The widespread hype of blockchain technology over the past decade or so has sparked a wave of interest in ‘tokenisation’. Borrowing an expression from data security in which sensitive information such as credit card details were tokenised through substitution with non-sensitive information,...

One of the selling points of cryptoassets has been the ability to subject them to so-called ‘smart contracts’ embedded upon blockchains; yet, despite numerous common law decisions accepting cryptoassets as property, until Janesh s/o Rajkumar v Unknown Person (“CHEFPIERRE”) [2022] SGHC...

Spatial price integration is extensively studied in commodity markets as a means of examining the degree of integration between regions of a geographically diverse market. Many commodity markets that are commonly studied are supported by a well-defined transportation network, such as the network...

Problem definition: Geographical mismatch between demand for care and availability of healthcare resources has been a major challenge during the COVID-19 pandemic. As such, inter-hospital patient transfers have emerged as a key aspect of the pandemic response in many countries. We propose and...

The concept of a blockchain was pioneered by Satoshi Nakamoto in his white paper on Bitcoin in 2008, igniting cryptomania by 2013. Despite growing skepticism, blockchain technology continues to be proposed for use in a wide range of activities implicating the law ranging from inter-bank...

Blockchain and distributed ledger technology (DLT) has generated much excitement over the past decade, with proclamations that it would disrupt everything from elections to finance. Unsurprisingly, the much-maligned corporate form is also considered ripe for disruption. While certainly...

When bitcoin was released by the mysterious Satoshi Nakamoto in 2008, few could have predicted that it would attract as much attention as it has today. It has spawned a veritable host of other cryptocurrencies, including ether on the upstart Ethereum network, which boasts smart contract...

The latest wave of cryptomania has brought us yet another acronym after ICOs (initial coin offerings) – NFTs (non-fungible tokens). Touted as a means to render readily replicable digital art (and possibly other objects) rare and scarce, NFT-mania reached its apogee with the auction of...

The concept of property has always been, and remains, a vexed notion. Within civilian systems, the difficulty of incorporating the basic idea of ownership – surely fundamental to any idea of property – within the Gaian and other schema demonstrates the elusiveness of property. Its...

The explosion of interest in cryptoassets has revived interest in a curious notion in the law of personal property: the tertium quid or personal property that is neither a thing in possession nor a thing in action. This renaissance, however, has not taken into account historical debates over the...