{"id":7,"date":"2017-08-10T14:36:45","date_gmt":"2017-08-10T14:36:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/?page_id=7"},"modified":"2019-06-14T12:21:52","modified_gmt":"2019-06-14T12:21:52","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Welcome to the Blockchain &amp; Society Policy Research Lab, hosted by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ivir.nl\/\">Institute for Information Law<\/a>, at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uva.nl\/\">University of Amsterdam<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img src=\"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/logo_inverse_transparent.png\"  \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>We study the societal impact of blockchain technologies from a law and policy perspective.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We are thinking about questions such as:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>How are blockchain applications governed? What internal factors contribute to the success of a blockchain application?<\/li><li>How do different societal domains deal with blockchain technologies and their potential disruptive effect?<\/li><li>What are the most important regulatory issues around blockchain applications, and what are our policy alternatives?<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>With our methods we try to follow an interdisciplinary approach that integrates legal, social, political, economic, and technological discourses to describe a complex techno-social phenomenon. If we had to find a quote that best represents our approach, the one from Ferdinand Braudel would be the one:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">&#8220;Whether one is writing about 1558 or the year of Our Lord&nbsp;<\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">1958, if one wants to understand the world, one has to determine&nbsp;<\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">the hierarchy of forces, currents, and individual movements, and then put them together to form an overall constellation. Throughout, one must distinguish between long-term movements and mo<\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">mentary pressures, finding the immediate sources of the latter and the long-term thrust of the former.&#8221;&nbsp;&#8211; Braudel, Fernand, and Immanuel Wallerstein. \u201cHistory and the Social Sciences: The Longue Dur\u00e9e.\u201d&nbsp;<i>Review (Fernand Braudel Center)<\/i>, vol. 32, no. 2, 2009, pp. 171\u2013203.&nbsp;<i>JSTOR<\/i>, JSTOR, www.jstor.org\/stable\/40647704.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the Blockchain &amp; Society Policy Research Lab, hosted by the Institute for Information Law, at the University of Amsterdam. We study the societal impact of blockchain technologies from a law and policy perspective. We are thinking about questions such as: How are blockchain applications governed? What internal factors contribute to the success of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1372,"href":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7\/revisions\/1372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}