Season 2, Episode 7 – How Can Blockchain and Law be Used for Social Good (with Michele Neitz)

07/07/22 • 24 min

Michele Benedetto Neitz is a Professor of Law at Golden Gate University School of Law and the Founding Director of the Blockchain Law for Social Good Center, the first of its kind in the United States. She teaches Blockchain and the Law, Business Associations, Legal Ethics, and other classes. She has been voted “Most Outstanding Professor” by the graduating class of GGU Law six times, most recently in 2022.

Professor Neitz was appointed to advise the California legislature as a member of the California Blockchain Working Group in 2019. She researches and lectures on ethical, regulatory, and social impact issues in blockchain technology, and published the first law review article examining ethics in blockchain technology in January 2020. Her most recent article, entitled “How to Regulate Blockchain’s Real-Life Applications: Lessons from the California Blockchain Working Group,” was published by the peer-reviewed Jurimetrics Journal in 2021. Professor Neitz regularly speaks at tech and law conferences on these issues, including recent presentations at the CITRIS Research Exchange Panel at UC Berkeley and Bilgi University’s Data Driven Economy Lab in Istanbul, Turkey.

Professor Neitz graduated as a Root-Tilden-Scholar from New York University School of Law. Before joining academia, she clerked in the Southern District of California for Judge Napoleon Jones. She also worked as an Equal Justice Works fellow at the Legal Aid Society of San Diego and was an associate at Morrison & Foerster.

Two months ago, Professor Michele Neitz founded the first-of-its-kind Blockchain Law for Social Good Center at Golden Gate University School of Law. The Center's three pillars--education, community, and research/policy--are creating a new model of blockchain education for law students, lawyers, and policymakers. Join us to find out how the Center is training government agencies to look at blockchain as a tool for social good. There is more to this technology's story than crypto scams!

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Season 2, Episode 6 – NFTs in Hollywood (with Kadeem Clarke)

Kadeem Clarke is an entrepreneur, blockchain expert, and venture capitalist investing in the top cryptocurrency companies of the future. In addition to being a freelance digital consultant for tech startups and small businesses, Kadeem is Head of Labs of Momentum 6, a value-add-focused VC fund in the crypto space. Momentum 6 invests in early-stage cryptocurrency startups and provides incubation services, from marketing to tokenomics, to help grow portfolio companies. At Momentum 6, Kadeem leads a research team that publishes educational content about blockchain projects and related topics. Kadeem also works with recording artists to launch NFT drops.

Most current NFT projects target crypto investors and the wealthy with ultra-expensive PFP NFTs that gate access to communities and protocols. In P2E games, NFTs are used to power in-game economies. These use-cases have grown to large markets, but don't address the mass. NFTs are gradually disrupting the media and entertainment industry, tune in to learn more about Kadeem's predictions on how this will happen.

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Season 2, Episode 8 – Web 3 Industry: How to Onboard (with Brian Schuster)

Brian Schuster is a Software Developer, Technical Manager and Entrepreneur building devMint School to close the talent gap in the Web3 industry. Brian started his career non-technical, graduating with a Business Degree from UNC. After studying entrepreneurship at MIT and realizing that the best opportunities were in technology, Brian started a rigourous self-study practice to learn software development. These practices eventually led him to roles including Infrastructure Developer, Solution Architect and DevOps Engineer. Brian now uses his dual background in business and technology to help people find new, exciting opportunities in the technology field.

He's used his knowledge of how to find and execute on new opportunities to help successfully mentor hundreds of students looking to join technology companies. In his latest venture, Schuster is upskilling senior engineers and placing them into fast growing Web3 organizations.

In thisepisode, we will discuss how both technical and non-technical executives can onboard into the Web3 space. The industry is growing very fast, but seem dauntingly out of reach for most individuals, especially those without a technical background. It seems that you have to have an unbelievably crazy, smart or lucky to get rooted in this industry. But the truth is that there are a ton of opportunities if you know how to build them. If you’re an investor and want to do more, or just someone wanting to take part in the excitement, this is the discussion for you!