Blockchain has not been an ever-present subject in Communications Law. That said the subject has certainly come up on a reasonably regular basis in the context of the course over the years. Personally, the jury is mostly still out for me on whether blockchain is merely a proposed answer to questions few if any are asking. However the possibility remains that blockchain applications might bring some helpful privacy or other solutions. So it is that my participation as an Academic Partner in Blockchain@UBC (https://blockchain.ubc.ca) has been focussed on inquiry and rigor (I hope).
Attached below are the slides for the presentation I made on “Regulation & Blockchain” at the 3rd Annual Blockchain@UBC Summer Institute (https://blockchain.ubc.ca/education/blockchainubc-summer-institute) on June 3, 2019. Hopefully they might prove somewhat helpful or instructive to those interested in the area and its development.
Jon