Interactive Relationship and Law in the Metaverse
Abstract The essence of the Metaverse lies in the inter-subjectivity revealed by phenomenology. The many-worlds model reveals the significance of interaction and communication for digital human existence. The Metaverse exhibits a rhizomatic structure of narrative from multiple small universe interpretations, particularly the cross-embedding and close coupling between digital relational orders and analog legal orders formed through interface revolution. Virtuality-reality interfacing permits rational design based on exchange concepts, yielding twelve fundamental digital-age juridical propositions from subject interaction ordering mechanisms. These propositions indicate that with consumer sovereignty and distributed autonomous organizations, the Metaverse will transform order principles. A corridor system connecting cyberspace to off-chain society will be built using code and smart contracts as dual interfaces, producing varied relationship-law combinations.
Authors
- W. Ji (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1110-5900)
Institutions
- Shanghai Jiao Tong University (CN)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Asian Journal of Law and Society
- Published
- 2025-10-14
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1017/als.2025.10026
- Primary Topic
- Law in Society and Culture
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00