Can only a law professor teach about smart contracts? Universities have faced several challenges with adding crypto classes to their curriculum such as a scarcity of knowledgeable lecturers and an ecosystem that develops much faster than they can reprint books. Now they also have to worry about different departments bickering over control of the multifaceted subject.
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Academic Tug of War Over Crypto Classes
Garrick Hileman, who lectured about cryptocurrencies as part of a master of finance course at the University of Cambridge, told the Financial Times that: “It wouldn’t surprise me to see some turf wars break out over who owns the blockchain curriculum at business schools.”
David Yermack, professor of finance at New York University Stern School of Business, started teaching about Bitcoin to MBA students back in 2014. He explains that: “It’s interdisciplinary. The computer science and finance industries have merged and this needs to happen in universities too. But universities are bureaucratic — it will be political and take time.”
Demand From Students, Finance and Tech Companies
Robert Wardrop, director of the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance at the Judge Business School, said that demand for teaching crypto skills is mainly coming from tech companies such as Amazon, Google and Microsoft. “The core focus of interest is growing from non-financial firms.” These “are essential to related projects that these businesses are working on. Understanding issues like asset tokenisation is quite fundamental . . . in terms of your business model but also to your capital raising,” he added.
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