Cryptocurrencies in Public and Private Law

Description

This book examines how cryptocurrencies based on blockchain technologies fit into existing general law categories of public and private law. The book takes the common law systems of the United Kingdom as the centre of its study but extends beyond the UK to show how cryptocurrencies would be accommodated in some Western European and East Asian legal systems outside the common law tradition. By investigating traditional conceptions of money in public law and private law the work examines the difficulties of fitting cryptocurrencies within those approaches and models. Fundamental questions regarding issues of ownership, transfer, conflict of laws, and taxation are addressed with a view to equipping the reader with the tools to answer common transactional questions about cryptocurrencies. The international contributor team uses the common law systems of the United Kingdom as a basis for the analysis, but also looks comparatively to other systems across the wider common law and civil law world to provide detailed examination of the legal problems encountered. Foreword • Richard Aikens Acknowledgements Contents Table of Cases Table of Legislation Notes on Contributors 1. Cryptocurrencies: The Underlying Technology • Sarah Green 2. It's Virtually Money • David Fox 3. Cryptocurrencies in International and Public Law Conceptions of Money • Charles Proctor 4. Developing the Right Regulatory Regime for Cryptocurrencies and other Value Data • Corrine Zellweger-Gutknecht 5. Cryptocurrencies and the Conflict of Laws • Andew Dickinson 6. Cryptocurrencies in the Common Law of Property • Sarah Green 7. Cryptocurrencies as Property in Civilian and Mixed Legal Systems • Dann Carr 8. The Characterisation of Cryptocurrencies in East Asia • Kelvin Low and Wu Ying-Chieh 9. Bitcoin and Banking: Are there Lessons to Learn? • Chris Hare 10. Taxation of Cryptocurrencies • Anne Fairpo 11. Non-State Community Virtual Currencies • Benjamin Geva and Dorit Geva Index