# kaal:claim:5887242-013

**Claim.** By rejecting any requirement for a legal entity, board, or registered agent, the UDLC DAO escapes the centralization trap that undermined earlier DAO legal structures while remaining enforceable through standard private international law.

**Type.** design  **Support.** argued

**Source quote.**

> By rejecting any requirement for a legal entity, board, or registered agent, the UDLC DAO preserves pure code-based governance while remaining enforceable through standard private international law mechanisms.

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *The UDLC DAO Operationalizing a Continuously Evolving Universal Digital Law Codex Through Weighted* (2025), Chapter II.B, page 7

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, The UDLC DAO Operationalizing a Continuously Evolving Universal Digital Law Codex Through Weighted (2025). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5887242

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**Failure mode.** legal-wrapper-centralization  (family: recentralization-drift)

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

**Keywords.** centralization-trap, dao-legal-structures, private-international-law, enforceability

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