Computational Law & Blockchain Festival — Keynote Address

Delivered the keynote address at the inaugural Computational Law & Blockchain Festival — a distributed academic gathering exploring the intersection of computational legal systems, smart contracts, decentralized dispute resolution, and blockchain-enabled legal infrastructure. The keynote addressed the near-term questions practicing lawyers and legal technologists would need to resolve as blockchain moved from experimentation to enterprise adoption: what smart contracts can and cannot do from a legal-enforceability perspective, how blockchain-based records interact with traditional evidentiary standards, and where computational legal automation fits within existing ethics and unauthorized-practice-of-law frameworks.