Conferences and Events

The Digital Asset Law Project regularly hosts a series of webinars and conferences addressing cutting edge issues, from the emerging regulatory framework for cryptocurrencies, market innovation in financial technologies, and emerging laws and policies governing digital assets. To kick off the 2022-2023 academic year, the Business Law Program and AUWCL Digital Asset Law Project hosted the inaugural Virtual Currency Law, Regulation, and Policy conference. Speakers included a current CFTC Commissioner, as well as a former General Counsel for the agency; the CEO of Bitfury Group (and former Acting Comptroller of the Currency); and leaders from the American Bankers Association and crypto industry. We also featured some of our many prominent alumni in the digital asset law field, such as Lee A. Schneider (WCL '91), General Counsel for AVA Labs, and Andrew Siegel (WCL '94), General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer of Galaxy LP; as well as partners and group heads from high-profile law firms. You can view the full conference here.

In Spring 2023 we will be hosting a series of webinars on Reckoning with the Crypto Market Implosion. On February [23] we will host an interview with Chris Giancarlo, the former Chair of the Commodities Trading to discuss current and potential regulation of crypto trading exchanges. On March [TBA] we will feature Josh Sussberg, partner at Kirkland & Ellis and preeminent bankruptcy lawyer in representing many of the recent wave of crypto exchange bankruptcies occurring over the past year during what has been deemed “crypto winter.”