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Do Banks Deserve Scrutiny Under the EU’s Sustainability and Due Diligence Directive?

By Roee Sarel and Hadar Y. Jabotinsky September 19, 2025 by Roee Sarel

The Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD) represents one of the European Union’s most ambitious attempts to hold businesses accountable for their global impact. The directive establishes a corporate due diligence duty with core elements focused on identifying and addressing …

The Promise and Perils of Using AI at Law Reviews

By Hadar Y. Jabotinsky and Roee Sarel August 30, 2024 by Roee Sarel

The legal world is no stranger to technological advancements, but the surge in artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities has sparked a movement that is reaching even law reviews. Every submission cycle, Scholastica – the largest platform for law-review submissions – releases …

Should Smart Contracts Be Mandated?

By Roee Sarel and Bahadir Köksal February 23, 2024 by Roee Sarel

Smart contracts are typically used to facilitate the transfer of cryptocurrencies but can actually be used to conclude all sorts of transactions. Technically speaking, a smart contract is just an automated algorithm. It triggers a pre-defined action once certain preconditions …

What Should We Do About ChatGPT?

By Roee Sarel March 24, 2023 by Roee Sarel

Almost everyone seems to be talking about ChatGPT. This new AI-enabled chatbot, which can swiftly produce answers that feel as if a human wrote them, promises to revolutionize how we generate text. Although ChatGPT emerged just a few months ago, …

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How to Move from Local to Global Regulation of Crypto-Assets

By Roee Sarel, Hadar Y. Jabotinsky and Israel Klein August 5, 2022 by Roee Sarel

On July 7, 2022, the U.S. Department of Treasury (USDT) published a fact-sheet on the regulation of digital assets(a.k.a. crypto-assets) in which it emphasized the need for global cooperation. However, this fact-sheet is only a drop in an ocean …

When Biden Met Crypto: Thoughts on the President’s Executive Order

By Hadar Y. Jabotinsky and Roee Sarel April 1, 2022 by Roee Sarel

On March 9, 2022, President Biden signed an executive order (“the Order”) requiring federal agencies to submit reports on how cryptocurrencies relate to various issues, including money laundering, investor protection, international cooperation, central bank digital currencies (“CBDC”), and systemic risk. …

How the Covid-19 Pandemic Affected the Cryptocurrency Market

By Hadar Y. Jabotinsky and Roee Sarel March 26, 2021 by Roee Sarel

In our recent paper, we conducted an empirical analysis to test how the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic affected the market for cryptocurrencies (“cryptomarket”). One year into the pandemic, this market seems to have boomed. For instance, when the pandemic …

Why Some Covid-19 Mitigation Strategies Fail

By Jan-Philip Elm and Roee Sarel February 19, 2021 by Roee Sarel

As the Covid-19 pandemic continues to disrupt the global economy, regulators are struggling to find cost-effective mitigation strategies. The goal of such strategies should be simple: Reduce the spread of the virus, while causing the least amount of damage to …

What Law and Economics Has to Say About Property Rights in Cryptocurrencies

By Roee Sarel April 2, 2020 by Roee Sarel

Technological advancements of recent years have given birth to a strange and interesting creature: cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, Ether, and Facebook’s upcoming Libra. Many of the advantages offered by these tokens stem from their underlying technology – a decentralized ledger, which …

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