Stephan Meyer
Junior Associate, LL.M.
Profile
Stephan Meyer* is a Research Associate within MME’s blockchain team. In addition to his work for MME he is a PhD candidate at the University of Zurich researching the private law classification of crypto tokens and a full-time core team member of a Swiss National Science Foundation research project focusing on the regulation of virtual currencies at ZHAW School of Management and Law, Winterthur.
Business activities
- Blockchain | DLT | FinTech
- Digital Economy
- IT and Intellectual Property
- Data Protection, Big Data, IT-Compliance
Education
- since 2016
- PhD Candidate SNSF | University of Zurich
- 2016
- LL.M. | International Business Law | Queen Mary University of London
- 2015
- MLaw | Major in Business Law | University of Zurich
- 2013
- Summer Program in Chinese Commercial Law | LSE & Peking University
- 2013
- BLaw | University of Zurich
*Stephan Meyer has not yet been admitted to the bar.
Languages
- German
- English
- French
Practical Experience
- since 2017
- Research Associate | MME
- since 2016
- PhD Candidate SNSF | ZHAW School of Management and Law, Winterthur
- since 2008
- Quartermaster, Captain | Swiss Armed Forces
- 2011-2016
- Legal Associate & Recovery Specialist for an insurance company
- 2014
- Summer intern in a business law firm
- 2014
- Volunteer at District Court of Zurich
- 2010-2011
- Claims Adjuster Property & Liability for an insurance company
Teaching Assignments
- CAS Big Data Analytics, Blockchain and Distributed Ledgers | ZHAW School of Engineering
- BSc in Business Law, Module "Data Protection and Governance" | Guest Lecturer Blockchain | ZHAW School of Management and Law
- Management Program NBW | Contract and Employment Law | NBW Netzwerk für betriebswirtschaftliche Weiterbildung
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From the magazine
Functional equivalence
Blockchain technology opens up new possibilities to implement established legal institutions such as ownership or legal transactions in a technically functionally equivalent manner. The authors propose to recognize a digital system as functionally equivalent to the existence of a legal institution or to a legally valid transactions which fulfils all substantive and/or formal requirements that Swiss law attaches to it. These requirements are subject to judicial review and can be specified in law. This creates immediate legal certainty and can focus on what is necessary from a regulative perspective.
Blockchain-Shares for Swiss SMEs
MME and Swisscom digitalize Swiss shares using the advantage of blockchain technology. This will provide non-listed companies with easy, economical access to the capital market. Daura AG, the newly founded joint venture, will launch its solution in 2018.
All magazine reportsPublications
Die Steuerliche Behandlung von Bitcoin und anderen Kryptowährungen Zürcher Steuerpraxis 2017