Cryptocurrency and Society
The Runnymede Society, the Schulich Law & Tech Society, and the Schulich Tax and Financial Law Association invite you to a discussion between Xavier Foccroulle Ménard, a banking and finance expert lawyer with Stikeman Elliott LLP, and Doug Harris, general counsel, director of Policy and Market Regulation, and secretary to the Nova Scotia Securities Commission.
This event, moderated by Brendan Peters, partner at Delex LLP, will introduce students to some of the legal issues involved with cryptocurrency and decentralized finance in practice.
The talk will explore benefits, limitations, and concerns of regulating these emerging areas, as well as discuss the positive applications of emerging financial technologies and innovations, and the extent (if any) to which the public needs to be protected from novel financial innovations.
Students will learn how FinTech works in practice and how the law can be leveraged and interact with financial innovation and technologies, and the role that government can play in advancing — or hindering — innovation in finance.
These two experts in their field come from radically different backgrounds, in government and academia, and private industry. A lively and intellectually rigorous exchange of views is expected.
Categories
Faculty Interest, Student Interest, Staff Interest, Law & Technology
Time
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Location
Room W305, Weldon Law Building
6061 University Ave.
Cost
No cost
Additional Information
Please register online.
Food will be provided.
