Foundational Video & Audio Lessons & Quizzes (Classes 1.1 through 5.2). Select a class below to listen to the audio/video lesson, review the curriculum summary, and complete the class assessment.
Listen to full audio lectures, Socratic dialogues, and legal engineering episodes directly on Spotify.
Legal Engineering 101 courseware is designed strictly from the bottom up—crystallizing scaled, repeatable patterns as they organically emerge from weekly Socratic Events, Google Hangout calls, and member discussions.
Explores how legal obligations shift from dormant paper records to active performance states verified upon condition triggers.
Defines software runtimes, virtual machines, and execution environments as deterministic engines processing input instructions.
Applies the composer and musical score metaphor to legal engineering—designing state structures and covenants prior to execution.
Examines Nick Szabo's principles on how smart contracts and cryptographic protocols reduce human trust and social transaction costs.
Traces the history of Generalized Markup Language (GML) created by lawyer Charles Goldfarb, laying the legal foundation for HTML, XML, and structured data.
Analyzes how Nick Szabo solved the validator incentive problem by hardcoding gas fees as programmatic legal consideration into state machine execution.
Introduces computational legalese and the architectural separation between executable instruction code and underlying state asset data.
Deconstructs fundamental data primitives—strings, fixed-point numbers, and booleans—that encode legal terms into machine-evaluated conditions.
Examines the paradigm shift from passive legal spreadsheets to self-executing active scripts that automatically monitor and enforce performance state transitions.
Analyzes typing domains, data validation bounds, and compiler-level type checking that prevent invalid or out-of-range covenant state executions.