School of Law Lecturers Dr Alisdair MacPherson and Dr Burcu Yüksel Ripley, alongside Amy Held of the University of Vienna and Bar of England and Wales, acted as Special Rapporteurs for the UK for the International Academy of Comparative Law (IACL)’s General Report on ‘Cryptocurrencies: the impossible domestic law regime?’ (Asunción 2022 General Congress, Topic IX.C) and co-authored the UK Report on Cryptocurrencies with a focus on the law of England and Wales and the law of Scotland.
The original version of the report has been published on SSRN and is available at https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4543838. It covers issues relating to the definition of cryptocurrencies, the regulatory framework, supervision matters, private law (including property law, succession, trusts, attachment and seizure, insolvency, pledge and other security interests, loans and tort/delict, fraud and hacking), private international law considerations, tax measures, litigation in relation to cryptocurrencies and other relevant legal issues.
An adapted version of the report will be published in a book collection edited by Matthias Lehmann and Tetsuo Morishita (Intersentia forthcoming).