Blockchain & The Law: interfacing the rule of law and the rule of code
Duration: 01:23:45
Speaker: Constance Choi, Rick Dudley, Silke Noa Elrifai, Maria Gomez, Kei Kreutler, Carla Reyes, Fennie Wang
Type: Panel
Expertise: Beginner
Event: Devcon
Date: Jul 2026
This panel will feature prominent members of the COALA (http://coala.global) community. It will address the work that is currently being undertaken at COALA, with regard to interfacing the blockchain world with the legal world. It will focus in particular on the notion of "alegality" and how we can create legal APIs in order to help blockchain-based systems interact with legal persons. It will also discuss the need for legal reforms in order to accommodate the new opportunities provided by blockchain technology, and how the notion of "functional equivalence" can be used as a means to rely on blockchain technology as a "regulatory technology" in order to achieve similar regulatory or policy obec
