# kaal:claim:5887242-026

**Claim.** The on-chain reputation score becomes a universal, jurisdiction-neutral credential for digital-law expertise, analogous to a dynamically updated h-index for legal scholarship but cryptographically verifiable and immune to institutional capture.

**Type.** definitional  **Support.** argued

**Source quote.**

> The on-chain reputation score thereby becomes the universal, jurisdiction-neutral credential for digital-law expertise—analogous to a dynamically updated h-index for global legal scholarship, but cryptographically verifiable and immune to institutional capture.

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *The UDLC DAO Operationalizing a Continuously Evolving Universal Digital Law Codex Through Weighted* (2025), Chapter III.C.3, page 18

**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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**Topics.** regulatory-failure, institutional-design, law-and-legal-systems

**Keywords.** credential, h-index, institutional-capture, jurisdiction-neutral

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