POSTPONED - Blockchain Technology in International Trade and Shipping - Interdisciplinary Workshop

*** This event has been postponed to a later date ***

 

Provisional Programme
 

08:30 – 09:00 - Registration and coffee

09:00 – 10:45 - Session 1 – IT themes: technology-enabled international trade

• Trustworthy digital identities in transportation and supply chains – PD Dr. Sibylle Fröschle, Oldenburg University, Germany
• Hands on Hyperledger Fabric - Building a multi-host blockchain network for development purposes – M.Sc. Hauke Precht, Oldenburg University, Germany
• From Data to Smart Data – from Smart Contract to Intelligent contracting – Introduction into an new Digital System - Prof Andreas Furrer, Lucerne University, Switzerland
• Automation of multi-sensorial decision making in multimodal shipping transactions – clean or dirty bills of lading? – Prof Burkhard Schafer, The University of Edinburgh, UK

Coffee break

11:15 – 13:00 - Session 2 – Legal themes - blockchain

• General introduction into blockchain and law – David Saive, Oldenburg University, Germany
• Privacy by design in blockchain networks – Thomas Janicki LL.M., Oldenburg University, Germany
• Competition by Design, Compliance by Design or Antitrust by Design? – RA Sebastian Louven, Oldenburg University, Germany
• The perspective of UNCITRAL: The UNCITRAL Model Law on electronic transferable records and the current work on the digital economy – Luca Castellani, UNCITRAL Secretariat, Austria

Lunch

13:45 – 15:30 - Session 3 – Electronic bills of lading and other e-docs

• Governing the digital transformation of international trade: legal challenges ahead– Dr Miriam Goldby – Queen Mary University, London, UK
• E-documents in freight forwarding in light of the UNCITRAL Model Law on electronic transferable records – Dr Simone Lamont-Black, The University of Edinburgh, UK
• Electronic bills of lading under German law – David Saive, Oldenburg University, Germany
• The regulation of e-B/L in Spanish Maritime Law – Dra. Mayte Otero Cobos, Profesora Área de Derecho Mercantil, Universidad de Málaga, Spain

Coffee break

16:00 – 17:45 - Session 4 – Legal themes – banking and logistics

• ICC initiatives in the area of digitalisation in trade finance: an overview – Miriam Goldby, Queen Mary University, London, UK with input from David Meynell, ICC, UK
• Blockchain and trade finance – Prof Emilios Avgouleas, The University of Edinburgh, UK
• Digital logistic platforms: roles, rights and responsibilities – Prof Dr Wouter Verheyen, Antwerp University, Belgium
• Cryptoassets and private law – Prof David Fox, The University of Edinburgh, UK

17:45 – 18:00h - Close of Workshop

19:00 – 22:00h - Networking Dinner (Speakers and Chairs)

 

Guest Registration

A small number of guests can be accommodated against a contribution towards the workshop expenses. 

Anyone interested in attending as a guest, or for any other queries please contact Dr Simone Lamont-Black, at Edinburgh Law School at simone.lamont-black@ed.ac.uk

 

This event is sponsored by the Edinburgh Futures Institute, the Edinburgh SCRIPT Centre, the Edinburgh Centre of Commercial Law and Edinburgh Law School, as well as by the research project HAPTIK at the University of Oldenburg, which is supported by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy.