# kaal:claim:4957318-022

**Claim.** Removing laws without fully understanding their current applications or interdependencies creates legal gaps and unintended policy outcomes, so the act of cleanup can itself weaken regulatory or protective frameworks.

**Type.** failure  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- where repeal proceeds without mapping of downstream dependencies

**Source quote.**

> Removing laws without fully understanding their current applications or interdependencies could create legal gaps or unintended policy outcomes.

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *The Future of Law - Dynamic Web3 Governance* (2024), Legal Garbage Collection, Critique, page 20

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, The Future of Law - Dynamic Web3 Governance (2024). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4957318

**Verify.** sha256 of source PDF `137fb77eb82111a85f0ab5581926f762a7414ae84aaf3d56e8299db670e0e0c1` at https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wulfkaal/Academic-Papers/main/papers/pdf/Kaal%20-%202024%20-%20The%20Future%20of%20Law%20-%20Dynamic%20Web3%20Governance.pdf

**Failure mode.** repeal-induced-legal-gaps  (family: enforcement-gap)

**Topics.** law-and-legal-systems, risk-and-incentives, dynamic-regulation

**Keywords.** legal-garbage-collection, legal-gaps, unintended-consequences, repeal-risk, regulatory-design

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