LA Time Publishes Op-Ed by PIJIP Senior Policy Fellow Charles Duan

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LA Time Publishes Op-Ed by PIJIP Senior Policy Fellow Charles Duan

New Book Chapter by Andrés Izquierdo: "Artificial Intelligence and Text and Data Mining: Future Rules for Libraries?"

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New Book Chapter by Andrés Izquierdo: "Artificial Intelligence and Text and Data Mining: Future Rules for Libraries?"

Professor Comizio Featured on a Panel on Blockchain Arbitration and the Resolution of Cryptocurrency Disputes at Paris Arbitration Week

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Professor Comizio Featured on a Panel on Blockchain Arbitration and the Resolution of Cryptocurrency Disputes at Paris Arbitration Week

On April 1, 2022, Brown Rudnick LLP, sponsored a panel at Paris Arbitration Week on “Blockchain Arbitration and the Resolution of Cryptocurrency Disputes.” Featured among the key speakers was Professor Gerard Comizio, Associate Director of the American University Business Law Program, who spoke on the different Legal, Regulatory & Law Enforcement Concerns regarding virtual currency and the various government legal/regulatory responses.
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Professor Comizio Featured on a Panel on Blockchain Arbitration and the Resolution of Cryptocurrency Disputes at Paris Arbitration Week

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ICLS interviews Professor Comizio on his new book, Virtual Currency Law: the Emerging Legal and Regulatory Framework

On March 17, 2022, Dr. Björn Arp, a Fellow and Adjunct Professor at the American University Washington College of Law Center on International Commercial Arbitration, interviewed Professor Gerard Comizio, Associate Director of the Business Law Program (BLP), about his new book, Virtual Currency Law: the Emerging Legal and Regulatory Framework. The conversation was hosted Program for International & Comparative Law Studies (ICLS) and the Blockchain and Cryptocurrency Law Society (BCLS).
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Professor Allen Discusses Her New Book, "Driverless Finance: Fintech's Impact on Financial Stability"

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Professor Allen Discusses Her New Book, “Driverless Finance: Fintech’s Impact on Financial Stability”

As noted in her book, Professor Allen remarked that the 2008 financial crisis was a defining economic crisis that presented similar challenges to the current threats posed by fintech. She observed that while governments around the globe reacted immediately and overwhelmingly to the 2008 crisis, they may not be able to do the same in the case of fintech-related threats.
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Statement of PIJIP Director Sean Flynn: South African Constitutional Court Reads Disability Exceptions Into Copyright

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Statement of PIJIP Director Sean Flynn: South African Constitutional Court Reads Disability Exceptions Into Copyright

The Constitutional Court of South Africa has issued an order in a case brought by Blind South Africa against the Parliament. The order finds provisions of the Copyright Act to be unconstitutional due to "infringement of the rights of persons with persons with visual and print disabilities, as set out in sections 9(3), 10, 16(1)(b), 29(1) and 30

of the Constitution."

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Prof. Sean Flynn and Michael Palmedo Present Research on Copyright Exceptions at SERCI and EPIP 

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Prof. Sean Flynn and Michael Palmedo Present Research on Copyright Exceptions at SERCI and EPIP 

Tracie Siddiqui Joins WCL's Glushko-Samuelson Intellectual Property Law Clinic Law Clinic as Practitioner-In-Residence

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Tracie Siddiqui Joins WCL's Glushko-Samuelson Intellectual Property Law Clinic Law Clinic as Practitioner-In-Residence

Professor Sean Flynn Appointed to Positions at the Universities of Amsterdam and Cape Town

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Professor Sean Flynn Appointed to Positions at the Universities of Amsterdam and Cape Town

Professor Comizio Speaks at ICPS Conference on the Challenges to Virtual Currency Regulation and Crypto's Relationship to the Russian Invasion of Ukraine

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Professor Comizio Speaks at ICPS Conference on the Challenges to Virtual Currency Regulation and Crypto’s Relationship to the Russian Invasion of Ukraine

On March 7, 2022, the International Centre for Parliamentary Studies, a leading international research institution promoting effective policy making and good governance,
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