Responsable : Audra Bullard

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“Perhaps the most avid users of cryptocurrencies have been a group
that explicitly values their opaque nature: criminals,” writes the international policy director at Stanford University’s Cyber Policy Center. Yet, the effort to promote cryptocurrency and to avoid even minimal government regulation or oversight of it proceeds with intensity. What are cryptocurrencies? How do stable coins, meme coins and other crypto “products” differ? What is their purpose and how are they used in practice? And what impact might they have on the stability of U.S. and foreign national economies, as well as the corruption of our political system? Is there any prospect of meaningful regulation, what would it look like, and what are the obstacles to enacting and enforcing regulation? In the first hour of his talk, these are among the questions Federal District Judge Jed Rakoff will address based on his experience presiding over several criminal and civil cases arising out of fraudulent cryptocurrency transactions. In the second hour, Judge Rakoff will review a few of the Supreme Court’s most important 2025- 2026 decisions and discuss the impact of the cases involving the Trump administration’s assertions of executive power on the relationship between the Supreme Court and the lower federal courts.

Judge Jed S. Rakoff has served since March 1996 as a U.S. District Judge for the Southern District of New York. He frequently sits by designation on the 2nd and 9th Circuit Courts of Appeals. His most noteworthy decisions have been in the areas of securities law and criminal law. He is an Adjunct Professor at both Columbia Law School and NYU Law School, and also teaches at Berkeley Law School and the University of Virginia Law School. He has conducted over 300 jury trials, written over 180 published articles, 900 speeches, and 2000
judicial opinions, and has co-authored five books. He is a regular contributor to the New York Review of Books, and the author of “Why The Innocent Plead Guilty and the Guilty Go Free, and Other Paradoxes of Our Broken Legal System” (Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2021).

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