Blockchain, Business Supply Chains, Sustainability, and Law: The Future of Governance, Legal Frameworks, and Lawyers?

A. Sulkowski
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Blockchain technology has been hailed as the next disruptive leap forward in data sciences. Most legal scholarship related to the topic has focused on its relevance to finance, but it could revolutionize business supply chains. Specifically, blockchain-enabled solutions are expected to improve the reliability of data related to supply chains and to help businesses eliminate fraud, inefficiencies, waste, and harms to people and the environment. Despite the surrounding hype, this paper will explain why the promise of distributed electronic ledgers will only be realized in the context of effective governance and legal frameworks. This paper draws upon scholarly articles and the opinions of entrepreneurs actively engaged in bringing blockchain-enabled technologies to market to arrive at two sets of related conclusions. First, that the benefits of the technology — including its potential to help businesses prosper while eliminating societal and environmental harms — will only be realized in the context of enabling frameworks of law. Second, the author articulates how the role of the legal profession vis-a-vis business clients will evolve in the era of blockchain-enabled business supply chain optimization.
区块链、商业供应链、可持续性和法律:治理、法律框架和律师的未来?
区块链技术被誉为数据科学领域的下一个颠覆性飞跃。与该主题相关的大多数法律学术研究都集中在其与金融的相关性上,但它可能会彻底改变商业供应链。具体来说,区块链解决方案有望提高与供应链相关数据的可靠性,并帮助企业消除欺诈、低效率、浪费以及对人类和环境的危害。尽管周围的炒作,本文将解释为什么分布式电子账本的承诺只有在有效的治理和法律框架的背景下才能实现。本文借鉴了学术文章和积极致力于将区块链技术推向市场的企业家的观点,得出了两组相关结论。首先,这项技术的好处——包括它在帮助企业繁荣的同时消除社会和环境危害的潜力——只有在有利的法律框架的背景下才能实现。其次,作者阐述了在区块链支持的商业供应链优化时代,法律专业人士对商业客户的作用将如何演变。
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