The 2024 Digital Assets Project will host its Annual Conference, both online and in-person at Harris Manchester College (Oxford), on Friday 28th June 2024 at 9:15am-5pm BST (GMT+1) / 5:15pm-1am HKT (GMT+8). This session is aimed to provide attendees an update on current legal scholarship on digital assets, as well as an opportunity to touch base and discuss recent global developments in the space.
This project, which is organised by the Commercial Law Centre, Harris Manchester College, Oxford University, is run by Professor Louise Gullifer and Professor Jennifer Payne, will consider legal issues arising from the holding of assets using distributed ledger and blockchain technology.
Developments in distributed ledger and blockchain technology have led to the emergence of innovative new asset types, such as crypto-currencies, crypto-securities and other tradable crypto-assets, some of which represent assets in the real world, such as gold. The value of these assets, at the moment, is enormous, and their existence raises many important legal questions, which need to be considered both on a national and international basis.
This project brings together an international group of legal experts to consider some of the major legal issues arising from the move towards digital assets. It has two main aims: first, to facilitate and enrich the work that is being done individually by members of the group, and second, to consider specific issues collectively and produce specific outputs.
2019
Global Cryptoassets Regulatory Landscape Study (2019 Cambridge Center for Alternative Finance), A Blandin, S Cloots, H Hussain, M Rauchs, R Saleuddin, J Allen, B Zhang and K Cloud
Property in Digital Coins (2019 European Property Law Journal, 8(1), pp. 64-101), J Allen
Negotiability in digital environments (Butterworths journal of international banking and financial law, July/August 2019 pp. 459 - 463), J Allen
Distributed ledger technology and digital assets - policy and regulatory challenges in Asia, Douglas W. Arner, Ross P. Buckley, Anton Didenko, Cyn-Young Park, Emilija Pashoska, Dirk A. Zetzsche And Bo Zhao
Regulatory Technology - Eight Policy Recommendations (LSE Law - Policy Briefing Paper No. 37, July 22, 2019), E Micheler and J Jiang
The aim of the Centre is to provide an environment for high quality research in all aspects of national, international, transnational, and comparative law, relating to commerce and finance, with scope for particular attention to be paid to emerging markets. The Centre supports interdisciplinary research in these fields, and seeks to provide an opportunity for interaction between academics, practitioners, and policy makers from around the world. The Centre aims to nurture and encourage the researchers of the future in this important area of legal scholarship.
Dr Kristin van Zwieten is the director of the Centre.
The Commercial Law Centre welcomes visiting researchers, and has programmes for visiting academics and junior academics. Further information about the visiting researcher programmes may be found here.
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Cloud Crypto Land, Edmund Schuster
The New Intermediation: Digital Assets, Henry Chong and Charles W. Mooney, Jr
The Legal Nature of Securities Held on a Blockchain, Hin Liu
Insolvency of Crypto-Custodians and Implications for Crypto-Investors, Matthias Haentjens, Tycho de Graff and Ilya Kokorin
Report on UK Task Force Legal Statement on Crypto-Assets and Smart Contracts , D Quest
Report on Possible Scottish Consultation on the Private Law Aspects of Digital Assets , D Fox
Update on the European Commission Consultation on Crypto-Assets , E Noble
Brief Update on UNIDROIT:UNCITRAL Possible Work on Digital Assets , C di Nicola
Swiss Draft Blockchain Act , J Bacharach
Legal and Regulatory Considerations When Designing a Digital Asset Platform, Jason G. Allen & Apolline Blandin
Investor-Intermediary Relationships for Digital Assets, Henry Chong, L. Gullifer, Hin Liu
Segregation of Cryptoassets in Insolvency Proceedings, Jeremy Bacharach, Corinne Zellweger-Gutnecht
Segregation of Cryptoassets in Insolvency Proceedings, Jeremy Bacharach, Corinne Zellweger-Gutknecht (Brief Comments)
Legal and Regulatory Considerations in Designing a Digital Asset Platform , JG Allen, A Blandin
Digital Assets and Registry in Civil Law Jurisdiction , T Rodriguez
Investor-Intermediary Relationship for Digital Assets , Henry Chong, L. Gullifer, Hin Liu
Segregation of Cryptoassets in Insolvency Proceedings , J Bacarach, C Zellweger-Gutknecht
Private International Law Aspects of Derivatives using DLT, Ciaran McGonagle, Dr Peter Werner
The UNIDROIT Project on Digital Assets, H Kanda
Law Commission Project on Digital Assets , S Green
CPMI Work on the Private Law Aspects of Digital Currencies , K Lober
The UNIDROIT Project on Digital Assets , H Kanda
Committee on the Uniform Commercial Code and Emerging Technologies and World Bank’s Initiatives on Integrating Digital Assets and Distributed Ledgers in Credit Ecosystem , M Dubovec and G Castellano
Virtual Asset Sector Regulation, U McCormack
Legal and Regulatory Considerations Around CBDCs, S Gleeson
Commercial Law and Central Bank Digital Currencies, Dr Jo Braithwaite
Acquisition of Title in Digital Assets, L Gullifer and H Liu
The Law Commission’s Work on Digital Assets, S Green
Virtual Asset Sector Regulation , U McCormack & G Castellano
Legal and Regulatory Considerations Around CBDCs & Commercial Law and CBDCs , S Gleeson & J Braithwaite
Acquisition of Title in Digital Assets, L Gullifer, H. Lin, M Haentjens & C Mooney; The Law Commission’s Work on Digital Assets , S Green & D Fox
Japanese Law on Cryptoassets, H Kanda
UNIDROIT Project on the Private Law of Digital Assets, L Gullifer
A Project on Digital Property and Finance in Europe, H Marjosola
Recordings
Japanese Law on Cryptoassets, H Kanda
UNIDROIT Project on the Private Law of Digital Assets, L Gullifer
Commission Project on Digital Assets, S Green & M Kimber
Project on Digital Property and Finance in Europe, H Marjosola
Code is Not Law: Regulating Hacks, Exploits and Security Issues with Smart Contracts and Decentralised Autonomous Organisations, Associate Professor Hannah Yee-Fen Lim
Discussion of "Code is Not Law: Regulating Hacks, Exploits and Security Issues with Smart Contracts and Decentralised Autonomous Organisations", Professor Edmund Schuster
Digital Assets: Climate Killers or Savers?, Michel Rauchs
Regulating ICOs, Professor Iris Chiu
New Wine in Old Wineskins: Adapting the Law for the New Digital Economy, The Honourable Justice Philip Jeyaretnam
Code is Not Law: Regulating Hacks, Exploits and Security Issues with Smart Contracts and Decentralised Autonomous Organisations, Associate Professor Hannah Yee-Fen Lim
Discussion of "Code is Not Law: Regulating Hacks, Exploits and Security Issues with Smart Contracts and Decentralised Autonomous Organisations", Professor Edmund Schuster
Digital Assets: Climate Killers or Savers?, Michel Rauchs
Regulating ICOs, Professor Iris Chiu
