On Tuesday 20 October 2026, at 12:00, in Room D6/0.06 (Novoli Campus, Via delle Pandette 32, Florence), BABEL and the Department of Economics and Management (DISEI) host a guest lecture by Prof. Caroline Kleiner (Université Paris Cité; University of Luxembourg):
“The Digital Euro: A New Currency or a New Medium? Legal Tender, Monetary Power and Cross-Border Issues”
As the digital euro project moves forward, the lecture addresses three questions at the core of monetary law: what legal tender status would mean for a digital form of central bank money; how the issuance of a central bank digital currency reshapes monetary power; and which conflict-of-laws and cross-border issues arise when euro-denominated digital money circulates beyond the euro area.
Introduced by Filippo Zatti and Rosa Giovanna Barresi, with Arianna Abitante (European University Institute). The lecture is held in English within the courses Blockchain and Economic Law of Digital Assets, Economic Law and Business Law, Innovation and Sustainability (a.y. 2026/27), and is open to the Department community.
About the speaker
Caroline Kleiner is Professor of Private Law at Université Paris Cité and Guest Professor at the University of Luxembourg. Her research focuses on international monetary, banking and financial law, with particular attention to crypto-currencies and central bank digital currencies. She directs the Master in Business Law – Banking, Finance and Fintech, is a member of the Haut Comité Juridique de la Place financière de Paris, and sits on the French delegation to the Hague Conference on Private International Law working groups on digital tokens, central bank digital currencies and carbon credits.
Event page on the website of the School of Economics and Management: economia.unifi.it