Introduction
The second workshop of the University of Aberdeen’s research project ‘Digital Assets in Scots Private Law: Innovating for the Future’, funded by the Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE), was held on 29 May 2024 at the Law Society of Scotland in Edinburgh. The purpose of this workshop was Mapping…
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…
The University of Aberdeen, founded by Bishop Elphinstone in 1495, marked its 525th year on Monday, 10 February with a special celebration which highlighted the University’s key milestones from the past and unveiled future plans embodied in its strategic vision ‘Aberdeen 2040.’ Aberdeen 2040 is anchored on the…
This is the fifth in a blog post series being produced under the auspices of the Centre for Commercial Law in response to the coronavirus crisis. This blog post was first published on the NERC/UKRI ‘Constructing a Digital Environment’ Programme Blog and is re-posted here with their kind permission.
The exact…
This is the fourth in a blog post series being produced under the auspices of the Centre for Commercial Law in response to the coronavirus crisis.
International trade is one of the areas that has been severely disrupted by the global COVID-19 pandemic caused by a new type of coronavirus.…
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…
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…
