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LexDAO is an organization founded in 2021 composed of legal professionals who specialize in the intersection of law and blockchain technology. Their work centers on integrating traditional legal frameworks with blockchain-based systems to enhance the efficiency, transparency, and fairness of legal processes.
This integration often involves the use of coded contracts and decentralized ledger technologies. LexDAO engages in various activities, including research and development in legal engineering, training initiatives, and advocacy for open-source law and blockchain-based dispute resolution. They also collaborate with educational institutions and nonprofits, focusing on student-led projects and the advancement of public goods, and provide consultancy services in web3 development and decentralized organizational structures.
LexDAO is on CER as we consider the legal dimension to be a crucial layer of action for the design and empowerment of Commons infrastructure worldwide, as well as a form of defense against the hegemonic powers that always have weaponized the law against them.
Legal engineering is an important emerging subset of this sector, enabling communities and organizations to develop more sophisticated mechanisms at the intersection of law, governance, culture and economics, and LexDAO is promoting the discipline with a global distributed organization already involving hundreds of law experts, tackling a broad range of cases and also providing pro bono services for low income individuals and poor communities.