Regulating Blockchain Techno-Social and Legal Challenges

by Hacker, Philipp; Lianos, Ioannis; Dimitropoulos, Georgios; Eich, Stefan

• ISBN13: 9780198842187
• ISBN10: 019884218X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2019-10-29
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

Regulating Blockchain: Techno-Social and Legal Challenges - An Introduction, Philipp Hacker, Ioannis Lianos, Georgios Dimitropoulos and Stefan Eich
Part I: Technological and Business Challenges of Blockchain Technology
1. The Blockchain Paradox, Paolo Tasca and Riccardo Piselli
2. Blockchains, Private Ordering and The Future of Governance, Aaron Wright and Jonathan Rohr
3. In Code(rs) We Trust: Software Developers as Fiduciaries in Public Blockchains, Angela Walch
Part II: Blockchain and the Future of Money
4. Old Utopias, New Tax Havens: The Politics of Bitcoin in Historical Perspective, Stefan Eich
5. Monetary Policy in the Digital Age, Claus D. Zimmermann
6. Global Currencies and Domestic Regulation: Embedding through Enabling?, Georgios Dimitropoulos
7. Corporate Governance for Complex Cryptocurrencies? A Framework for Stability and Decision Making in Blockchain-Based Organizations, Philipp Hacker
Part III: Blockchain and the Future of Banking, Finance, Insurance and Securities Regulation
8. Banking in a Digital Fiat Currency Regime, Rohan Grey
9. Regulating the Shadow Payment System: Bitcoin, Mobile Money and Beyond, Jonathan Greenacre
10. Blockchain-Based Insurance, Michael Abramowicz
11. Blockchain, Securities Markets and Central Banking, Alexandros Seretakis
12. The Crypto-Security: Initial Coin Offerings and EU Securities Regulation, Philipp Hacker and Chris Thomale
13. Regulation of Blockchain Token Sales in the United States, Houman Shadab
Part IV: Beyond Finance: Blockchain as a legal and regulatory challenge
14. Blockchain and Payment Systems: A Tale about Re-Intermediation, Agnieszka Janczuk-Gorywoda
15. Conflicts of Laws and Codes: Defining the Boundaries of Digital Jurisdictions, Florian Moslein
16. The Judicialisation of Blockchain, Pietro Ortolani
17. Smart Contracts: Coding the Transaction, Decoding the Legal Debates, Roger Brownsword
Part V: Connecting the Dots: Competitive Advantage and Regulation in the Era of Blockchain
18. Blockchain Competition. Gaining Competitive Advantage in the Digital Economy: Competition Law Implications, Ioannis Lianos