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Patrick Dahm – That German-Singapore Lawyer

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BeA – Insecure Professional Communication for German Lawyers

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On 6 September 2018

In Law

Start­ing this week Ger­man law­yers have to have avail­able a means of elec­tron­ic com­mu­nic­a­tion developed just for them: the spe­cial elec­tron­ic law­yers’ mail­box (beson­deres elektron­isches Anwalt­s­post­fach or beA). The prob­lem is, the beA is inher­ently insec­ure, which is why it seems bet­ter to avoid using it. This would include not lit­ig­at­ing in a Ger­man court, if pos­sible, if there’s a chance the oppon­ent or the court will use the beA in the pro­ceed­ings. This seems to be all the more indic­ated where there’s a risk of snoopery and foul play by oppon­ents or third parties, or where the stakes are high – and when aren’t they?

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One Card to Bring Them All and in the Dark­ness Bind Them

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Guerrilla Tactics in Arbitration

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On 5 April 2018

In Law

I don’t like how we use the term guer­rilla tac­tics in inter­na­tion­al arbit­ra­tion. Refer­ring to guer­rilla dis­ap­prov­ingly implies meth­ods of tra­di­tion­al war­fare are alright. Artil­lery or old-school tac­tic­al form­a­tions – okay. Sneaky ambushes or hit-and-run attacks – not okay.

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The Place of the Hear­ing at Night

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Gilded with Law

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On 28 March 2018

In Art, Law, Singapore

Priy­ageetha Dia has gil­ded Singa­pore with gold foil, again. And a lot of people have called her urb­an art inter­ven­tion illeg­al, again. But what if she and her art had been on sure leg­al ground all along? What if it wasn’t so clear wheth­er remov­ing her golden flags was law­ful or not?

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Initial Coin Offering: an Inaccurate Term with an Imperfect Regulator

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On 19 March 2018

In Law, Singapore

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No, I Won’t Help You Whitewash Your Token Sale Scam

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On 2 March 2018

In Law

Over lunch the in-house coun­sel of a tech com­pany asked me wheth­er I ever decline work. We were mak­ing small talk, but funny she should ask. Because I have indeed chosen not to work on one or the oth­er ini­tial coin offer­ing or token sale lately.

I do what I do for a liv­ing, so I’m not prone to decline work by default. But these pro­jects didn’t smell right.

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The Efficient Breach of Smart Contracts

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On 13 February 2018

In Law

Smart con­tracts are described as self-execut­ing: how they are formed is how they will be per­formed. This is why some of us see no (or at least less) room for leg­al dis­pute over them.

It shouldn’t be this way. Where it’s effi­cient, it should be pos­sible to breach a smart con­tract. Even though this may lead to a leg­al dis­pute.

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The Arts and the Law in Singapore

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On 7 February 2018

In Art, Law, Singapore

Last Fri­day we were cel­eb­rat­ing the offi­cial open­ing of our new office, arts and enter­tain­ment law firm that we are. This is the speech I gave before the party took off.

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Legal Maverick in the Spotlight 

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On 23 January 2018

In Law

The oth­er day someone called me a leg­al mav­er­ick. 🙂

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Ten Common Causes of Conflicts within Small Businesses (And How to Fix Them)

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On 4 April 2017

In Law

The good people of Asia Law Net­work have pub­lished this little piece of mine on con­flicts with­in small busi­nesses. It’s here.

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Con­flict?

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The Shire of Christmas Island

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On 19 March 2017

In Travel

It was time for me to go diving again, so I betook myself to Christ­mas Island, this extern­al ter­rit­ory of Aus­tralia in the Indi­an Ocean. Under water I encountered sharks, dol­phins and oth­er creatures of the sea. Above water I went hik­ing, climb­ing and bird­watch­ing in hon­our of the words of someone very dear to me: ‘Take many pic­tures, do many things you don’t get to do in Singa­pore and remem­ber each and every one of them.’

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The Art of Walking a Fine and Golden Line

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On 12 March 2017

In Art, Law, Singapore

Was Priy­ageetha Dia’s golden stair­case art or van­dal­ism? Wrong ques­tion, in my view. Some­thing can be both. Just that this art wasn’t.

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Suits Is Real

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On 11 February 2017

In TV

As an object of my fan ador­a­tion. Ah, the enter­tain­ment. You have to love Suits, the TV series, and the par­al­lel uni­verse it cre­ates. Someone on the inter­net called it shal­low. Well, yeah, it isn’t Dostoyevsky, but who wants to read Rus­si­an lit­er­at­ure all the time!?

