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 […]

Or how the Metaverse Republic can co-exist peacefully with national law and virtual world terms of service whilst being fully independent from both
One of the commonest misconceptions of the Metaverse Republic project is that there is a conflict between, on the one hand, an independent system of law within a virtual world such as […]

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 […]

Hello everybody We have been silent, but working steadily on our Constitution. We’re now examining the best way to implement a voting system in our Constitution, and the Technical Team will start working on it really soon, which is really exciting news.
But there are indeed some news: the Metaverse Republic will be presented at […]

Why did we choose to make the Metaverse Republic a common law system?
There are two kinds of legal systems in the world: common law systems, and civil law systems. In common law systems (which originated in the UK; common law countries include the UK, the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and many other parts of […]

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 […]

Is it really necessary to use a legal system to deal with problems in a virtual world; is it not simpler and easier simply to take mass action and, for example, boycott a dishonest trader or person who misuses land?
Although people have on occasions in the past had some success from direct action, rather than […]

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 […]

After publishing the Executive Summary, and the FAQ of the Metaverse Republic project, we are now publishing the final version of the Founding Charter. There is also a printable PDF version. This final version will remain unchanged unless the Constitutional Team agrees unanimously to modify its terms, and it will be the base on which […]