Blockchain & Crypto Legal and Tax - LSU Law Prof

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Prof. Wright serves as the Vinson & Elkins Endowed Professor of Law at LSU Law Center, where he teaches in the areas of finance, business, securities, blockchain & crypto, and tax. He joined the LSU Law Center faculty in 2024, and has been a law professor since 2010. His current research focuses on the regulation of blockchain technologies, as well as tax and entrepreneurial law. Prof. Wright is the author of A Short & Happy Guide to Bitcoin, Blockchain, and Crypto (West Academic), which was published in 2020. He is currently writing Crypto & Blockchain Law – in a Nutshell (West Academic), which will be published in 2025. His scholarship has explored the intersection of tax, finance, securities law and regulation, and crypto, and he has had articles published in the Virginia Tax Journal, the Akron Law Review, the Arizona State Law Journal and BNA. He has presented on blockchain and crypto issues over three dozen times in the past two years, including to the Practicing Law Institute, the Harvard Alumni Association of DC, and to the University of Western Cape in South Africa. Before starting his career, Prof. Wright earned a Master’s in public policy from Harvard’s Kennedy School, focusing on financial policy and regulation, a Juris Doctor from The Law School at the University of Chicago (the capital “T” is their idea), and a Bachelor of Science in psychology from the University of Maryland. Prior to academia, Prof. Wright served (1) as a federal prosecutor with the U.S. Department of Justice, focusing on tax, white collar and organized crime. As a prosecutor, he secured convictions in all his cases; (2) as an attorney with Skadden Arps, where he worked in both the banking and tax groups, (3) as an attorney with other firms, where he focused on business and tax issues, including representing clients before the U.S. Tax Court, with amounts in controversy over $1 billion, and (4) as an investment banker, most recently with Bank of America, structuring derivatives and other so-called financial weapons of mass destruction (the good kind).