5 THE ITALIAN LAW JOURNAL NO. 2 (2019) The Enforceability of Smart Contracts by Mateja Durovic and Franciszek Lech The development of new technologies has different effects on the existing law. Smart contracts are one of the forms of the new technologies that questions the application of the traditional contract law on commercial transactions using smart contracts. Italy was among the first jurisdictions to recognize full legal validity and enforceability of smart contracts. However, this issue is still being discussed in the United Kingdom. In that context, the enforceability of contractual transactions concluded in the form of smart contracts represents one of the major legal questions. Moreover, the question is whether the existing English contract law needs to be modified in order to secure the enforceability of smart contracts. These issues will be accordingly examined in this paper with the aim to understand better the relationship of the traditional contract law, on the one side, and, smart contracts, on the other side. DOI 10.23815/2421-2156.ITALJ ISSN 2421-2156
