4-Week Curriculum Overview

[tenfinney]

Break down the issues into small enough chunks for 2-3 people to engage over 4 wks or crammed into a full week.

Proposed format for the Wyoming caselaw review

split students into pairs (https://www.tutorialspoint.com/extreme_programming/extreme_programming_pair_programming.htm) pref 1 legal with 1 coder (legal engineer)

Wk 1 Overview of legal engineering. Allow them to select from a set of prepared briefs. Research the relevant law

Wk 2 They present findings of legal research. Mentors quiz them on situation when portions are replaced with algorithms, what are human conflicts. Ask them to do risk analysis

Wk 3 Show how better design can mitigate or eliminate risks.

Wk 4 they prepare new brief based on existing crypto disputes putting into traditional legal language / concepts.

Roundup, what is the gap between legal positivism (what the legal code attempts to say is the "standard" of conduct) and legal realism (what is actually happening).

Skills acquired:

a) legal research - from brief, identify relevant, related pieces of legislation and caselaw b) scenario analysis - envisage all the things that could go wrong (people die, code buggy, etc) and likely impact c) legal reasoning - functional equivalence between algorithm / process and outcome (eg if a token is convertible, priority redeemable, and pegged to fiat, should be treated as debt) d) key issues for stare decidis ... given a problem, identify what is the hinge element(edited)

[drllau]

There are 3 difficulty levels of problem briefs. For intensive 1wk workshop may be feasible to take a single medhigh case and get legal engineers to implement different facets and play outcome on testnet.