When Code Goes to Court: Smart Contracts and the Future of International Arbitration
Article from: TDM 1 (2026), in Blockchain, Cryptocurrencies
Executive Summary
The Adaptive Normative Transnational Private Governance (ANTPG) framework integrates the fundamental aspects of Rough Consensus and Running Code with bottom-up lawmaking and global pluralism. The research examines how smart contracts operate within international arbitration systems using the ANTPG framework, which serves as a proposed digital dispute resolution system. The execution of smart contracts through blockchain code generates legal problems that surpass those of state-based systems, as it introduces novel challenges regarding contract formation, consent, ...











