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The aim of this book is to understand the technological and business potential of the blockchain technology and to reflect on its legal challenges, providing an unparalleled critical analysis of the disruptive potential of this technology for the economy and the legal system.
List of contents
- Regulating Blockchain: Techno-Social and Legal Challenges - An Introduction
- Part I: Technological and Business Challenges of Blockchain Technology
- 1: Paolo Tasca and Riccardo Piselli: The Blockchain Paradox
- 2: Aaron Wright and Jonathan Rohr: Blockchains, Private Ordering and The Future of Governance
- 3: Angela Walch: In Code(rs) We Trust: Software Developers as Fiduciaries in Public Blockchains
- Part II: Blockchain and the Future of Money
- 4: Stefan Eich: Old Utopias, New Tax Havens: The Politics of Bitcoin in Historical Perspective
- 5: Claus D. Zimmermann: Monetary Policy in the Digital Age
- 6: Georgios Dimitropoulos: Global Currencies and Domestic Regulation: Embedding through Enabling?
- 7: Philipp Hacker: Corporate Governance for Complex Cryptocurrencies? A Framework for Stability and Decision Making in Blockchain-Based Organizations
- Part III: Blockchain and the Future of Banking, Finance, Insurance and Securities Regulation
- 8: Rohan Grey: Banking in a Digital Fiat Currency Regime
- 9: Jonathan Greenacre: Regulating the Shadow Payment System: Bitcoin, Mobile Money and Beyond
- 10: Michael Abramowicz: Blockchain-Based Insurance
- 11: Alexandros Seretakis: Blockchain, Securities Markets and Central Banking
- 12: Philipp Hacker and Chris Thomale: The Crypto-Security: Initial Coin Offerings and EU Securities Regulation
- 13: Houman Shadab: Regulation of Blockchain Token Sales in the United States
- Part IV: Beyond Finance: Blockchain as a legal and regulatory challenge
- 14: Agnieszka Janczuk-Gorywoda: Blockchain and Payment Systems: A Tale about Re-Intermediation
- 15: Florian Möslein: Conflicts of Laws and Codes: Defining the Boundaries of Digital Jurisdictions
- 16: Pietro Ortolani: The Judicialisation of Blockchain
- 17: Roger Brownsword: Smart Contracts: Coding the Transaction, Decoding the Legal Debates
- Part V: Connecting the Dots: Competitive Advantage and Regulation in the Era of Blockchain
- 18: Ioannis Lianos: Blockchain Competition. Gaining Competitive Advantage in the Digital Economy: Competition Law Implications
About the author
Philipp Hacker, LL.M. (Yale), is a postdoctoral fellow at the law department of Humboldt University of Berlin, an A.SK Fellow at WZB Berlin Social Sciences Center and a Research Fellow at the Centre for Blockchain Technologies and at the Centre for Law, Economics and Society, both at UCL.
Ioannis Lianos holds the chair of global competition law and policy at UCL Laws. He is also Director of the Centre for Law, Economics and Society and Executive Director of the Jevons Institute of Competition Law and Economics. He was awarded a Gutenberg Research chair at the Ecole Nationale d'Administration (ENA), the elite public administration school of the French republic in November 2011 and was appointed in 2015 chief researcher at the Skolkovo Institute for Law and Development, the leading innovation law centre at the Russian Federation. He is also a visiting professor at the University of Chile in Santiago, the Centre for Industrial Property Studies (CEIPI) at the University of Strasbourg and has been an Alexander von Humboldt fellow at the WZB and Humboldt University, Berlin, as well as an Emile Noel fellow at NYU Law School and a visiting fellow at the University of California, Berkeley.
Georgios Dimitropoulos is an Assistant Professor of Law at HBKU College of Law & Public Policy. Georgios studied Law at the University of Athens, and holds an LLM from Yale Law School, and a PhD summa cum laude from the University of Heidelberg.
Stefan Eich is the Perkins-Cotsen Postdoctoral Fellow in the Princeton Society of Fellows and a Lecturer in Politics at Princeton University. Stefan's research interests are in political theory and the history of political thought.
Summary
The aim of this book is to understand the technological and business potential of the blockchain technology and to reflect on its legal challenges, providing an unparalleled critical analysis of the disruptive potential of this technology for the economy and the legal system.
Additional text
Regulating Blockchain is an impressively rich and interdisciplinary collection of essays on all aspects of blockchain development, including cryptocurrencies and other forms of decentralized financial technology. Essential reading for anyone interested in the interaction of law and technology in the financial sector and the possible futures of money, banking, and credit in a globalizing world.
