Professor Avgouleas delivers 16th AIIFL Distinguished Public Lecture in Hong Kong
Tue 4 June 2019
On 21st May 2019, Professor Emilios Avgouleas, Chair of International Banking Law and Finance at the Edinburgh Law School, gave the 16th Asian Institute of International Financial Law (AIIFL) Distinguished Public Lecture at the University of Hong Kong (HKU).
Professor Avgouleas, who is currently a visiting research professor at HKU, spoke on the evolution of legal and economic ideas of money in modern times and the challenge posed by cryptocurrencies in his lecture, titled ‘Law’s Great Embarrassment: The Idea of Money Before and After the 4th Industrial Revolution’.
AIIFL serves as an umbrella for the research activities of its Fellows from the Faculty of Law and HKU as well as its Honorary and Visiting Fellows. Since its establishment, AIIFL has developed into the leading academic research centre of its kind in the Asia-Pacific.
Professor Emilios Avgouleas holds the International Banking Law and Finance Chair at the University of Edinburgh and is a Member of the Stakeholder Group of the European Banking Authority (EBA) elected in the so-called ‘top-ranking’ academics section. Emilios has held a number of visiting posts in leading institutions in Europe and the USA and he is currently honoured to be a Visiting Research Professor at HKU Faculty of Law and a Visiting Professor at the Department of European Political Economy, LUISS, Rome.