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Aaron Wright is an Associate Clinical Professor of Law at Cardozo Law School and is the Director of Cardozo’s Blockchain Project. Professor Wright’s research focuses on blockchain technology, and in particular smart contracts, decentralized organizations, and the regulation of autonomous code-based systems. He is co-author of the book Blockchain & the Law: The Rule of Code (Harvard University Press). Professor Wright has assisted a number of blockchain-related projects--including the Ethereum Foundation, ConsenSys, Filament, and BlockApps—and is the co-founder of the smart contracts-based project OpenLaw (http://www.openlaw.io). He is the chair of the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance Legal Industry Working Group, serves an academic fellow at Coincenter, and is an editor of Ledger.