Dear colleagues and friends,

 

Equity and Trusts in the Digital Economy

 

This is a quick reminder that registrations are open for the 2020 Journal of Equity conference, which will this year being hosted in Brisbane by the Herbert Smith Freehills and the Australian Centre of Private Law at the University of Queensland.

 

Full details and the registration portal can be found here: https://law.uq.edu.au/events/equity-trusts-digital-economy

Speakers on the day comprise:

 

Professor David Fox (Edinburgh University): ‘Purchase for Value in Equity and the “Re-alignment” of Transactions on a Crypto-asset Blockchain’

Professor Jeannie Marie Patterson (Melbourne), ‘Smart Contracts and Questions of Specific Performance’

Professor Kelvin Low (City University of Hong Kong): ‘Can Equity Tame the Blockchain?’

Dr Nicholas Tiverios and Dr Michael Crawford (UNSW):  ‘Intermediated Securities and the First Principles of Trusts: A Case of Orthodoxy’

 

With good wishes to you all for a happy and prosperous 2020,

 

Kit Barker.