Over the course of the last decade there have been several opinions on the reconciliation between "smart contract" systems and existing bodies of law.
This is complex because:
(1) Smart contracts do not always work as described or desired, and thus it is easy to deviate from intent
(2) Many of the implementation areas of blockchain go into areas that explicitly violate existing laws (e.g. various types of work)
(3) Many of the design decisions of standard blockchains solutions are global in scope and emphasize being resilient against "interference" by regional jurisdictions rather than integrate into them.
(4) Some of the "autonomous" possibilities of applications run contrary to the standard human first ideas of ethics
(5) Clear decisions by regulatory authorities about how to treat the technology often lag the initial implementation by 3-5 years in the best case
We present the most important work of the blockchain community on the trade of and possible integration points between existing legal systems and cryptographically secure ledgers.
1994
Nick Szabo, Smart Contracts http://www.fon.hum.uva.nl/rob/Courses/InformationInSpeech/CDROM/Literature/LOTwinterschool2006/szabo.best.vwh.net/smart.contracts.html
1998
Nick Szabo, Secure Property Titles with Owner Authority https://nakamotoinstitute.org/secure-property-titles/
2006
Nick Szabo, Wet Code http://unenumerated.blogspot.com/2006/11/wet-code-and-dry.html
2009
https://www.amazon.com/DAEMON-Daemon-Daniel-Suarez/dp/0451228731
2013 Larimer, DACs Revisited
https://letstalkbitcoin.com/dac-revisited
2014 Vitalik Buterin, "DAOs, DACs, DAs and More: An Incomplete Terminology Guide,"
https://blog.ethereum.org/2014/05/06/daos-dacs-das-and-more-an-incomplete-terminology-guide/
2015
Distributed Collaborative Organizations
https://www.shareable.net/blog/interviewed-joel-dietz-on-distributed-collaborative-organizations
First Coincenter
Houman Shadab, "Empowering Distributed Autonomous Companies"
https://lawbitrage.typepad.com/blog/2015/02/empowering-distributed-autonomous-companies.html
2017
SEC DAO ruling, (https://www.sec.gov/litigation/investreport/34-81207.pdf)
Gav Wood on Alegality
PdF + cardoso papers
http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674976429
2018
Coin Center Framework
https://coincenter.org/entry/framework-for-securities-regulation-of-cryptocurrencies
2019
Vlad Zamfir For a new crypto legal system
https://medium.com/cryptolawreview/against-szabos-law-for-a-new-crypto-legal-system-d00d0f3d3827