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Dr Aaron Lane
Dr Aaron Lane is a Senior Lecturer in Law with the RMIT Blockchain Innovation Hub.
Dr Aaron Lane is an Australian Lawyer and an expert in the relationship between regulation and innovation. His current research focuses on the legal and economic implications on blockchain technology.
Dr Lane was admitted to practice in the Supreme Court of Victoria and began his legal career in private practice acting and appearing for clients in administrative, commercial and criminal matters. As a regulatory analyst, he has worked with leading Australian think tanks on economic and financial regulation. He has appeared to give expert evidence before State and Federal parliamentary inquiries and has contributed to an Amicus Brief filed in the Supreme Court of the United States. More recently, Aaron has advised Australian and foreign governments on the regulation of blockchain and cryptocurrency.
Areas of Research
- Blockchain
- Corporate Governance
- Economics of Regulation
- Public Sector Innovation
- Public Choice / Political Economy
- Law and Technology
- Bachelor of Commerce
- Bachelor of Laws (Honours)
- Graduate Diploma of Legal Practice
- Graduate Diploma of Theology
- Master of Arts
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Admitted as an Australian Lawyer in the Supreme Court of Victoria
- Registered as a Solicitor in the High Court of Australia
- Duxton Hill, Special Counsel, 2020-Current
- Visiting Scholar, Mercatus Centre at George Mason University, 2022
- Maddocks, Lawyer, 2012-2013
- Member of the Blockchain Expert Group at Business at OECD
- Member of the Digital Commerce Committee of the Law Council of Australia
- Lane, A.,Adam, L. (2023). Crime and Cryptocurrency in Australian Courts In: Monash University Law Review, 48, 1 - 44
- Allen, D.,Berg, C.,Lane, A. (2023). Why airdrop cryptocurrency tokens? In: Journal of Business Research, 163, 1 - 11
- Allen, D.,Berg, C.,Lane, A.,MacDonald, T.,Potts, J. (2023). In Press - The Exchange Theory of Web3 Governance In: Kyklos, , 1 - 17
- Douglas, K.,Goodman, R.,Kallies, A.,Lane, A. (2022). Observations from Planners and Lawyers Regarding ADR: The Opportunity of Technology to Support Understanding in Planning Conflict In: Australasian Dispute Resolution Journal, 32, 115 - 123
- Allen, D.,Berg, C.,Lane, A.,McLaughlin, P. (2021). The political economy of Australian regulatory reform In: Australian Journal of Public Administration, 80, 114 - 137
- Lane, A.,Platz, C. (2021). The Other Side of the Ledger: Blockchain Makes a New Entry in the Historical Record of Copyright Law and Technology In: European Intellectual Property Review, 43, 83 - 97
- Allen, D.,Lane, A. (2020). Cryptodemocratic Governance In Special Economic Zones In: Journal of Special Jurisdictions, 1, 83 - 111
- Allen, D.,Berg, C.,Davidson, S.,Lane, A.,Potts, J. (2020). Unfreeze: How to Create a High Growth Economy After the Pandemic, American Institute for Economic Research, United States
- Poblet Balcell, M.,Allen, D.,Konashevych, O.,Lane, A.,Diaz, A. (2020). From Athens to the Blockchain: Oracles for Digital Democracy In: Frontiers in Blockchain, 3, 1 - 11
- Poblet Balcell, M.,Lane, A.,Nabben, K. (2020). Measures to Fight the COVID-19 Pandemic: Australia In: Revista Catalana de Dret Públic, SI, 276 - 288
- Improving Water Markets and Trading through New Digital Technologies. Funded by: CRC for Developing Northern Australia from (2020 to 2020)