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Smartifying Blockchains, Legally

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On 23 January 2017

In Law

Yes, block­chain tech­no­logy can do things which con­ven­tion­al ledgers or registers can­not do. A few days ago I argued that this didn’t mean block­chain should replace tra­di­tion­al ways of record­ing leg­al trans­ac­tions whole­sale. Tra­di­tion­al ways of record­ing leg­al trans­ac­tions embed func­tions which block­chains don’t embed yet. Where the law demands it or wherever else it makes sense we should think about imple­ment­ing them.

Here’s in more detail what I had in mind.

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Blockchain: The Roll of Deeds of the Internet

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On 13 January 2017

In Law

After read­ing Caitlin Moon’s instruct­ive blog Block­chain 101 for Law­yers I com­men­ted that we should ‘think of it as a cybernot­ary who can authen­tic­ate — everything’.

I’ve changed my mind.

For the avoid­ance of doubt, I’m all for catchy ana­lo­gies. They help under­stand much of what’s going on in cyber­space. Even bet­ter than a catchy ana­logy, though, is an ana­logy that’s catchy and apt.

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How Do We Resolve Disputes? What’s with Those Algorithms?

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On 10 January 2017

In Law

This really very long and quasi-aca­dem­ic post is based on a speech I gave to MBA stu­dents of the Man­age­ment Devel­op­ment Insti­tute of Singa­pore some­time in 2016. Sub­ject: how do we resolve dis­putes and what bor­ders, geo­graph­ic­al or oth­er­wise, do we cross in doing so? Bor­ders and oth­er­wise, ged­dit, I was talk­ing about dis­pute res­ol­u­tion in cyber­space and algorithms.

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Singapore to Ratify Hague Convention on Choice of Court Agreements

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On 10 May 2016

In Law, Singapore

My piece on Singapore’s rat­i­fic­a­tion of the Hag­ue Con­ven­tion on Choice of Court Agree­ments on Peter Bert’s dis­pute res­ol­u­tion blog.

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Security in Cyberspace, Fifty Years into Its Colonisation

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On 15 April 2016

In Law

The space where all data exchange and com­mu­nic­a­tion of the Inter­net hap­pens, cyber­space, is neut­ral. Noth­ing insec­ure adheres to it in and of itself. Insec­ur­ity is brought in by man who pop­u­lates cyber­space, and by the tools that he has brought along. So how to regain secur­ity in this space – cyber­se­cur­ity?

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Singapurischer Internationaler Handelsgerichtshof eröffnet

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On 7 January 2015

In Law, Singapore

Anfang 2015 ist der Singapur­ische Inter­na­tionale Han­dels­gericht­shof (Singa­pore Inter­na­tion­al Com­mer­cial Court oder SICC)  eröffnet worden. Das Gericht ist als Teil des singapur­ischen Supreme Court für inter­na­tionale Han­dels­sachen zuständig und ver­eint schiedsgericht­liche und gericht­liche Ele­mente. Singapur will dam­it seine Pos­i­tion als inter­na­tionales Streit­sch­lich­tung­szen­trum aus­bauen.

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‘Language’ Difficulties between Civil Law and Common Law

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On 28 November 2014

In Law

Parties to a leg­al dis­pute may believe they under­stand each other’s legalese or the leg­al ‘etiquette’ applic­able. When really they don’t. This may hap­pen when a party from a civil law jur­is­dic­tion sets foot in a com­mon law envir­on­ment, or vice versa. In inter­na­tion­al arbit­ra­tion pro­ceed­ings, for example.

Appar­ently the High Court of Singa­pore had to decide a case just like this.

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A Grain of Civil Law – Some (Not So) New Chords for the International Arbitration Jazz

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On 1 October 2014

In Law

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Faster, cheap­er

Inter­na­tion­al arbit­ra­tion has a prob­lem: pro­ceed­ings that take too long and are too expens­ive. To help solve this we should com­bine the best aspects of civil law and com­mon law pro­ced­ure bet­ter.

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The Midnight Clause in International Arbitration

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On 18 June 2014

In Law

This is my speech at the In-house Con­gress in Jakarta, Indone­sia, on 23 April 2014. It was on why it’s import­ant your com­mer­cial con­tracts con­tain an arbit­ra­tion clause that works well.

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What’s this?

This is the blog I keep when I don’t prac­tise law. Or yoga.

I’m a law­yer – a Ger­man Rechts­an­walt and for­eign prac­ti­tion­er – in Singa­pore. I prac­tise cor­por­ate and com­mer­cial law, IT or cyber­law, and arbit­ra­tion.

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