This lecture is part of the Lecture Series on Central Banking Law.

The Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance (FDEF) is happy to invite you to this lecture of the Lecture Series on Central Banking Law.

Abstract

In his seventh – and last for the current academic year – lecture as part of the Central Banking Law series, Professor Christos Gortsos looks at the legal aspects of the digital euro.

After discussing the initiatives undertaken so far by the ECB on the introduction of a digital euro, Professor Gortsos will develop on the European Commission’s legislative proposal on the digital euro’s establishment, with emphasis on the subject matter of the proposed Regulation, the proposed legal tender status of the digital euro and its distribution within and outside the euro area, as well as the limits to its use as a store of value and as a means of payment.

About the speaker

Christos Gortsos is Professor of Public Economic Law at the Law School of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. Other positions include: Visiting Professor at the Europa Institut of the University of Zürich and the Europa Institut of the University of Saarland; President of the Academic Board of the European Banking Institute (EBI); Member of the Board of Appeal of the European Supervisory Authorities (ESAs); Member of the European Parliament’s and of the European Court of Auditors’ expert groups on banking resolution; and member and academic coordinator of the Committee on International Monetary Law of the International Law Association (MOCOMILA). In 2017, he was Fernand Braudel Senior Fellow at the Law Department of the European University Institute and in 2018 Academic Visitor at St Antony’s College (Oxford University). His main fields of teaching, writing and research are international, EU and public financial law, central banking law, financial regulation and institutional economics.