Code on Trial: AI, Crypto and the Law in Dispute

Code on Trial: AI, Crypto and the Law in Dispute

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The Twenty-Eight Day Problem
The CFTC has begun writing the crypto market structure rules the Senate declined to enact. The Commodity Exchange Act gives it an antifraud provision…
 • Nick Rowles-Davies
Defending the Peg
Jump Trading must face the bulk of a proposed securities class action over the Terra collapse, on a ruling reported on 3 September in Patterson v…
 • Nick Rowles-Davies
The €17.5 Million Prompt
A chatbot search, a 102-metre Lürssen and the oldest question in agency law
 • Nick Rowles-Davies
Someone Else’s Legal Opinion
The Premier League, Sorare, and the reach of Part 5
 • Nick Rowles-Davies
Trading the Gap
The SDNY complaints need no securities classification. MiCA and MAR would miss the perpetual for a different reason
 • Nick Rowles-Davies
The Comparator Problem
An Illinois court has been asked to stop the state’s first-in-the-nation digital asset tax before it takes effect on 1 January 2027.
 • Nick Rowles-Davies
The Chat Log and the Expert's Method
Judge Rakoff ruled in February that a criminal defendant’s exchanges with a consumer AI chatbot were protected by neither the attorney-client privilege…
 • Nick Rowles-Davies
Three Counts Section 107 Cannot Answer
The Seattle Times and Newsday sued OpenAI and Microsoft in the Southern District of New York on 4 September.1 Seven counts, of which three are trademark…
 • Nick Rowles-Davies
Approved: Founder Liability and the Provenance Problem
Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell have sued Anthropic PBC and named Dario Amodei and Benjamin Mann as individual defendants.1 The corporate…
 • Nick Rowles-Davies
Pricing the Unobservable: Compute Derivatives and the Limits of Market Surveillance
A request, not a rule
 • Nick Rowles-Davies

August 2026

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