Niall is Head of Distributed Systems Engineering at Mishcon de Reya LLP and CTO-in-Residence and a Senior Teaching Fellow at the UCL School of Management. He is a researcher at the UCL Centre for Blockchain Technologies and is on the TechComm for the Hedera Hashgraph. Niall teaches AP fundamentals as part of a Smart Legal Contracts module at the LTIC. Niall has been actively involved at trying to innovate with and expand awareness and adoption of AP.
Short Personal Pitch
I hope to continue to spread awareness and adoption of AP within industry and Academia. I helped to co-write the first paper submission to an international conference in the area of Programming Languages for the Law along with some other papers referencing AP. I have been teaching AP fundamentals to lawyers and students and also trying to innovate using Machine Learning to auto generate Concerto and Ergo from contract templates see https://github.com/accordproject/labs-cicero-classify.
Nomination 🗳️
Nominee Name
Niall Roche @niallroche
Nominated By
Matt Roberts
Short Personal Bio
Niall is Head of Distributed Systems Engineering at Mishcon de Reya LLP and CTO-in-Residence and a Senior Teaching Fellow at the UCL School of Management. He is a researcher at the UCL Centre for Blockchain Technologies and is on the TechComm for the Hedera Hashgraph. Niall teaches AP fundamentals as part of a Smart Legal Contracts module at the LTIC. Niall has been actively involved at trying to innovate with and expand awareness and adoption of AP.
Short Personal Pitch
I hope to continue to spread awareness and adoption of AP within industry and Academia. I helped to co-write the first paper submission to an international conference in the area of Programming Languages for the Law along with some other papers referencing AP. I have been teaching AP fundamentals to lawyers and students and also trying to innovate using Machine Learning to auto generate Concerto and Ergo from contract templates see https://github.com/accordproject/labs-cicero-classify.
I endeavour to continue to promote the use of AP with DLTs such as Hedera HashGraph (https://github.com/niallroche/nft-royalty-agreement https://devpost.com/software/nft-royalty-distribution) and to explore new approaches to implement smart legal contract logic.