We are pleased to invite you to join the Dalhousie Runnymede Society, the Schulich Law & Technology Society, and the Schulich Tax and Financial Law Association for an exciting discussion between Xavier Foccroulle Ménard, a banking and finance expert lawyer with Stikeman Elliott LLP and Doug Harris, General Counsel, Director of Policy and Market Regulation and Secretary to the Nova Scotia Securities Commission. The discussion will be moderated by Brendan Peters, Partner at Delex LLP. This event will introduce law students to some of the legal issues involved with Cryptocurrency and Decentralized Finance in practice. We will talk about benefits, limitations, and concerns of regulating these emerging these areas, as well as discussing the positive applications of emerging financial technologies and innovations, and the extent (if any) to which the public needs to be protected from novel financial innovations.

These two experts in their field come from radically different backgrounds, in government and academia, and private industry, and a lively and intellectually rigorous exchange of views is guaranteed. Students will learn how FinTech works in practice and how the law can be leveraged and interact with financial innovation and technologies, and the role that government can play in advancing — or hindering — innovation in finance.