On 26 March (3-4.15pm CET) Professor Joshua Fairfield | joshfairfield.bsky.social will present his latest book "Runaway Technology" over a Zoom event of the EUI InfoSoc WG. Registrations are open! Send an email to [email protected] by 24 March to receive the joining details. eui.eu/events/detail?…

The book Launch event, Envisioning Law's Future, is tomorrow, March 19 at 2 PM. Stacy-Ann Elvy Olufunmilayo Arewa and frankpasquale.bsky.social or [email protected] will join me to give their take on the future of law. Register here: joshuafairfield.com/registration or join directly with this link: wlu.zoom.us/j/93821493231

Envisioning Law's Future with Stacy-Ann Elvy, Olufunmilayo Arewa, and frankpasquale.bsky.social or [email protected] is live at 2 PM. Join here: wlu.zoom.us/j/93821493231

Beyond excited to share my paper "Creating Cryptolaw for the Uniform Commercial Code," forthcoming with the W&L Law Review! The paper uses Lexon Digital tools to build a smart-contract based Article 9 filing system: ssrn.com/abstract=38099…

On the question of AI regulation, we need "to pay a lot less attention to statutes and to pay a lot more attention to how the language is evolving," says Joshua Fairfield | joshfairfield.bsky.social in his conversation with Jeremie Harris on the TDS Podcast. buff.ly/3wjkb07

Excited to be presenting my work on machine learning fairness and responsible measurement at the Southern Journal of Philosophy's conference on Ethics of Big Data today alongside Michael Lynch Michael Lynch and Joshua Fairfield | joshfairfield.bsky.social memphis.edu/philosophy/new…

Had a great time talking with Jeramie Harris from Towards Data Science. Check out our conversation about technology and law. towardsdatascience.com/ai-advances-bu…

I am very excited about my recent paper Tokenized: The Law of Non-Fungible Tokens and Unique Digital Property. The paper is forthcoming in the Indiana Law Journal. Check it out here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

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Law faculty recognized for scholarship and teaching, including Joshua Fairfield | joshfairfield.bsky.social Sarah Haan Brandon Hasbrouck Alan Trammell columns.wlu.edu/law-faculty-re…

I was thrilled to join Aya Kantorovich and Tom Schmidt ＞|＜ on a Global Investor Conference panel hosted by Karim Nurani about the future of crypto and the regulation of NFTs. youtube.com/watch?v=EcvWxb…

2. If you agree like I do with Joshua Fairfield | joshfairfield.bsky.social’s position that NFTs are goods subject UCC Article 2 then the platform is likely a merchant and may give an implied warranty of merchantability with a sale (although a sophisticated platform should try to waive this implied warranty).

The final post in a three part series by SCRF Researcher Dr. Tabali Tigi, diving into W&L Law School professor Joshua Fairfield | joshfairfield.bsky.social’s “Tokenized: The Law of Non-Fungible Tokens and Unique Digital Property.” x.com/SCRForum/statu…

Dr. Tabali Tigi W&L Law School Joshua Fairfield | joshfairfield.bsky.social Vladimir S. | Officer's Notes @SethAustinAI shared a research summary of “Convergence of Blockchain, IoT, and AI” - @philippsandner, Dr. Jonas Gross, and Robert Richter (Frankfurt School) smartcontractresearch.org/t/579

Finally getting around to reading Joshua Fairfield | joshfairfield.bsky.social's important law review article on NFTs. Crypto folks instinctively recoil against the legal system, but Josh shows how treating NFTs as personal property under the law is critical to the decentralizing Web 3.0 vision.

Kevin Werbach Joshua Fairfield | joshfairfield.bsky.social Andrea Tosato Carliss Chatman @DrexelKline And also, I sent Joshua Fairfield | joshfairfield.bsky.social’s paper around to members of UNIDROIT digital assets and private law working group and ULC committee, so we have the issue on the radar for sure.

Some pretty perplexing takes on here about NZ being "addicted to lockdowns". You do realise that we've spent the vast majority of the past year going to cafes, pubs, shops, restaurants, gigs etc with zero restrictions? 🤷‍♂️

I’m grateful to The American Law Institute for highlighting my work! Still taking comments on the article before the editors Nevada Law Journal start their work on it!

We had great fun writing this paper and researching the role that "tokens" (broadly defined) play in law. Is an NFT a solution in search of a problem? Read it to find out!

Are NFTs private property, contracts, or something else? What kind of legal rights do NFT owners have? In this #Chainlink Research Report, Joshua Fairfield | joshfairfield.bsky.social argues that NFTs are private property and discusses how NFTs are a unique digital property. youtu.be/kkQZk4Gujd4