About Digital Assets Project

This project, which is organised by the Commercial Law Centre, Harris Manchester College, Oxford University, is run by Professor Louise Gullifer and Professor Jennifer Payne, will consider legal issues arising from the holding of assets using distributed ledger and blockchain technology.

Developments in distributed ledger and blockchain technology have led to the emergence of innovative new asset types, such as crypto-currencies, crypto-securities and other tradable crypto-assets, some of which represent assets in the real world, such as gold. The value of these assets, at the moment, is enormous, and their existence raises many important legal questions, which need to be considered both on a national and international basis.

This project brings together an international group of legal experts to consider some of the major legal issues arising from the move towards digital assets. It has two main aims: first, to facilitate and enrich the work that is being done individually by members of the group, and second, to consider specific issues collectively and produce specific outputs.

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Winter Updating session, 08^th January 2026

Chatham House Rule:

Please note that this is an academic conference and, as such, the discussions following the presentations will be conducted under the Chatham House Rule, namely that ‘participants are free to use the information received, but neither the identity nor the affiliation of the speaker(s), nor that of any other participant, may be revealed.’ It is hoped that this will mean that everyone feels free to air views which are not necessarily fully developed, and ideas in various stages of formulation can be discussed, as well as those which have been considered more fully.

AGENDA

All times are BST (GMT+1) (UK local time)

12.30PM

Welcome and Introduction
‍Louise Gullifer (University of Cambridge) and Jennifer Payne (University of Oxford)

12.35PM

New instruments of the European Law Institute regarding digital assets

Teresa Rodríguez de las Heras (Universidad Carlos III)

12.50PM

UK draft regulatory regime for crypto assets

Ferdisha Snagg (Cleary Gottlieb)

1.05PM

Digital assets disputes update

Thomas Clark and Laura Feldman (Freshﬁelds)

1.20PM

Public attitudes towards CBDCs: insights from a survey experiment

Ruth Plato-Shinar (Netanya Academic College)

1.35PM

HCCH project on digital tokens

Charles Mooney (UPenn Carey; New Hampshire Commission on Uniform State Laws)

1.50PM

Update on regulatory developments on digital assets in the US

Wee Ming Choon (Ava Labs)

2.05PM

General discussion and conclusion.

Articles by Digital Asset Project Members

2019

Global Cryptoassets Regulatory Landscape Study (2019 Cambridge Center for Alternative Finance), A Blandin, S Cloots, H Hussain, M Rauchs, R Saleuddin, J Allen, B Zhang and K Cloud

‍Property in Digital Coins (2019 European Property Law Journal, 8(1), pp. 64-101), J Allen

Negotiability in digital environments (Butterworths journal of international banking and financial law, July/August 2019 pp. 459 - 463), J Allen

Distributed ledger technology and digital assets - policy and regulatory challenges in Asia, Douglas W. Arner, Ross P. Buckley, Anton Didenko, Cyn-Young Park, Emilija Pashoska, Dirk A. Zetzsche And Bo Zhao

Regulatory Technology - Eight Policy Recommendations (LSE Law - Policy Briefing Paper No. 37, July 22, 2019), E Micheler and J Jiang

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About Commercial Law Centre

The aim of the Centre is to provide an environment for high quality research in all aspects of national, international, transnational, and comparative law, relating to commerce and finance, with scope for particular attention to be paid to emerging markets. The Centre supports interdisciplinary research in these fields, and seeks to provide an opportunity for interaction between academics, practitioners, and policy makers from around the world. The Centre aims to nurture and encourage the researchers of the future in this important area of legal scholarship.

Dr Kristin van Zwieten is the director of the Centre.

The Commercial Law Centre welcomes visiting researchers, and has programmes for visiting academics and junior academics. Further information about the visiting researcher programmes may be found here.

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About Fusang

Fusang Exchange is a global digital stock exchange built to enhance rather than replace traditional finance. Operating with full regulatory oversight, we provide institutional-grade trading, custody and settlement infrastructure for securities, alternative investments, and private assets.

As an institutional-only network of member financial institutions, our blockchain trading and settlement environment uniquely solves for AML/KYC and CRS reporting requirements, which gives network members comfort in knowing that all trades are executed with other licensed financial institutions, with equivalent compliance requirements.

We unlock global liquidity for primary issuances and secondary trading.

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