SemesterFall Semester, 2017
DepartmentMA Program of Law, First Year PhD Program of Law, First Year MA Program of Law, Second Year PhD Program of Law, Second Year
Course NameSeminar on FinTech and the Law (I)
Instructor
Credit2.0
Course TypeElective
Prerequisite
Course Objective
Course Description
Course Schedule
Teaching Methods
Teaching Assistant
Requirement/Grading

Class Participation (50%), Sandbox Simulation Exercise (20%), Reflection Paper (30%)




  1. Students' class participation will be graded based on their attendance and performance in class discussion. 

  2. After week 3, students will be teamed up (2 for each team) to take a turn in leading the class discussion, based on the assigned reading.

  3. Students will also be teamed up to conduct a regulatory sandbox simulation at the end of the semester, and to write a reflection paper (maximun 1,000 words) on the exercise.



 



 


Textbook & Reference

  1. Kevin C. Taylor, FinTech Law: A Guide to Technology Law in the Financial Services Industry (Bloomeberg BNA, 2014) (Taylor, 2014)

  2. Louise Malady, Ross Buckley and Cheng-Yun Tsang, Regulatory Handbook: The Enabling Regulation of Digital Financial Services (December 2015). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2715350 (Malady et al, 2015)

  3. John Armour, Dan Awrey, Paul Davies et al, Principles of Financial Regulation (Oxford University Press 2016) (Armour et al, 2016)


Urls about Course
Attachment

FinTech and the Law _ Reading List 20170926.pdf