# kaal:claim:4957318-023

**Claim.** Legal garbage collection faces an unavoidable tradeoff: streamlining the legal framework by removing outdated laws must be balanced against preserving legal history, since historical statutes record the evolution of legal principles and societal values.

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

**Holds when.**

- where removal is implemented as deletion rather than archiving

**Source quote.**

> While the removal of outdated laws can help streamline the legal framework, there is also a need to balance this with the preservation of legal history.

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *The Future of Law - Dynamic Web3 Governance* (2024), Legal Garbage Collection, Critique, page 21

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

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**Failure mode.** history-versus-cleanup-tradeoff  (family: rule-obsolescence-and-ossification)

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

**Keywords.** legal-garbage-collection, legal-history, archival-preservation, legal-heritage, reform-tradeoffs

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