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Computational Law and Blockchain Festival .

2019 New York City Node

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Overview:

This meetup on Friday evening, March 29th and all-day Saturday, March 30th is the NYC node of the 2019 Computational Law & Blockchain Festival (global hashtag #clbfest2019 and local hashtag: #clbfest2019nyc).

This event at the Bushwick Generator is part of a month-long global event series bringing together coders, designers, lawyers, policymakers, researchers, and students to co-create the future of law, legal practice, and policy. In the spirit of decentralization, the Festival is hosted at independent, self-organized nodes in cities around the world during the month of March.

The 2019 CLB Fest team are organizing a core set of discussion sessions. In addition, you can propose sessions for the Learn, Hack or Discuss tracks of the 2019 CLB Fest NYC Node through this form: https://goo.gl/forms/TDtxMMe09GEU39Zi1

Working Agenda

FRIDAY, MARCH 29th

6:00 PM - 9:00 PM Optional Pre-Event Brainstorming

  • Join Emerick Patterson (Bushwick Generator) for an optional pre-event brainstorming session at our event venue, the Bushwick Generator!

  • Session Description:

In preparation for our Computational Law & Blockchain hackathon taking place on March 30th (http://meetu.ps/e/GkKMx/1fg2s/a ), we wanted to set context the night before. Come join us and hear from niche legal experts who will share their digital innovations and insights, as well as discuss legal frameworks for the Bushwick Generator and for Brooklyn. This will be a robust conversation that will lay the foundation for a new, more fluid form of collaboration, team formation and ideally, economic growth. What we are about: We want to give #buidlers the opportunity co-create this future together and crystallize Bushwick as the ultimate experimental blockchain playground. Come hear first hand how the Bushwick Generator, a 100,000 sq. ft. creative campus is committed to a crypto-savvy Bushwick.

SATURDAY, MARCH 30th

11:00 DOORS OPEN

11:30 - 12:00 Computational Law Fundamentals

Presentation Slides

12:10 - 1:00 Blockchain Compliance Today Q&A

  • Jonathan Askin (Professor, Brooklyn Law School)
  • Lisa LeFever (Compliance & Operations Associate, LGO Group)
  • Daniel Nathan (Partner at Orrick, Co-Chair of its Blockchain and Cryptocurrency Group)
  • Jorge Pesok (Managing Associate at Orrick, “On the Chain” Blogger)
    • [Steve Nam will moderate to the extent needed]

Followed by Q&A with the speakers

1:00 - 2:30 LUNCH AND LEARN

Lunch Talks

InterDAOs Relationships & International Dispute Resolution > Silke Noa Elrifai (GNOSIS General Counsel; CLO): One of the main issues surrounding DAOs involves limiting the liability of the DAOs’ participants vis-a-vis third parties. Various jurisdictions are currently working on resolving this issue. But is there an international approach to this issue? May we create a set of International DAO principles as part of international law?

Legal Hackers Meet ISOC-NY > Join Greg Shatan of ISOC-NY and Jonathan Askin of Legal Hackers to learn what the Internet Society and ISOC-NY are, what they do and how ISOC-NY and Legal Hackers can collaborate on policy and other activities.

More lunch talks or other learning sessions will be posted as they are announced.

2:30 - 3:20 Automated and Autonomous Valid Legal Entities

  • Dazza Greenwood (Scientist, MIT Media Lab; law.MIT.edu)
  • Silke Noa Elrifai (GNOSIS General Counsel; CLO)
  • Kurt Watkins (MG Miller Intellectual Property Law)
  • Brenden Maher (CEO at Startup TBA, Media Lab alumnus 1998)

Followed by Q&A with the speakers

3:30 - 4:30 Blockchain (Decentralized) Governance Roundtable

  • Jonathan Askin (Professor, Brooklyn Law School)
  • Gayan Benedict (CIO of Reserve Bank of Australia) (Remote)
  • Michael Chan (OpenLaw)
  • Steve Nam (Managing Editor, Stanford J. Blockchain L. & Pol’y)
  • Philippa Ryan (University of Technology Sydney) (Remote)

4:40 - 5:30 Concurrent Breakout Sessions

Discussing Governing Data-as-Property with the Traditional 'Bundle of Rights'

  • Session leader: W E Perry,Managing Director at Fiduciary Automation

Learning Legal and Contract Issues for dApps

  • Session leader: Kurt Watkins is Of Counsel to MG Miller and provides corporate and technology contract expertise to help startups generate revenue and attract investment

DAO Design & Development: Practical Applications

  • Session leaders: Beth McCarthy, Daniel Shavit, Ori Shimony. This session will distill points from day-long workshop on prior day (Friday 3/19) and will cover “Mechanism Design Thinking” (user-centric design/agent-centric models), intro token engineering and incentive simulation environment and applications

Learning Smart Contracts and OpenLaw:

  • Session leaders: Anne Griffin, Pri Desai and Michael Chan. Learn about smart contracts and how you can write legal agreements on the OpenLaw platform that can perform smart contract functions.

More Breakout Sessions can be Proposed through THIS FORM

5:30 - 6:00 Wrap up and Networking

6:30: DOORS CLOSE

NOTE: Additional speakers will be added to this event page when announced.

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