JUS.QBATE
Examine ideas in law and governance and consider how they might become justified, bounded experiments. Define the problem, test assumptions and identify the conditions a pilot would require.
A standing worldwide invitation
Join the Future of Law, Governance and Justice through Innovation, Transformation and Intelligence.
An open invitation to
everyone, everywhere.
The invitation is open to everyone, everywhere, from every country and background. Bring your ideas, expertise, knowledge, experience, challenges or contributions. You do not need a professional title or a finished proposal to begin.
One invitation. Many starting points.Your starting point
Your starting point
is enough.
Participation can begin with an idea, a practical problem or something you have learned. All countries, disciplines and backgrounds are welcome. The contribution matters more than the label.
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Bring an idea
A question, possibility or different way of approaching a problem.
Start a conversation02
Share knowledge or experience
Professional expertise, research, practical skills or lived experience.
Start a conversation03
Describe a challenge
Something that law, governance or justice should address more effectively.
Start a conversation04
Explore working together
A research question, contribution or carefully scoped project.
Start a conversationFrom inquiry to developmentGive promising ideas
Give promising ideas
a disciplined next step.
Two distinct proposed initiatives in the wider institutional ecosystem connect participation with development. Their roles are complementary; each requires its own scope and safeguards.
JUS.novate
Explore legal renewal and institutional innovation. Translate new approaches into designs that can be examined for authority, accountability, implementation and remedy.
Neither description represents an operating platform, guaranteed admission or an automatic commitment to fund, build or deploy a proposal.
From possibility to a shared questionCollaborative
Collaborative
research and pilots.
A collaboration should begin with a defined question or problem. It may investigate a new economic arrangement, design a governance model or test a bounded part of a proposed system.
The starting agreement should identify:
- The purpose, scope and intended output
- The participants and their responsibilities
- The information, expertise and other contributions required
- Rights in the resulting work and arrangements for attribution and use
- Decision-making, confidentiality, consent and oversight
- How value, costs and any compensation are to be allocated
- The conditions for review, continuation or closure
An initial output may be a research brief, a legal and technical design, a feasibility assessment or a pilot protocol. A proposal to investigate a model is not a commitment to deploy it.
Law students worldwideRemote Research
Proposed placements
Remote Research
Internships.
Proposed placementsBring your curiosity, legal study and perspective to a shared programme of inquiry. Law students worldwide are invited to express interest in remote internships connected to Global Guides, comparative legal research and short publications.
- Contribute to the proposed Global Guides through defined research questions and relevant sources.
- Explore comparative legal questions, retaining differences, uncertainties and the context of each jurisdiction.
- Help develop short publications through research, source checking and collaborative editorial work.
Before any placement offerPlacements are proposed. Scope, duration, supervision, working hours, payment arrangements and any other terms will be confirmed before any placement offer. An expression of interest is not an offer or a guarantee of a place.
Express interest in a remote internshipProposed programmeGlobal Guides.
Global Guides.
Knowledge across borders.
A proposed comparative research programme connecting worldwide contributions to practical understanding of emerging law. The guides would make different legal approaches visible through a shared set of questions.
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Artificial Intelligence
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Digital Assets
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Blockchain
04
Future of Intellectual Property Rights
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Smart Contracts
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Fintech
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HealthTech
08
Data Protection
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Digital Privacy
10
Consumer Protection in E-commerce
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Digital Ecosystems
A common method.
Clear provenance.
- A shared country-by-country questionnaire
- Named contributors and relevant primary sources
- As-of dates, versions and visible review status
- Questions, uncertainties and differences retained
These are proposed subjects, not published guides or a claim of existing country coverage. Contributions and review arrangements would be agreed before work begins.
Contribute to a Global GuideDevelopment programmeExplore what
Explore what
could come next.
Proposed mechanisms for research, legal and technical design, and potential bounded pilots. These development proposals do not establish an operational token or payment facility, DAO membership or autonomous adjudication service.
01Contributions, outputs,
Proposed development
Contributions, outputs,
charges and payments.
Proposed developmentOne area of proposed work is how contributions and outputs could be recorded, attributed and valued within a collaboration. This includes exploring tokenised arrangements and alternative approaches to charges and payments.
Any such model would need to establish the rights a participant actually receives, the basis of compensation, the applicable regulatory and tax treatment and the terms governing participation.
02Blockchain, smart contracts
Proposed development
Blockchain, smart contracts
and DAO governance.
Proposed developmentBlockchain-based records and smart contracts can be examined as components of an agreement or governance system. A project must identify what the technology does, who controls it and how the arrangement connects to the parties' legal rights and responsibilities.
The legal design should address interpretation, errors, changes, security failures, contested facts, review and enforcement. Automated execution also requires procedures for circumstances that were not adequately captured in the original rules.
DAO-related work would need to examine legal identity, authority, participation, responsibility and accountability in the jurisdictions concerned. A decentralised technical structure does not by itself resolve those questions.
DAO settlement mechanisms are also a proposed field of investigation. Their legal basis, dispute procedures, review and enforceability would need to be established before any implementation.
03Dispute resolution
Proposed development
Dispute resolution
and Justice as a Service.
Proposed developmentJustice as a Service is a proposed area of research and service design concerning how people identify rights, navigate a dispute and obtain an effective remedy.
Possible projects include decision support, the organisation of evidence, dispute-process design and exploration of automated or autonomous components. Any model must address party consent, fairness, independence, professional responsibility, oversight, review and legal enforceability.
A smart contract may automate an agreed step. The surrounding arrangement must also provide for disagreement, error and access to enforceable remedies.
Intellectual foundationsRelated research
Related research
and writing.
Explore the developing research and writing behind this direction.
JUS.automica
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Explore Code, Law and CapitalAn idea. An experience.
A challenge worth sharing.
A brief, non-confidential introduction is enough to begin.