Table of Contents

1 Introduction: Contract Automation and “Smart Contracts” in Comparative Law.- 2 Contract and Technology from Automatic to Telematic Contracts.- 3 Peculiarities and Regulation of Electronic Bargaining.- 4 Smart Contracts: Legal Issues and First Regulatory Approaches.- 5 Elements, Pathologies and Remedies of Smart Contracts.- 6 Conclusion.

About the Author

Andrea Stazi is Associate Professor in Comparative Law & New Technology Law, Director of the InnoLawLab – Laboratory of Innovation Law and Coordinator of the Master’s Degree in “Artificial Intelligence: Law and Ethics of Emerging Technologies” at the European University of Rome. In 2020 he obtained the Italian National Scientific Habilitation as Full Professor in Comparative Law. He is also Visiting Professor in Biotechnology Law at the National University of Singapore. Prof. Stazi is the Coordinator of the Editorial Board of the journal “Diritto Mercato Tecnologia” (Law Market Technology). He authored several scientific publications on law and new technologies, among which “Biotechnological Inventions and Patentability of Life. The US and European Experience”, Edward Elgar, 2015.