The Blockchain Revolution in Crypto and Beyond

Banking

The Formula for Digital Asset Recovery

Johnny Lee

Forensic and legal specialists have adapted established frameworks to trace and recover digital assets, leading to meaningful results for organizations that are victims of fraud and theft involving digital assets.

How Blockchain in Healthcare May Revolutionize the Digital Health Data Marketplace by Putting the Patient in Control

Ashfin Islam

Blockchain technology has a chance to significantly shift how we as a society interact with our own healthcare data.

Privacy-Friendly Aspects of Blockchain in Digital Advertising

Michiel Van Roey

The online advertising (Ad Tech) market and its reliance on the extraction, exploitation, and sharing of billions of consumers’ personal data (unbeknownst to them) creates a complex web of privacy risks.

Bankruptcy

Crypto Winter: Cryptocurrency Bankruptcy Cases Reveal Investor Risks, Privacy-Transparency Tradeoffs, Fraud, and Cyber Threats

Lucy L. Thomson

The summer of 2022 marked the beginning of an extraordinary series of events in the cryptocurrency market, including high-profile cryptocurrency bankruptcy filings, that will have industrywide effects.

Science & Engineering

Cryptocurrency: A Need for Integrity

Hoyt L. Kesterson II

A brief history and explanation of blockchain technology and bitcoin and considerations going forward, including the impact of bitcoin mining on the electric grid and the need for regulation.

Artificial Intelligence & Robotics

Comparing the US, UK, and EU Regulatory Approaches to AI

Catherine Barrett

Discussion of who’s leading in artificial intelligence regulation in the face of abundant risks, including the 2023 EU AI Law and ABA Resolution 604 on AI Technologies.

Technology

Message from the Chair: As We Approach Our Section’s 50th Anniversary

Garth B. Jacobson

As we approach the SciTech Section’s 50th anniversary, we continue to see that lawyers must stay on top of technology for their own self-preservation.

Science & Engineering

Get the SciTech Edge: Membership & Diversity Committee News

Charlene C. Goldfield and Joanne Charles

The first step to creating fair outcomes from using AI tools has to be education working hand-in-hand with legislation.

Career

Future SciTech Leaders: Law Student Engagement Committee News

David Husband and Stacey Zumo

While there are tremendous potential applications of AI for lawyers, including increasing efficiency, it is important that new lawyers and law students are aware of the risks before employing the help of such technology in their research and writing.