Electronic Cash

[Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com>]

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Date: Thu, 27 Feb 97 18:16:03 EST
From: weffross@counsel.com (Walter A Effross -- American Univ. - Washington )
To: rah@shipwright.com
Subject: Electronic Cash



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     Robert, I thought that you and the members of your group
would be interested in this Symposium.  Please feel free to send
the information around to whatever listservs you think
appropriate.
					Thanks!
						Walter
                                        THE ELECTRONIC FUTURE OF
CASH - A SYMPOSIUM

     The Washington College of  Law  and the American University
Law Review are proud to announce a full-day Symposium on the
Electronic Future of Cash, to be held at the law school in
Washington, DC on Friday, April 18, 1997 in connection with the
publication of a special Symposium issue of the Law Review on this
topic.

      The first panel, "The Technology of Electronic Cash," will
include: Newsweek columnist Steven Levy; Cybercash General Counsel
Russ Stevenson; Peter Wayner, author of Digital Cash: Commerce on
the Internet; Gary Lorenz, General Manager of the Diebold Campus
Systems Division; and a representative (invited) of the National
Security Agency.  This panel will examine the operation of stored
value cards and encryption techniques and will include a
demonstration of a "cyberpayment" made online with digital cash.

     The second panel, "Commentary on the Regulation of Electronic
Cash," brings together the authors of articles in the Symposium
issue (provided, with additional materials, to all registrants) to
review and recommend regulatory efforts from the viewpoints of
academics, practitioners, bankers, and consumer advocates.
Panelists include: Professor Mark Budnitz, Georgia State
University College of Law; Richard Field, Chair of the Electronic
Commerce Payment Committee of the American Bar Association;
Professor Egon Guttman, Washington College of Law; Professor David
Oedel, Mercer University Law School; Simon Lelieveldt, Senior
Policy Advisor, Payment Systems Policy Department, De
Nederlandsche Bank (the Dutch Central Bank); and Brian Smith of
Mayer, Brown & Platt.

     Dr. David Chaum, the founder and president of DigiCash, has
been invited to give a luncheon address.

     The third panel, "The Perspectives of the Regulators,"
includes: Thomas Baxter, Jr., General Counsel of the Federal
Reserve Bank of New York; William Kroener, General Counsel of the
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation; Michael Billsma, Acting
Director, Community and Consumer Law, Office of the Comptroller of
the Currency; Stephen Kroll, Legal Counsel, Financial Crimes
Enforcement Network (FinCEN), United States Treasury Department;
Scott Charney, Chief, Computer Crime and Intellectual Property
Section, Criminal Justice Division, Department of Justice; John
Lopez, Counsel, Subcommittee on Domestic and International
Monetary Policy; Paul Glenn, Special Counsel, Office of Thrift
Supervision; and Lucy Morris, Assistant Director for Credit
Practices, Federal Trade Commission.

     A reception will follow.

     Registration fees (including lunch) are: $150 for
preregistrants; $175 for registration at the door; $100 for
Washington College of Law alumni; $80 for judges, law clerks, and
government employees; and $40 for full-time academics.     Please
register early, as space may be limited.

      For a registration form and more information, please contact
Professor Walter Effross, the Symposium's organizer and panel
moderator, at  (202) 274-4017, see our Symposium
website at
http://www.wcl.american.edu/pub/journals/lawrev/electronic_cash/con
f.htm, or email:
futurecash@wcl.american.edu.

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