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   "text": "Assimilation of US legal rules into European regulatory approaches may itself increase transaction costs for the jurisdiction that changes its law.",
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   "text": "Legal Tech's disruptive innovation combined with the principles of the sharing economy requires lawyers and lawmakers to reevaluate their understanding of many areas of law.",
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   "text": "Redesigning legal doctrine around sharing and decentralized peer to peer platforms demands out of the box thinking from a profession whose members were trained, both in law school and across their careers, to think inside the box.",
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   "text": "The regulatory challenges of blockchain based offerings should be addressed by revising federal securities law provisions to recognize digital securities, to permit broad based trading of equity-equivalent digital securities, and to permit their margining.",
   "abstract": "may be in part addressed by revising several federal securities law provisions to allow: (i) recognition of \"digital securities,\" (ii) broad-based trading of equity-equivalent \"digital securities,\" and (iii) margining of \"digital securities.\"",
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