The Metaverse Republic

Thanks to Colleen Kesey, the Metaverse Republic has some lovely new headquarters in the “Tabula Rasa” private estate. The island is dedicated to law and legal education, and has some delightful buildings and features.
The headquarters features conference facilities, art by Aeleen Tompsen (of Another Shade of Blue and member of the Constitutional Team), a world […]

Two very interesting articles lately thrown in the blogosphere by VirtuallyBlind and Terranova. The first one, written by Farnaz Alemi (Latham & Watkins LLP), can be found on UCLA Law Tech Journal and was reviewed by Benjamin on VirtuallyBlind. Ashcroft Burnham, one of the founders of the Metaverse Republic, has been challenging many of the […]

Vulcano is a very special sim on Second Life. Vulcano is the living example of the fact that the tragedy of the commons, given certain conditions, can be beaten. David Orban, who likes to call himself the “instigator” of the community rather than the creator, started Vulcano with the only rule of “be free”. Members […]

The Italian magazine dedicated to Second Life, called “2L Italia”, has published a very well written article on what the Metaverse Republic is, and what we’re doing. You can download a PDF copy of the magazine (in Italian) by going to their website. Many thanks to Paola Pandolfini aka Papper Papp for the very appreciated […]

Back from London a few days ago, it was great! We had a chance to present the Metaverse Republic to a unique audience of professors, lawyers and community specialists, and the feedback was extremely positive. For more information about the conference overall, which was wonderfully organized and very interesting, the best source is the blog […]

Draxtor Despres of Life4U TV Magazine made a really good episode on Al Andalus, that is, as Michel Manen recently explained to SLNN, a community which “will be built on authentic Islamic law, legal and political principles but integrating principles of dignity, equality, democracy, participation and human rights.”
You can watch it in-world or on YouTube. […]

For those of you who were not able to be at Metanomics07 session of last night, here’s the link to SLCN coverage of the event: http://www.slcn.tv/metanomics-anti-social-contracts. The speech was very interesting, as well as the questions from the audience (especially Professor Bloomfield’s follow-up questions, and Benjamin Duranske’s question about identity portability).
Professor Farfield also wrote a […]

A suggestion for anybody who’s interested in virtual law is to attend today’s event of the Metanomics 07 series, where Professor Joshua Farfield from the Indiana Laq Faculty will speak about “Anti-social contracts in Virtual Worlds“. The event will take place at 11 am SLT on the Metaversed island. IM 57 Miles or Beyers Sellers […]

Today starts Metanomics 2007, a series of event run by Metaversed (among the first to publish a story about the Metaverse Republic) in collaboration with Cornell University, Johnson School of Management. Professor Robert Bloomfield (aka Beyers Sellers on Second Life) and Nick Wilson will be introducing the series today, at 11 AM SLT/PST, with a […]

A quick word to welcome all the new members of the teams of the Metaverse Republic. The Constitutional Team has now 7 members, who already started working with us in the last two meetings. The Management Team is about to formalize the recruitment of 5 more members, taking the total number to 8 members, right […]