Sydney Abualy - Associate
Sydney Lauren Abualy is a J.D. Candidate 2021 at Brooklyn Law School. Sydney has leveraged her academic work and experiential opportunities to study and monitor recent and cutting-edge developments in blockchain and digital currencies across use cases and industries.
At Brooklyn Law, Sydney currently serves as an Executive Articles Editor for the Brooklyn Journal of Corporate, Financial & Commercial Law. Her Note, "Estonia's Gift to the World: The Implementation of a Blockchain Protocol for Corporate Governance in New York," was recently published in the Spring 2020 edition of the Journal and explores how blockchain may be used within the nexus of corporate governance, particularly to enhance shareholder engagement and representation.
As a first-year law student, Sydney co-founded the Legal Hackers Brooklyn Law Chapter in 2018, representing one of the first student chapters of the international Legal Hackers organization. She launched a series of initiatives to encourage students to investigate how modern technologies impact the legal profession and to realize a lawyer’s role in interacting with these technologies. In her capacity as a representative of Legal Hackers, Sydney co-coordinated the NY Node of the MIT Open Media Legal Hackathon in 2018 to encourage the development of creative solutions for artists in the music and media industries concerning ownership, protection, distribution, and exchange of data and digital asset property rights.
Sydney’s devotion to the industry lead her to work as a legal intern in Blank Rome LLP,'s Blockchain Technology & Digital Currencies Group in 2019, where she focused on regulatory and policy concerns that affect the business models in the blockchain, FinTech, and digital currencies space. She also contributed to research of federal and state money transmission issues and federal and state regulatory enforcement actions.
During the Summer of 2020, Sydney will serve as a legal intern at Coinbase. Additionally, in Fall 2020, she will resume work as a student attorney in the Brooklyn Law School Incubator and Policy (BLIP) clinic, where she represents clients in the technology and entrepreneurship space and oversees bringing startups to market, from idea conception through full functioning ventures.
Sydney is particularly passionate about self and entity tokenization and how Distributed Autonomous Organizations can be operationalized to encourage effective user cooperation and governance.
In 2015, Sydney received her B.A. in Psychology with a concentration in Experimental Humanities from Bard College.
Sydney Lauren Abualy is a J.D. Candidate 2021 at Brooklyn Law School. Sydney has leveraged her academic work and experiential opportunities to study and monitor recent and cutting-edge developments in blockchain and digital currencies across use cases and industries.
At Brooklyn Law, Sydney currently serves as an Executive Articles Editor for the Brooklyn Journal of Corporate, Financial & Commercial Law. Her Note, "Estonia's Gift to the World: The Implementation of a Blockchain Protocol for Corporate Governance in New York," was recently published in the Spring 2020 edition of the Journal and explores how blockchain may be used within the nexus of corporate governance, particularly to enhance shareholder engagement and representation.
As a first-year law student, Sydney co-founded the Legal Hackers Brooklyn Law Chapter in 2018, representing one of the first student chapters of the international Legal Hackers organization. She launched a series of initiatives to encourage students to investigate how modern technologies impact the legal profession and to realize a lawyer’s role in interacting with these technologies. In her capacity as a representative of Legal Hackers, Sydney co-coordinated the NY Node of the MIT Open Media Legal Hackathon in 2018 to encourage the development of creative solutions for artists in the music and media industries concerning ownership, protection, distribution, and exchange of data and digital asset property rights.
Sydney’s devotion to the industry lead her to work as a legal intern in Blank Rome LLP,'s Blockchain Technology & Digital Currencies Group in 2019, where she focused on regulatory and policy concerns that affect the business models in the blockchain, FinTech, and digital currencies space. She also contributed to research of federal and state money transmission issues and federal and state regulatory enforcement actions.
During the Summer of 2020, Sydney will serve as a legal intern at Coinbase. Additionally, in Fall 2020, she will resume work as a student attorney in the Brooklyn Law School Incubator and Policy (BLIP) clinic, where she represents clients in the technology and entrepreneurship space and oversees bringing startups to market, from idea conception through full functioning ventures.
Sydney is particularly passionate about self and entity tokenization and how Distributed Autonomous Organizations can be operationalized to encourage effective user cooperation and governance.
In 2015, Sydney received her B.A. in Psychology with a concentration in Experimental Humanities from Bard College.