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US Law: Crypto is Money, Property, a Commodity, and a Security, all at the Same Time

Although various authorities in the US have repeatedly claimed that they do not wish to over-regulate cryptoassets or to stifle innovation in the space, overlapping regulations produced by a multitude...

7 December 2018

Carol Goforth

How Technology Disrupts Private Law: An Exploratory Study of California and Switzerland as Innovative Jurisdictions

2018 is the first year in history when more than half of the world’s population is online. Since its dawn, the Internet has changed many aspects of daily...

4 December 2018

Catalina Goanta

Twenty years of ‘Law and Finance’ – Time to take law seriously

Twenty years ago, the first of a series of tremendously influential papers on 'Law and Finance' was published by Rafael La Porta and his colleagues. By putting legal institutions...

ICYMI―Anticompetitive Effects of Common Ownership?

The European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) featured a Focus Panel on ‘Common Ownership: Antitrust Meets Corporate Governance’ at their Annual Members’ Meeting in Berlin, in May 2018. The...

10 September 2018

OBLB Editors

Towards Effectiveness of the Rules on Corporate Governance for EU Insurance Firms

Good governance is essential to the long-term sustainability of any company. EU banking and insurance prudential standards require regulated institutions to have a rigorous governance framework, founded on the premise...

9 April 2018

Michele Siri

Lessons from More than a Decade-Long History of Sanction in France

Since its creation in 2003, the Enforcement Committee of the French Financial Market Authority (AMF) has sanctioned market players which violate the set of rules to which they are subject....

21 February 2018

Laure de Batz

Tech Business Law: Initial Coin Offerings ('ICOs') and The DAO Decision

On 25 July 2017 the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (‘US SEC’) issued a report of investigation in which it classified The Decentralized Autonomous Organization’s (‘The DAO’s’) Tokens as...

31 August 2017

E Joan

Peter Crane

Making Finance More Competitive

Many scholars have called for legal reform to end taxpayer-funded bailouts and crack down on anticompetitive practices by financial institutions. Failure to do so, in an era of fintech innovation,...

16 August 2017

Rory Van Loo

The Rise of Regulatory Affairs in Innovative Startups

What explains the growing number of collisions and collaborations between law and entrepreneurs? How are startups responding? What are some of the implications of these developments? I explore these questions...

28 July 2017

Elizabeth Pollman

Adjudicating by Algorithm, Regulating by Robot

Sophisticated computational techniques, known as machine-learning algorithms, increasingly underpin advances in business practices, from investment banking to product marketing and self-driving cars. Machine learning—the foundation of artificial intelligence—portends vast changes...

21 April 2017

Cary Coglianese

David Lehr

US Law: Crypto is Money, Property, a Commodity, and a Security, all at the Same Time

How Technology Disrupts Private Law: An Exploratory Study of California and Switzerland as Innovative Jurisdictions

Twenty years of ‘Law and Finance’ – Time to take law seriously

ICYMI―Anticompetitive Effects of Common Ownership?

Towards Effectiveness of the Rules on Corporate Governance for EU Insurance Firms

Lessons from More than a Decade-Long History of Sanction in France

Tech Business Law: Initial Coin Offerings ('ICOs') and The DAO Decision

Making Finance More Competitive

The Rise of Regulatory Affairs in Innovative Startups

Adjudicating by Algorithm, Regulating by Robot

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