Subproject 4 - Smart Contracts and Regulation Technologies

Start – 2018 | End – 2024 Duration – 6 years

The development of technologies for contracts involving the substitution of the third party by computer technology is making significant progress, requiring changes to be made in state legislation. The future of contractual obligations involves an analysis by the legal community in order to facilitate their legal implementation.

Subproject chief 

David Restrepo Amariles

Research activities

Case studies

The first case study focuses on Debt collection. It will analyse existing traditional and technology mechanisms for debt collection in three jurisdictions (France, Belgium and Québec) and aims to design a smart contract, using the blockchain technology,  in order to make the procedure more efficient and effective.

The second case study is currently under discussion within the working group.

Inventaire 

The working group will compile an inventory of  cases in which the use  of the  blockchain  has failed as a mean to implement legal solutions.

The second inventory will sed light on the diverse categories of smart contracts from a legal perspective.

Publications of researchers

• David RESTREPO AMARILES, « Developing an Automated Compliance App to Help Firms Comply with Privacy Regulations », HEC Paris, (27 octobre 2020).
• John MYLOPOULOS, Daniel AMYOT, Luigi LOGRIPPO, Alireza PARVIZIMOSAED and Sepher SHARIFI, "Social Dependence Relationships in Requirements Engineering", (September 2020) 13th International i* Workshop (iStar'20). 
• Alireza PARVIZIMOSAED, "Towards the Specification and Verification of Legal Contracts", (2020) School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science University of Ottawa.  
• Sepehr SHARIFI, Alireza PARVIZIMOSAED, Daniel AMYOT, Luigi LOGRIPPO et John MYLOPOULOS, "Symboleo: Towards a Specification Language for Smart Contracts" , (2020) 28th IEEE Int. Requirements Engineering Conf. 
• Alexis COLLOMB, Primavera DE FILIPPI, Klara SOK, « Blockchain Technology and Financial Regulation: A Risk-Based Approach to the Regulation of ICOs », (2019) No. 10-2, European Journal of Risk Regulation, 263, DOI : 10.1017/err.2019.41.
• Benoit COMBEMALE, Jorg KIENZLE, Gunter MUSSBACHER, Hyacinth ALI, Daniel AMYOT, Mojtaba BAGHERZADEH, Edouard BATOT, Nelly BENCOMO, Benjamin BENNI, Jean-Michel BRUEL, Jordi CABOT, Betty H.C. CHENG, Philippe COLLET, Gregor ENGELS, Robert HEINRICH, Jean-Marc JEZEQUEL, Anne KOZIOLEK, Sebastien MOSSER, Ralf REUSSNER, Houari SAHRAOUI, Rijul SAINI, June SALLOU, Serge STINCKWICH, Eugene SYRIANI, Manuel WIMMER, « A Hitchhiker’s Guide to Model-Driven Engineering for Data-Centric Systems », IEEE Software, 2020.0‑0, DOI : 10.1109/MS.2020.2995125.
• Primavera DE FILIPPI, Morshed MANNAN, Wessel REIJERS, « Blockchain as a Confidence Machine: The Problem of Trust & Challenges of Governance », (2020) No. 62, Technology in Society, 101284, DOI : 10.1016/j.techsoc.2020.101284.
• Iria GIUFFRIDA, Fredric I. LEDERER, Nicolas VERMEYS, « A Legal Perspective on the Trials and Tribulations of AI, How Artificial Intelligence, the Internet of Things, Smart Contracts and Other Technologies Will Affect the Law », (2018) No. 68, Case Western Reserve Law Review, 747.
• Abdelatif HAFID, Abdelhakim SENHAJI HAFID, Mustapha SAMIH, « New Mathematical Model to Analyze Security of Sharding-Based Blockchain Protocols », (2019) No. 7, IEEE Access, 185447, DOI : 10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2961065.
• Abdelatif HAFID, Abdelhakim SENHAJI HAFID, Mustapha SAMIH, « Scaling Blockchains: A Comprehensive Survey », (2020) No. 8, IEEE Access, 125244, DOI : 10.1109/ACCESS.2020.3007251.
• Zakaria Abou El Houda, Abdelhakim Senhaji Hafid, Lyes Khoukhi, « Cochain-SC: An Intra- and Inter-Domain DDoS Mitigation Scheme Based on Blockchain Using SDN and Smart Contract », (2019) No. 7, IEEE Access, 98893, DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2930715.
• Bahar HOUTAN, Abdelhakim SENHAJI HAFID, Dimitrios MAKRAKIS, « A Survey on Blockchain-Based Self-Sovereign Patient Identity in Healthcare », (2020) No. 8, IEEE Access, 90478, DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2020.2994090.
• David RESTREPO-AMARILES, « From Computational Indicators to Law into Technologies: The Internet of Things, Data Analytics and Encoding in COVID-19 Contact Tracing Apps », International Journal of Law in Context (forthcoming).
• Amy J. SCHMITZ, Colin RULE, « Online Dispute Resolution for Smart Contracts », (2019) 2019 Journal of Dispute Resolution, 103-125.
• Wachara FUNGWACHARAKORN, Kanae TSUSHIMA and Ken SATOH, « Resolving Counterintuitive Consequences in Law Using Legal Debugging », Artificial Intelligence and Law, (forthcoming).
• David RESTREPO AMARILES and Gregory LEWKOWICZ, « Unpacking Smart Law: How Mathematics and Algorithms are Reshaping the Legal Code in the Financial Sector », (2020) 25-3 Lex Electronica 171-185.
• David RESTREPO AMARILES et Gregory LEWKOWICZ, « The Emergence of Smart Law », (2019) 29-3 International Journal for Financial Services 24-33.

Conferences of our researchers 

Web-conference : Exploring Compliance Technologies for Privacy

Rebroadcasting available here  !

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This content has been updated on 23 August 2024 at 16 h 49 min.