Yüksel Ripley, BurcuMacpherson, AlisdairCarey, Luci2025-07-242025-07-242025-05Yüksel Ripley, B, Macpherson, A & Carey, L 2025, 'Digital Assets in Scots Private Law : Innovating for the Future', Edinburgh Law Review, vol. 29, no. 2, pp. 175-210. https://doi.org/10.3366/elr.2025.09551364-9809ORCID: /0009-0002-2474-6096/work/188765976ORCID: /0000-0001-8843-3123/work/188766151ORCID: /0000-0001-6549-5831/work/188766642https://hdl.handle.net/2164/25748Burcu Yüksel Ripley is a Professor of Law, Alisdair MacPherson is a Senior Lecturer in Commercial Law, and Luci Carey is a Lecturer in Law at the University of Aberdeen, School of Law. This article is an output of the “Digital Assets in Scots Private Law: Innovating for the Future” project generously funded by a Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE) Research Workshop Grant. The project was conducted by the authors at the University of Aberdeen in collaboration with Professor David Fox and Dr Simone Lamont-Black (University of Edinburgh), Dr Lorna Gillies (University of Dundee), and Fiona Henderson (CMS). The authors are grateful to the RSE, the collaborators, and workshop participants across Scotland, the UK, and Europe from academia, legal practice, industry, the judiciary, policymaking, government and international organisations. For further details on the project and other outputs, see https://www.abdn.ac.uk/law/research/centres/centre-for-commercial-law/digital-assets-in-scots-private-law-innovating-for-the-future/. The authors are also grateful to Professor Abbe Brown and Professor Andrew Steven, as well as the anonymous reviewer, for their helpful comments and suggestions on earlier drafts of this article. The article is based on law and practice stated as of 30 November 2024. The opinions expressed in this article are those of the authors unless stated otherwise.36199037engSubstantive connection via an eligible employment contractSDG 3 - Good Health and Well-beingDigital assetsPrivate LawScots LawKDC ScotlandKDCJournal article10.3366/elr.2025.0955292