Web3 Governance

Focusing on four key aspects of Web3, the book explores metaverses, data governance, public and private law interfaces, and access to justice, presenting new research on the impact of data analytics on transactions within law. It will be essential reading for scholars in law, business studies, economics, public administration and regulation.

Autorentext

Joseph Lee is a reader in corporate and financial law at the University of Manchester School of Law. He is founding programme director of Manchester Online LLM Master of Laws in International Commercial and Technology Law. He is author of the book Crypto-Finance, Law and Regulation: Governing an Emerging Ecosystem and editor of the book Data Governance in AI, FinTech and RegTech. He is a member of the LawTech Advisory Council of the Astana International Financial Centre and of the Manchester LawTech Initiative. Dr Lee has been principal investigator of research projects funded by the UKRI, British Academy, and British Council. He has held a number of visiting positions, including at KU Leuven and Tokyo University. He is also an attorney-at-law of New York State.

Jyh-An Lee is a Professor and the Executive Director of the Centre for Legal Innovation and Digital Society at the Chinese University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law. He has been featured on ABC News, BBC News, Bloomberg News, Financial Times, and Fortune as an expert on intellectual property and internet law. His works have been cited by the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, the UK High Court of Justice, and the European Union (in a WTO dispute-settlement case).

Inhalt

Roadmap to Legal Implications of Web3: An Introduction

Part A: Property and Contract

1. Deciphering the Legal Enigma of NFTs

2. Taxation of Cryptoassets and Web 3.0

3. The Sense and Nonsense of Smart Contracts

Part B: Reorganising Organisations

4. Law and Regulation for Decentralised Autonomous Organisations (DAOs)

5. Resource Dependency Theory and Cybersecurity Regulation

Part C: Data Governance

6. Data Law in China

7. Copyright Law and the Use of Big Data for Computer Vision

Part D: Disputes and Liabilities in the Platform Economy

8. What's the Gig? Tort Liability of Platforms for Physical User-to-User Harm

9. Envisioning the Future of Online Dispute Resolution from the Case of China

Part E: International Law Perspectives

10. Navigating the Cryptosphere: Jurisdictional Uncertainty in Emerging Cross-Border Cryptocurrency Disputes

11. Rethinking Jurisdiction of Online Defamation

12. Grounding a Right to Internet Access in the Right to an Adequate Standard of Living