CS 352B/LAW 1078: Blockchain Governance
Spring 2024
This course offers an overview of blockchain governance and Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs), with topics including DAO tooling, on-chain and off-chain voting, delegation, constitutional design, alternative governance mechanisms, identity, and privacy.
We will cover these topics and others from technical, social science, and legal perspectives, and we will include a range of guests from the web3 space who are on the frontiers of DAO research and practice.
The course will rely on lectures, readings from academia and the mainstream business press, and guest speakers as the means for transmitting a large part of the material. The course will rely on lectures, readings from academia and the mainstream business press, and guest speakers as the means for transmitting a large part of the material. Course readings will primarily be based on freely available online sources, and the specific reading list will be listed on the Canvas Syllabus.
For each class, you'll submit a brief written response to questions on Canvas. This one-page response to the questions is due by 11:00am the day of class and can be unpolished and in bullet point format.
As this course builds on prior sessions and is discussion oriented, regular class attendance is mandatory. Any absence needs to be excused. Adequate participation is required to pass the course. Please note that if you need to miss class you must notify us by email before the session or within one hour after class ends. You are allowed 2 absences without penalty.
There will be a midterm and a final paper for this course, both to be completely individually.
For the Midterm Paper, please write an 8 - 10 page, double-spaced paper (excluding footnotes/citation), on one of the prompts provided on Canvas. The midterm is due Sunday 5/5, 11:59pm on Canvas as a PDF/Word file or Google Doc link.
Final Paper details TBA.
Your course grade will be based on the written assignments, midterm paper, and final paper. Every person has three discrete late days in total that can be applied to the written assignments, midterm paper, and final paper. Your course grade will be weighted as follows:
Email course staff at: cs352b-staff@scs.stanford.edu