# kaal:claim:3652481-024

**Claim.** Because consumer protection is a core mandate of any legislature, legislatures are unlikely to surrender control and jurisdiction over a DAO, which would mean no legal recourse and no ability to sue in national courts, while at the same time granting the DAO limited liability.

**Type.** predictive  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- jurisdictions with a consumer protection mandate

**Source quote.**

> Because consumer protection is a core mandate for any legislature, it seems less likely that they will surrender control and jurisdiction over the DAO which includes no legal recourse, inability to sue in national courts etc, while also giving the DAO limited liability in that jurisdiction.

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *Decentralized Autonomous Organizations – Internal Governance and External Legal Design* (2020), IV. Governance & Legal Design Experimentation, page 31

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralized Autonomous Organizations – Internal Governance and External Legal Design (2020). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3652481

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**Failure mode.** consumer protection blocks DAO limited liability  (family: legal-personality-and-liability-gap)

**Topics.** law-and-legal-systems, dao

**Keywords.** consumer-protection, limited-liability, jurisdiction, dao-legal-design

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