On Thursday October 11th, 2018, join us for an invite-only gathering at the heart of San Francisco’s blockchain community ecosystem to learn, hack, and jam on blockchain governance, law and policy. Some of the world’s top experts in these fields will be listening and sharing perspectives on how the intersections of governance, law, regulation, and policy with blockchain technologies promise both extraordinary new opportunities, but also create serious new risks.
Starfish Mission - Blockchain Coworking Space
1535 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA
Drinks and a light dinner will be provided before the panel and roundtables begin. There will be space for breakout groups to form and report back to the main group. See below for a more detailed agenda and reference materials.
Following the roundtables, musicians, smart contract developers, and policy experts will continue their work on the Open Media Legal Hackathon, which will be set up to involve music, beverages, and collaborative licensing arrangements.
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The evening will extend into more free-form roundtable discussions, to allow all invited participants to engage in deeper conversations. Spaces will be available for threaded discussions. Notes and recordings will be taken in order to facilitate follow-on engagement with all participants, and to seed a broader discussion with the interdisciplinary communities of stakeholders that we are all seeking to engage on these important issues.
Vlad Zamfir recently published this article on blockchain governance.
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Vlad highlighted an excellent response from the folks at CleanApp digging into the legal issues, Vlad's subsequent response, Vitalik Buterin's thoughts on immutability as governance, and a further contribution on international law as governance.
DLA Piper, Partner, Mark Radcliffe, also shared a response to Vlad, highlighting the role of open source software foundations.
Kate Sills shares the following piece on the original governance ideas for the internet, and here and here, on smart contracts.
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 William Starr, offers an economics-focussed take on blockchain governance.
Dazza Greenwood will be presenting, during his lightning talk, a set of blockchain and governance-related initiatives that he has been coordinating at law.mit.edu, including a challenge from the MIT Media Lab + Berklee College of Music Open Music Initiative, creating an open-source protocol for the uniform identification of music rights holders and creators, the recently passed Music Modernization Act, and an invitation to participate in a distributed hackathon (more details at LegalHackathon.org).
Professor Oliver Goodenough will be presenting his proposal around a "Blockchain Boilerplate Repository" as part of his ongoing work on Computational Law, legal specification protocols, and how blockchain and smart contract technologies can be integrated into existing legal and governance frameworks. An outline proposal for consideration by the group can be viewed and commented on here.
Steven Nam, Managing Editor of the Stanford Journal of Blockchain Law and Policy will be on hand to discuss submissions, forthcoming issues, and how to get involved.
