Lecture: “What Kind of Innovation is e-CNY?” by Karman Lucero (Yale Law School), 21 April 2026, 16:30 (KWZ 0.608)
21. Apr 2026 @ 16:30 - 18:30
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Lecture: “What Kind of Innovation is e-CNY?” by Karman Lucero (Yale Law School), 21 April 2026, 16:30 (KWZ 0.608)
E-CNY: China’s Digital Currency
Join us on 21 April 2026 at 16:30 (KWZ 0.608) for an insightful talk by Karman Lucero, Senior Fellow at Yale Law School’s Paul Tsai China Center. In his lecture, “What kind of innovation is e-CNY?”, he explores China’s digital yuan, examining the gap between its ambitious policy goals and real-world implementation—and what this means for the future of global finance.
To sign up, please write a short email to chinarecht@jura.uni-goettingen.de
Title: E-CNY: China’s Digital Currency
Date: 21. April 2026, 16:30 Uhr
Room: KWZ 0.608
Speaker: Karman Lucero (Yale Law School’s Paul Tsai China Center)
This event is sponsored by AKI Göttingen (Academic Confucius Institute Göttingen), and organized by the DCIR and the Centre for Modern East Asian Studies (CeMEAS). Thank you for your cooperation!
Join us on 21 April 2026 at 16:30 (KWZ 0.608) for an insightful talk by Karman Lucero, Senior Fellow at Yale Law School’s Paul Tsai China Center. In his lecture, “What kind of innovation is e-CNY?”, he explores China’s digital yuan, examining the gap between its ambitious policy goals and real-world implementation—and what this means for the future of global finance.
To sign up, please write a short email to chinarecht@jura.uni-goettingen.de
Title: E-CNY: China’s Digital Currency
Date: 21. April 2026, 16:30 Uhr
Room: KWZ 0.608
Speaker: Karman Lucero (Yale Law School’s Paul Tsai China Center)
This event is sponsored by AKI Göttingen (Academic Confucius Institute Göttingen), and organized by the DCIR and the Centre for Modern East Asian Studies (CeMEAS). Thank you for your cooperation!
Title: “What kind of innovation is e-CNY?”
About the speaker:
Karman Lucero is a Senior Fellow at Yale Law School’s Paul Tsai China Center. His research focuses on China’s governance of emerging technologies, particularly artificial intelligence, AI governance in the U.S., global AI governance, and U.S.-China relations. He has organized multiple ongoing Track 1.5 and Track 2 dialogues that bring together academic and private sector experts as well as policy makers in the U.S. and China to address topics pertaining to domestic and transnational AI governance. He has published op-eds and public-facing scholarship in The Global Law Review, The Republic, The South China Morning Post, Project Syndicate, Lawfare, and elsewhere. Further, he has advised policy makers in the U.S., UK, EU, Japan, and other countries on how to understand and respond to China’s approach towards regulating AI, data flows, digital currencies, and other emerging technologies. He was a visiting scholar at Peking University and Renmin University and holds a J.D. and B.A. from Columbia University.
About the topic:
China has developed and promoted its own central bank digital currency (CBDC), the digital yuan (e-CNY), in order to stay ahead of the financial infrastructure of the future, strengthen state oversight and control over payments, and change the nature of its relationship with fintech giants. The state has also touted the longer-term goals of internationalizing the RMB and leading fintech advancements. In practice, the rollout of e-CNY has thus far fallen short of many of its stated goals. This discrepancy between policy goals and reality reveals important characteristics regarding the nature of digital currencies and their broader relationship to a national financial system. This lecture, divided in three parts, will present an overview of the current state of e-CNY in China, explore why there is a discrepancy between policy goals and the reality of implementation, and, finally, outline the lessons these dynamics have for policy makers across the world, considering CBDCs and the future of the global financial system.
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