Fri, Jul 06
|Marburg
Conference on the topic of ‘Digitalisation - Law - Finance’
The Institute for the Law of Digitalisation was founded in 2018. The founding directors of the Institute are Prof. Dr. Florian Möslein and Prof. Dr. Sebastian Omlor. At the same time, the re-opening of the institute will be celebrated.
Time & Location
Jul 06, 2018, 9:00 AM
Marburg, Pilgrimstein 16, 35037 Marburg, Deutschland
About the event
In July 2018, the inaugural conference of the Institute for the Law of Digitalisation took place in Marburg on the topic of 'Digitalisation - Law - Finance'. The focus of the event, which will be continued annually with a different main topic, was on FinTech and blockchain. Renowned speakers shed light on the digitalisation of banking law from different perspectives. In several discussion rounds, there was room for a fruitful exchange between case law, doctrine, advisory legal practice and the supervisory authority.
Prof. Dr. Jürgen Ellenberger, Vice President of the German Federal Court of Justice (BGH) and Chairman of the XI. civil senate, opened the lecture series with a judgement of the eleventh civil senate of the German Federal Court of Justice on online banking (case no. XI ZR 91/14 = MMR 2016, 382). Prof. Dr. Lars Hornuf, University of Bremen, Chair of Business Administration, in particular Financial Services and Financial Technology, then gave a comprehensive market overview of FinTech in Germany. Hornuf led two research projects on this topic at the Federal Ministry of Finance in 2016 and has published extensive studies on the subject.
The extent to which blockchain technology and its current manifestations (e.g. bitcoin, ICO) are relevant in Germany was then presented by Florian Glatz, President of the German Blockchain Association, in a plea in favour of blockchain. Prof. Dr. Gerald Spindler, University of Göttingen, then examined legal issues in the area of crowdfunding, in particular general contract law and conflict of laws issues. Dr. Alexis Darányi, Scalable Capital, then presented the digital investment market.
Prof. Dr. Christian Armbrüster, FU Berlin, then presented nine theses on the digital conclusion of insurance contracts, and finally Dr. Angela Loff, Policy Division of the Consumer Protection Department at the Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin), presented the financial supervisory perspective on ICOs.
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