Universität Wien

030583 SE Crypto Assets in Private Law (2023S)

4.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 3 - Rechtswissenschaften
Continuous assessment of course work

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Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).

Details

max. 20 participants
Language: German

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

  • Tuesday 14.03. 13:00 - 14:30 Seminarraum SEM33 Schottenbastei 10-16, Juridicum, 3.OG (Kickoff Class)
  • Tuesday 09.05. 09:00 - 17:00 Seminarraum SEM33 Schottenbastei 10-16, Juridicum, 3.OG
  • Wednesday 10.05. 09:00 - 17:00 Seminarraum SEM33 Schottenbastei 10-16, Juridicum, 3.OG

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

This course is designed to give students the opportunity to deal in depth with questions of private law in the crypto-economy. The main focus of the seminar is the classification of coins and tokens in Austrian private law and international private law.

At the beginning of the course, students can choose a topic from a pool or alternatively propose a topic themselves. They then write a seminar paper of 15 to 20 pages (min. 50,000 characters incl. spaces and footnotes) on this topic. The main findings are to be presented in the course and then discussed in the plenum. The papers can be written in German or English.

Assessment and permitted materials

written seminar paper, oral presentation followed by a discussion

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

The assessment criteria are in particular the exhaustion of the topic, the conciseness of the presentation, the convincing focus, the level of argumentation, the independence of the line of thought, the independence of one's own statement as well as compliance with the formalities. In addition to the written work, the presentation and participation in the discussions of the other participants' papers can also be positively considered in the assessment.

Examination topics

Private international law; private law; comparative law

Reading list

I. General literature on scientific papers

• Büdenbender/Bachert/Humbert, Hinweise für das Verfassen von Seminararbeiten, JuS 2002, 24.
• Möllers, Juristische Arbeitstechnik und wissenschaftliches Arbeiten9 (2018).

II. Literature to introduce and deepen the topic

1. Introduction
• Antonopoulos, Mastering Bitcoin: Unlocking Digital Cryptocurrencies2 (2017);
• Auer et al., The Technology of Decentralized Finance (DeFi), BIS Working Papers No 1066 (2023);
• Narayanan et al., Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies: A Comprehensive Introduction (2016).

2. In-depth:
• Arndt, Bitcoin-Eigentum (2022);
• Anderl (Hrsg), Blockchain in der Rechtspraxis (2020);
• Filippi/Wright, Blockchain and the Law: The Rule of Code (2018;
• Fleißner, Eigentum an unkörperlichen Sachen am Beispiel von Bitcoins, ÖJZ 2018, 437;
• Hanzl, Handbuch Blockchain und Smart Contracts (2020);
• Hepberger, Kryptowerte im österreichischen Sachenrecht (Dissertation JKU Linz 2021);
• Kirchmayr-Schliesselberger et al., Kryptowährungen (2019);
• Knoll/Vonkilch, Bitcoins und das Sachenrecht des ABGB, JBL 2019, 139;
• Kogler, Non Fungible Tokens und Sachenrecht, JBl 2021, 685;
• Kogler, Digitale Leistungen und Waren gegen Zahlung mit Bitcoin - Anwendbarkeit des VGG, ecolex (2022), 27;
• Lehmann et al., Staking Your Crypto: What are the Stakes? abrufbar unter <https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4339687> (zugegriffen am 21.2.2023);
• Lehmann, Who Owns Bitcoin? Private Law Facing the Blockchain, 21 Minn. J.L. Sci. & Tech. 93 (2019);
• Maume, Die Verordnung über Märkte für Kryptowerte (MiCAR), RDi 2022, 461 (Teil 1) und 497 (Teil 2);
• Maume/Maute/Fromberger (Hrsg), Rechtshandbuch Kryptowerte (2020);
• Möslein/Omlor (Hrsg), FinTech-Handbuch2 (2021);
• Omlor/Link (Hrsg), Handbuch Kryptowährungen und Token2 (2021);
• Omlor, Blockchain-Token im Privat-, Wertpapier- und Depotrecht, WM 2022, 2153;
• Piska/Völkel (Hrsg), Blockchain Rules (2019);
• Stabile/Prior/Hinkes, Digital Assets and Blockchain Technology (2020);
• Völkel, Vertrauen in die Blockchain und das Sachenrecht, ZFR 2020, 218.

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