Regulating blockchain’s offspring – digital currency, tokens and organisations
Blockchain technology is here to stay and causing a stir, particularly in one of its best-known applications, cryptocurrency.
But how should governments deal with all the emerging phenomena of blockchain? In particular, how should this financial technology, plus other manifestations such as the Decentralised Autonomous Organisation (DAO) be regulated nationally and across borders?
Our four keynote speakers, all global academic blockchain experts, will probe these and other questions.
Keynote speakers
Lee Reiners
Mr Reiners is Policy Director at the Duke Financial Economics Center and a Lecturing Fellow in law at Duke University, New York.
Mr Reiners teaches FinTech Law and Policy, Cryptocurrency Law and Policy, and seminars relating to financial policy and regulatory practice.
His broad research agenda focuses on how new financial technologies fit within existing regulatory frameworks. His work has examined the risks associated with cryptocurrency derivatives, the rise of digital investment advice, and corporate governance failures within the financial industry.
Julie Cassidy
Professor Cassidy is a Professor of Law and Taxation in the Department of Commercial Law at the University of Auckland.
Her primary fields of research are taxation (especially anti-tax avoidance measures, capital gains tax and cryptocurrencies), company law (especially directors’ duties and corporate governance) and human rights (especially Indigenous rights and international law).
Professor Cassidy’s current research includes regulatory models for cryptocurrencies, including the taxation and securities treatment of such assets.
Jason Harris
Professor Harris is Professor of Corporate Law at the University of Sydney.
His research is frequently cited in Supreme Court and Federal Court decisions and has been cited in the High Court of Australia as well as in Commonwealth parliamentary committees and by academic works in Australia and internationally.
Professor Harris is an active participant in law reform initiatives through his policy work with the Governance Institute of Australia, the Australian Institute of Company Directors and the Corporations and Insolvency Committees of the Law Council of Australia.
He has served on a number of editorial boards including for the Australian Journal of Corporate Law, the Australian Law Journal and the Journal of Banking and Finance Law and Practice.
Ross Buckley
Professor Buckley is KPMG Law and King & Wood Mallesons Professor of Disruptive Innovation, University of New South Wales.
His research focuses on FinTech, RegTech, central bank digital currencies and the Consumer Data Right and, more broadly, the full range of issues that the rise of data and its algorithmic analysis pose for society.
His research is currently widely downloaded from the Social Science Research Network (SSRN) along with collaborators Douglas Arner of HKU and Dirk Zetzsche of the University of Luxembourg.
His Australian Research Council Laureate Fellowship, 2020 - 2025, is a $2.6 million project that explores how Australia might best regulate the rise of data and its analysis so as to seize the related benefits while managing the many risks.
Host
Dr Michael Duffy, Department of Business Law and Taxation, Monash Business School
Event Details
- Date:
- 26 October 2022 at 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm
- Venue:
- Online - Zoom
- Categories:
- Business Law and Taxation; Digital Economy Research Network; General
Description
Blockchain technology is here to stay and causing a stir, particularly in one of its best-known applications, cryptocurrency.
But how should governments deal with all the emerging phenomena of blockchain? In particular, how should this financial technology, plus other manifestations such as the Decentralised Autonomous Organisation (DAO) be regulated nationally and across borders?
Our four keynote speakers, all global academic blockchain experts, will probe these and other questions.
Keynote speakers
Lee Reiners
Mr Reiners is Policy Director at the Duke Financial Economics Center and a Lecturing Fellow in law at Duke University, New York.
Mr Reiners teaches FinTech Law and Policy, Cryptocurrency Law and Policy, and seminars relating to financial policy and regulatory practice.
His broad research agenda focuses on how new financial technologies fit within existing regulatory frameworks. His work has examined the risks associated with cryptocurrency derivatives, the rise of digital investment advice, and corporate governance failures within the financial industry.
Julie Cassidy
Professor Cassidy is a Professor of Law and Taxation in the Department of Commercial Law at the University of Auckland.
Her primary fields of research are taxation (especially anti-tax avoidance measures, capital gains tax and cryptocurrencies), company law (especially directors’ duties and corporate governance) and human rights (especially Indigenous rights and international law).
Professor Cassidy’s current research includes regulatory models for cryptocurrencies, including the taxation and securities treatment of such assets.
Jason Harris
Professor Harris is Professor of Corporate Law at the University of Sydney.
His research is frequently cited in Supreme Court and Federal Court decisions and has been cited in the High Court of Australia as well as in Commonwealth parliamentary committees and by academic works in Australia and internationally.
Professor Harris is an active participant in law reform initiatives through his policy work with the Governance Institute of Australia, the Australian Institute of Company Directors and the Corporations and Insolvency Committees of the Law Council of Australia.
He has served on a number of editorial boards including for the Australian Journal of Corporate Law, the Australian Law Journal and the Journal of Banking and Finance Law and Practice.
Ross Buckley
Professor Buckley is KPMG Law and King & Wood Mallesons Professor of Disruptive Innovation, University of New South Wales.
His research focuses on FinTech, RegTech, central bank digital currencies and the Consumer Data Right and, more broadly, the full range of issues that the rise of data and its algorithmic analysis pose for society.
His research is currently widely downloaded from the Social Science Research Network (SSRN) along with collaborators Douglas Arner of HKU and Dirk Zetzsche of the University of Luxembourg.
His Australian Research Council Laureate Fellowship, 2020 - 2025, is a $2.6 million project that explores how Australia might best regulate the rise of data and its analysis so as to seize the related benefits while managing the many risks.