In this special episode of Law.com's Unprecedented podcast, we talk with Aaron Wright, an associate clinical professor at Cardozo Law School in New York City and director of the school's Blockchain Project. Cardozo has been significantly expanding its initiatives with the technology since 2014, helping major blockchain projects like Ethereum and teaching its students how to code smart contracts. Wright talks about his forthcoming book co-authored with Primavera De Filippi of Harvard's Berkman Klein Center, “Blockchain and the Law: The Rule of Code,” and what blockchain will mean for the legal profession—beyond the hype.

“A lot like how Bitcoin and Ethereum and these other projects have forced us to reexamine how value gets transferred, [blockchain technology] is also going to force lawyers to think about how they actually construct their commercial relationships, for their clients and for society at large,” Wright says. Listen to the interview above, or on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, or Libsyn.