Event:

Shipping and commercial lawyers may show a superficial patina of conservatism. Underneath the surface, however, they are as aware as anyone else of the disruptive potential of electronics in law, and as keen as any to take advantage of it. For these technologies to flourish, however, it is essential that the legal rules are kept electronically up-to-date: something lawyers’ organisations, the government and the Law Commission today take very seriously.

In 2018 the UK Jurisdiction Taskforce undertook to prepare a Legal Statement on the status of cryptoassets and smart contracts under English/Welsh law. Following the publication of the Task Force’s highly influential 2019 Legal Statement on Cryptoassets and Smart Contracts, the government asked the Law Commission to undertake a more general scoping study into the law on electronic contracting. This work is now well under way.

This webinar from the well-known International Institute of Shipping and Trade Law at Swansea Law School will provide a platform for two leading members of the Institute, Professors Soyer and Tettenborn, to share their views on the matter with Professor Sarah Green, who is leading the project as Law Commissioner for Commercial and Common Law.

The event will be chaired by Simon Rainey QC (Quadrant Chambers)- a Leading Silk in the areas of Shipping, Commodities, Commercial Litigation and Dispute Resolution, International Arbitration, Energy and Natural Resources, and Insurance and Reinsurance and Professional Negligence.

Speakers:

• Sarah Green, Law Commissioner

• Simon Rainey QC (Quadrant Chambers)

• Professor B Soyer (Director, IISTL)

• Professor A Tettenborn (IISTL)