …

It is a clich6 of contemporary legal scholarship that, in the last few decades, the study of law
has witnessed a vast proliferation of competing theoretical approaches. The old faith in the …

My aim in this volume is to help lay bare the organization of home life. Plato and Aristotle
devoted attention to the household in ancient times, and since then analysts have examined …

Among different concepts associated with the term blockchain, smart contracts have been a
prominent one, especially popularized by the Ethereum platform. In this study, we unpack …