DAO Regulation – Principles and Perspectives for the Future
Madalena Perestrelo de Oliveira (University of Lisbon) and António Garcia Rolo (University of Lisbon) edited Decentralised Autonomous Organisation (DAO) Regulation – Principles and Perspectives for the Future with Mohr Siebeck.
The Lisbon Centre for Research in Private Law (CIDP) launched the Lisbon DAO Observatory to address legal challenges surrounding decentralised autonomous organisations (DAOs) and to guide future legislative action. In April 2023, the project hosted a global conference that brought together leading scholars, industry professionals, and practitioners to discuss how DAOs should be regulated, recognized, or whether regulation is needed at all. This volume, resulting from the conference, explores key topics like decentralization, legal personality, governance, limited liability, and sector-specific issues such as dispute resolution, civil liability, tax law, and conflict of laws.
Among the contributions are those addressing issues such as DAOs before state courts, dealing with how private international law can keep up with global digital entities and the applicable law to international smart contracts and DAOs.
Contributors include Madalena Perestrelo de Oliveira, António Garcia Rolo, Marta Boura, Nathan Vandy, Henrik Axelsen, Johannes Rude Jensen, Omri Ross, Florian Möslein, Daniel Ostrovski, Biyan Mienert, Christopher Wray, Florence Guillaume, Peder Østbye, João Serras de Sousa, João Vieira dos Santos, Bianca Kremer, Kanye Ye Wang, António Rocha Mendes and Luís de Lima Pinheiro.
The book is available in open access here.