kaal:claim:5554218-019

The code is law paradigm departs from existing legal systems in three linked ways: it shifts authority from sovereign institutions to technical protocols, replaces interpretive flexibility with deterministic enforcement, and substitutes technological neutrality for normative deliberation.

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fundamentally contrasts with existing legal systems by shifting authority from sovereign institutions to technical protocols, replacing interpretive flexibility with deterministic enforcement, and substituting normative deliberation with technological neutrality.

From

Furrer Andreas, Wulf A. Kaal, Universal Digital Law Codex (UDLC) Building the Legal Infrastructure for the Digital Era (2025), 3. Code is Law, p. 16
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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

Holds when

blockchain and smart contract architectures presented as self-sufficient regulation

Classification

mechanismsupport: arguedsmart-contractsgovernance-design

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