{"id":22,"date":"2021-01-20T22:04:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-20T22:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/conferences.law.stanford.edu\/blockchainlawandpolicysummit2021\/?page_id=22"},"modified":"2021-01-20T22:40:54","modified_gmt":"2021-01-20T22:40:54","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/conferences.law.stanford.edu\/blockchainlawandpolicysummit2021\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Stanford CodeX Blockchain Law and Policy Summit 2021<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In January 2021, CodeX, the Stanford Center for Legal Informatics, is organizing a Blockchain Law and Policy Summit, online, across two days of focused discussion. The convening will be an invitation-only gathering on the theme of legal\/regulatory developments, bringing together topics covered by, and contributors to, our Blockchain Group projects, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/law.stanford.edu\/codex-the-stanford-center-for-legal-informatics\/regtrax\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Stanford RegTrax<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/stanford-jblp.pubpub.org\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Stanford Journal of Blockchain Law and Policy<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This year&#8217;s summit will consist of a number of relevant areas, including US and Global regulation, decentralized dispute resolution, stablecoins\/CBDCs\/DeFi, blockchain in legal education, institutional innovation, antitrust, and privacy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Following the summit, edited recordings of the discussions will be made available publicly, for feedback and comments, and to help seed the new <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/law.stanford.edu\/projects\/blockchain-education-initiative\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Blockchain Education Initiative<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. The CodeX Blockchain Group will be arranging further convenings to continue the substantive discussions, both in public, and as part of smaller, private roundtable discussions.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b>Pre-eminent Blockchain Law and Policy Gatherings<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/law.stanford.edu\/event\/blockchain-futurelaw-what-to-know-now-and-how-to-mobilize-for-the-future\/\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2019<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/conferences.law.stanford.edu\/earth2030\/about\/\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2020<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, as part of Stanford&#8217;s annual FutureLaw gathering, the pre-eminent conference on the Future of the legal industry and profession, the CodeX Blockchain Group convened standalone events with multiple panels, engaging via education, workshops, discussions, and interactive sessions aimed at FutureLaw attendees: lawyers, in-house counsel, corporate and compliance executives, policymakers, regulators, legal and blockchain technologists, and investors seeking to expand their knowledge of the current issues being considered at the intersection of law and blockchain. These gatherings address key issues and concepts for attendees to understand for the purposes of:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">serving current and upcoming business and client use-cases, and identifying and highlighting legal issues, risks, and important opportunities;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">enabling interdisciplinary, collective sensemaking, knowledge, and skill-sharing around critical blockchain technologies and their role in supporting global policy-makers, community-leaders, and their professional legal advisors; and<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">seeding ongoing work and collaborations with other attendees and Blockchain Group members.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b>Stanford CodeX Blockchain Law Group<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At CodeX, the Stanford Center for Legal Informatics, researchers, lawyers, entrepreneurs and technologists work side-by-side to advance the frontier of legal technology and computational law. Since <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/conferences.law.stanford.edu\/futurelaw2015\/agenda\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2015<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, CodeX has been featuring leading academics and practitioners from the blockchain ecosystem in its conferences. Since 2018, the<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/law.stanford.edu\/projects\/blockchain-group\/\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Blockchain Group<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> at CodeX has been convening regularly to research and publish informed perspectives around the blockchain ecosystem; track, guide and influence policy and regulations in this space; and become an inclusive, neutral forum for regulators and policy-makers to convene with researchers, professionals, and technologists across Stanford and the wider blockchain community.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Conference Organizing Committee:<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Tony Lai |\u00a0Reuben Youngblom\u00a0|\u00a0Michael Schmitz\u00a0|\u00a0Kushagra Shrivastava<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Riyanka Roy Choudhury\u00a0 |\u00a0Christine Jiang\u00a0|\u00a0Thibault Schrepel\u00a0|\u00a0Fatemeh Fannizadeh<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Carlos Mu\u00f1oz Ferrandis<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stanford CodeX Blockchain Law and Policy Summit 2021\u00a0 In January 2021, CodeX, the Stanford Center for Legal Informatics, is organizing a Blockchain Law and Policy Summit, online, across two days of focused discussion. 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