# kaal:claim:3071378-006

**Claim.** Smart contracting often makes legal contracting unnecessary because smart contracts emulate the logic of legal contract clauses.

**Type.** mechanism  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- transactions whose logic can be expressed in code

**Source quote.**

> smart contracting often makes legal contracting unnecessary as smart contracts often emulate the logic of legal contract clauses.43

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *Blockchain Technology and Race in Corporate America* (2017), II. Blockchain Technology, page 10

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, Blockchain Technology and Race in Corporate America (2017). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3071378

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**Topics.** smart-contracts, law-and-legal-systems, decentralization

**Keywords.** smart-contracts, legal-contracting, disintermediation, code-as-law

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