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Cross-Border Dimension of the UK's Electronic Trade Documents Act (ETDA) 2023 and the Question of the Law Applicable to Electronic Trade Documents

This blog article is based on a paper I presented at the Digital Assets Project (DAP) Annual Conference 2025 at the University of Oxford on 4 July 2025. I would like to thank the organisers, Professor Louise Gullifer, Professor Jennifer Payne and Javier Paz Valbuena, for the opportunity…

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Digital Assets Law Reform in England and Wales and Prospects for Scotland*

In recent years, digital assets, including cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, have grown in significance and there are a number of legal challenges involved in accommodating them within any system. The term “digital assets” is usually understood to be an umbrella term referring to secured digital representations of value which can…

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On the Legal Landscape for Genome Editing in Agriculture: An Interview with Daniele Manzella

Following his thought-provoking talk delivered at the University of Aberdeen on 4 February 2020, Daniele Manzella, an international development lawyer, currently serving the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations, provides personal insights into the intersections of law and genome editing in agriculture. Daniele has advised several developing countries…

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Use of Blockchain Technology in Cross-Border Legal Cooperation under the Conventions of the Hague Conference on Private International Law (HCCH)

This post is based on a research seminar held at the University of Aberdeen on 27 March 2019

Blockchain and other types of distributed ledger technology (DLT) have attracted significant interest and become a much-debated topic, particularly after it was realised that their potential goes far beyond underpinning cryptocurrencies. Their…

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Is the UK heading towards regulation of cryptoassets? Findings from the UK Cryptoassets Taskforce Final Report

There is no universally agreed definition of cryptoassets. Definitions vary from one jurisdiction to another and are revisited from time to time as the technology keeps evolving. A cryptoasset, as defined in the UK Cryptoassets Taskforce Report of October 2018, is “a cryptographically secured digital representation of value or contractual…

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Networks in transition: Changing to stay the same?

“If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change.”
― Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard

I had been very eagerly anticipating the 7th Conference on the Regulation of Infrastructures at the Florence School of Regulation (FSR #CRI18) for weeks. On the day of departure, that…

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BILETA 2018 Follow up

Albert Einstein once stated that 'imagination is more important than knowledge'. I would agree with this, but with the addendum that structured imagination is more relevant than an 'abandoned display' of imagination. Studies which are arranged in a definite pattern might contain the premise(s) from which a conclusion may logically…

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