Cryptocurrencies and the Regulatory Challenge

This book proposes an approach to regulating cryptocurrency that recognises and retains its innovative and transformative potential, but also identifies and deals with some of its less appealing qualities and implications.

List of contents

1. LAW'S REGULATORY VALUE AND VIRTUE: AN INTRODUCTION TO THE CRYPTO-WORLD


2. INTO THE CRYPTO WORLD: PROBLEMATICS, PITFALLS AND PROSPECTS


3. OF PIGEONS, PROPERTY AND VIRTUALITIES: A TAXONOMIC TEASER


4. CURRENCY, COMMODITIES AND SECURITIES: SQUARE PEGS AND ROUND HOLES


5. A SELF-REGULATED WORLD: A POLITICAL EXERCISE


6. THE REGULATORY CHALLENGE: TOWARDS A COLLABORATIVE APPROACH


7. TAKING REGULATION SERIOUSLY: A CRYPTO REGIME OF ITS OWN


8. AN EFFORT AT CRYPTO-REGULATION: GETTING SMARTER


9. GETTING WITH THE PROGRAM: GOVERNANCE AND RESPONSIBILITY


10. PAYING THE PRICE: SOME CONCLUDING THOUGHTS

About the author

Allan C. Hutchinson is Distinguished Research Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Toronto, Canada

Summary

This book proposes an approach to regulating cryptocurrency that recognises and retains its innovative and transformative potential, but also identifies and deals with some of its less appealing qualities and implications.

Product details

• Authors: Allan C. Hutchinson, Hutchinson Allan C.
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.01.2024
• EAN: 9781032118994
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3211899-4
• No. of pages: 146
• Series: Routledge Research in the Law of Emerging Technologies
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > General, dictionaries; LAW / Banking, LAW / Communications, LAW / Computer & Internet, Systems of law, Banking law, IT and Communications law / Postal laws and regulations, IT & Communications law