Professor Harry Surden of the University of Colorado has posted a video of his presentation entitled Computable Contracts, given 7 February 2014 at ReInvent Law NYC.
The video is available at ReInvent Law Channel, published by Professor Dr. Daniel Martin Katz and Professor Renee Newman Knake of the ReInvent Law Laboratoryat Michigan State University.
The presentation is based on Professor Surden’s paper,
Computable Contracts, UC Davis Law Review, Vol. 46, pp. 629-700 (2012).
Here...
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