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Business Law Program: The Exploding Virtual Currency Industry and Emerging Law, Regulation and Policy Issues

As part of American University's Washington College of Law Annual Alumni Reunion Weekend events, on Friday September 24, 2021, please join AUWCL for a roundtable discussion with three WCL alums who are legal leaders in the exploding virtual currency and blockchain industry: David Brill (WCL ’96), Head Commercial Counsel, Voyager Digital and Chair of the Crypto Assets Working Group for the Wall Street Blockchain Alliance; Lee A. Schneider (WCL ‘91), General Counsel, AVA Labs, and Andrew Siegel (WCL ‘94), General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer, Galaxy LP.

As part of AUWCL’s series of webinars hosted by AUWCL’s Business Law Program designed to foster a deeper understanding of virtual currency and transformative financial technologies, these distinguished WCL alumni will share their insights on the emerging legal, regulatory and policy issues governing the new and growing world of virtual currency businesses and activities. This panel will be moderated by Professor V. Gerard Comizio, associate director of the Business Law Program.

Virtual Alumni Reunion Weekend: Evening Keynote: Dean Roger Fairfax

Virtual Alumni Reunion Weekend: AUWCL's Global Toxics Project Inaugural Event: The Implications of Our Love Affair with Plastics

 With social media shocked over sea turtles mistaking plastic bags for jellyfish and massive rotating concentrations of plastic waste in the Pacific Ocean, it may not be surprising that the global regulation of plastics has built momentum so quickly.  Join the inaugural event of WCL’s Global Toxics Project to discuss the future regulation of plastics, and implications for extended producer responsibility and the pursuit of global environmental justice. Participants will also be the first to learn about WCL’s new Global Toxics Project at the Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law. 

Virtual Alumni Reunion Weekend: From Cryptocurrency and NFTs to Ransom-&-Spy-ware to Free Speech under Section 230 and NY Times v. Sullivan

Join WCL alumni experts in these diverse yet interrelated areas of law as they shed light on the tremendous shifts underway in the media, privacy, and technology sectors and provide guidance as to where the trends are heading. 

Virtual Alumni Reunion Weekend: The Future of Business & Client Development in a Post-Covid World

Client relations and business development are difficult dynamics to manage in a perfect world, let alone one that has been drastically disrupted by a global pandemic. Come hear how various players—from partners responsible for new client development to in-house counsel who hire outside legal talent, to law firm business development specialists—kept in the game and reworked their approaches to business and client development in this changed economic landscape.