2018 Computational Law & Blockchain Festival

The first annual Computational Law & Blockchain Festival will bring together coders, designers, lawyers, policymakers, researchers, and students to co-create the future of law, legal practice, and policymaking. In the spirit of decentralization, the entire event will be hosted by independent, self-organized nodes around the world.

This global initiative will be a push to create and implement computational law (e.g., programmable contracts) and legal blockchain use cases. We will achieve this through a combination of educational sessions, hackathons, and policy discussions. Join us so you can LEARN, HACK, and DISCUSS:

LEARN: New to computational law or blockchain technologies? Learn the basics from local and global experts at our educational sessions and workshops.

HACK: Are you a coder or designer? Take part in our Global Challenge, a distributed, 24-hour hackathon that challenges participants to build open-source solutions. Partner challenges will also be available.

DISCUSS: Join lawyers, policymakers, technologists, academics, and enthusiasts for our Global Symposium, a distributed policy hack to discuss core policy issues related to blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies with the goal of contributing to a free and open global survey of those issues.

The Festival welcomes enthusiasts of all ages, genders, backgrounds, skill levels, and disciplines, and will be free to attend and participate. #clbfest2018

Find more info at http://legalhackers.org/clbfest2018/. The Houston schedule and Code of Conduct is now live at http://bit.ly/2FnWFFk!

Brought to you by:

The Accord Project | Legal.io | OpenLaw | Monax

MIT Media Lab (law.mit.edu) | Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law | Brooklyn Law School | Cornell Tech IC3 | LA Blockchain Lab | Legal Technology Lab | New York Law School | Stanford CodeX Blockchain Working Group

Blockchain Diversity Group | Bootstrap Legal | Legal Hackers

Internetbar.org Institute | Station Houston

• What to bring
Enthusiasm, questions, and crazy ideas

• Important to know
The Houston schedule can be found here: http://bit.ly/2FnWFFk. Interested in volunteering, speaking, running a workshop, partnering, or sponsoring? Message the organizer to secure your spot!