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Blockchain and Public Law: Global Challenges in the Era of Decentralisation

Edited by Oreste Pollicino · Giovanni De Gregorio
Edward Elgar Publishing July 2021

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ISBN-13
9781839100789
Publisher
Edward Elgar Publishing
Publication
July 2021
Format
Hardback
Jurisdiction
U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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This important and topical book provides a comprehensive overview of the challenges raised by blockchain from the perspective of public law. It considers the ways in which traditional categories of public law such as sovereignty, citizenship and territory are shaped, as well as the impact of blockchain technology on fundamental rights and democratic values.

Articulated in two sections, the first analyses the opportunities and the challenges that blockchain and distributed ledger technologies raise in the field of public and constitutional law, while the second highlights challenges derived from the intersection between blockchain and other legal fields such as contract law, financial law and antitrust law. A wide variety of expert contributions offer further examinations of the constitutional challenges of blockchain technologies that provide regulatory options for governments and lawmakers.

Blockchain and Public Law will be a critical point of reference for scholars and students of legal theory, public policy and governmental law. It will also be beneficial to legal practitioners and lawmakers to further develop their knowledge of the field of blockchain at national and international levels.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction to Blockchain and Public Law
Oreste Pollicino and Giovanni De Gregorio
PART I: BLOCKCHAIN AND PUBLIC LAW
2. Blockchain utopia and its governance shortfalls
Uta Kohl
3. Blockchain and sovereignty
Riccardo de Caria
4. Blockchain and citizenship: uneasy bedfellows
Oscar J. Strein and Dimitry V. Kochenov
5. Blockchain and democracy: Challenges and opportunities of blockchain
and smart contracts for democracy in the distributed, algorithmic state
Jurgen Goossens
6. Blockchain and authoritarianism: The evolution of decentralized
autonomous organizations
Tom W. Bell
7. Blockchain and public administration
Yoan Hermstrüwer
8. Blockchain and freedom of expression
Giovanni De Gregorio
9. Blockchain, privacy, and data protection
Paul De Hert and Ashwinee Kumar
10. Blockchain for healthcare applications and use cases
Immaculate Motsi-Omoijiade and Alexander Kharlamov
PART II: BLOCKCHAIN AND PUBLIC LAW AT THE INTERSECTION
11. Blockchain and contract law: Smart contracts
Pietro Sirena and Francesco P. Patti
12. Blockchain and financial law: FinTech and crypto-assets
Filippo Annunziata
13. Blockchain and antitrust law: A roadmap
Maria Teresa Maggiolino and Laura Zoboli
Index
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