# kaal:claim:5554218-012

**Claim.** The authors contest the prevailing scholarly proposition that harmonized conflict of laws principles are necessary to govern digital assets across common and civil law jurisdictions, arguing that this proposition misconstrues the foundational ethos of blockchain technology.

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

**Holds when.**

- proposals advanced by Aleinieh, Zoboli, Atiyah, and Kasatkina

**Source quote.**

> The proposition that harmonized conflict of laws principles are necessary to govern digital assets across common law and civil law jurisdictions, as advocated by scholars like Aleinieh, Zoboli, Atiyah, and Kasatkina, misconstrues the foundational ethos of blockchain technology

**From.** Furrer Andreas, Wulf A. Kaal, *Universal Digital Law Codex (UDLC) Building the Legal Infrastructure for the Digital Era* (2025), 2.3.3 Preserving Decentralized Innovation in Digital Asset Governance, page 12

**Cite as.** Furrer Andreas, Wulf A. Kaal, Universal Digital Law Codex (UDLC) Building the Legal Infrastructure for the Digital Era (2025). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5554218

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**Failure mode.** Harmonization misconstrues blockchain ethos  (family: harmonization-and-standardization-failure)

**Topics.** decentralization, blockchain

**Keywords.** harmonization, conflict-of-laws, decentralization, blockchain-ethos, digital-assets

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