Journal
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND LAW
Volume 26, Issue 4, Pages 377-409Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10506-018-9223-3
Keywords
Legal contracts; Smart contracts; Blockchain
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This paper provides an analysis of how concepts pertinent to legal contracts can influence certain aspects of their digital implementation through smart contracts, as inspired by recent developments in distributed ledger technology. We discuss how properties of imperative and declarative languages including the underlying architectures to support contract management and lifecycle apply to various aspects of legal contracts. We then address these properties in the context of several blockchain architectures. While imperative languages are commonly used to implement smart contracts, we find that declarative languages provide more natural ways to deal with certain aspects of legal contracts and their automated management.
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