Decentralized Autonomous Organizations in the Legal Landscape

Edited by Florence Guillaume () and Sven Riva ()

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Abstract: This forward-looking book examines the concept and legal status of Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs). Based on blockchain technology, DAOs disrupt traditional thinking around corporate structure and organizational governance. This book explores the challenges posed by DAOs in both technological and legal perspectives and discuss how they are regulated across Europe and the USA.

Keywords: Decentralized Autonomous Organization (Dao); Decentralized Finance (Defi); Blockchain-Based Organization; Algorithmically-Managed Companies; Decentralized Governance; Dao Legal Wrappers; Innovation Regulation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035341610
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 Adapting the legal landscape for DAOs

Florence Guillaume

Ch 2 Notion of DAO: transforming digital code into a legal entity

Florence Guillaume

Ch 3 Connecting worlds: reconciling DAOs and traditional organizations for better collective governance

Anne-Grace Kleczewski

Ch 4 The quest for appropriate regulation of DAOs

Sabine Van Haecke Lepic

Ch 5 The DAO between the nation-state and the network state

Filippo Zatti

Ch 6 The DAO: from the first big cryptocurrency craze to a new era of legal frameworks

Florence Guillaume and Sven Riva

Ch 7 Is there a need for regulation of DAOs in Switzerland?

Rolf H. Weber

Ch 8 Incorporating DAOs in Switzerland

Michael Kunz and Kiril R. R. Haslebacher

Ch 9 Why DAOs choose Switzerland

Liburn Mehmetaj

Ch 10 The regulation of DAOs from a French perspective

Marina Teller

Ch 11 DAOs under Portuguese Law: current framework and perspectives for future regulation

António Garcia Rolo

Ch 12 The regulation of DAOs from a German perspective

Anja von Rosenstiel

Ch 13 Towards a European legal form for DAOs?

Florian Möslein and Daniel Ostrovski

Ch 14 DAOs and innovative regulation: reconciling corporate and blockchain-based organizational models

Madalena Perestrelo de Oliveira

Ch 15 Managing cross-border DeFi DAOs in the EU: legal complexities and regulatory perspectives

Biyan Mienert

Ch 16 A DAO regulatory mapping with application to a contestable control approach to DAO governance

Jeff Strnad

Ch 17 Integrating decentralized finance mechanisms with DAOs: decentralized exchanges between liquidity and autonomous governance

Claude Humbel

Ch 18 AI-driven DAOs

Ori Shimony

Ch 19 DAOs by example

Joshua Tan

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