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Painter, Wulf A. Kaal, Regulatory Competition in EU Corporate Law after Inspire Art Unbundling Delaware's Product for Euro (2004). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=617681", "datePublished": "2004", "claim_type": "design", "confidence": "argued", "is_failure_mode": false, "scope_conditions": [ "Member States exporting corporate law beyond their borders" ], "source_pdf_sha256": "e142130507ea2f5b025fd97b3f762d44ee3a7aaa82b155aab63434b85e8fd834", "status": "current" }, { "@type": "Claim", "@id": "https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/617681-012", "identifier": "kaal:claim:617681-012", "text": "Delaware itself acknowledges the utility of unbundling statutes from adjudication, though not in its corporate law: its LLC statute specifically allows members or managers to agree in writing to arbitration of claims under the LLC agreement.", "abstract": "Delaware itself acknowledges the utility of unbundling statutes from adjudication, although not in its corporate law. In its LLC statute, Delaware specifically allows members or managers to agree in the LLC agreement, or in another writing, for arbitration of claims under the agreement.", "citation": "Christian Kirchner, Richard W. Painter, Wulf A. Kaal, Regulatory Competition in EU Corporate Law after Inspire Art Unbundling Delaware's Product for Euro (2004). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=617681", "datePublished": "2004", "claim_type": "empirical", "confidence": "evidenced", "is_failure_mode": false, "scope_conditions": [ "Delaware limited liability companies, not Delaware corporations" ], "source_pdf_sha256": "e142130507ea2f5b025fd97b3f762d44ee3a7aaa82b155aab63434b85e8fd834", "status": "current" }, { "@type": "Claim", "@id": "https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/617681-029", "identifier": "kaal:claim:617681-029", "text": "A single body of arbitrators affiliated through an association is better positioned than the courts of separate Member States to develop a systematic and consistent approach to the conflict of laws problems unique to the incorporation theory.", "abstract": "A single body of arbitrators, affiliated through an association, is theoretically at least in a better position to develop a more systematic and consistent approach to conflict of laws problems unique to the incorporation theory.", "citation": "Christian Kirchner, Richard W. Painter, Wulf A. Kaal, Regulatory Competition in EU Corporate Law after Inspire Art Unbundling Delaware's Product for Euro (2004). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=617681", "datePublished": "2004", "claim_type": "design", "confidence": "argued", "is_failure_mode": false, "scope_conditions": [ "early stages of Type B regulatory competition in Europe" ], "source_pdf_sha256": "e142130507ea2f5b025fd97b3f762d44ee3a7aaa82b155aab63434b85e8fd834", "status": "current" }, { "@type": "Claim", "@id": "https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/617681-036", "identifier": "kaal:claim:617681-036", "text": "Member States should provide in their corporate statutes an arbitration enabling provision allowing corporate charters to mandate arbitration of internal affairs disputes instead of adjudication in national courts.", "abstract": "Member States could specifically provide in their statutes an \"arbitration enabling provision\" allowing corporate charters to mandate arbitration of disputes over the internal affairs of the corporation instead of adjudication in national courts.", "citation": "Christian Kirchner, Richard W. Painter, Wulf A. Kaal, Regulatory Competition in EU Corporate Law after Inspire Art Unbundling Delaware's Product for Euro (2004). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=617681", "datePublished": "2004", "claim_type": "design", "confidence": "argued", "is_failure_mode": false, "scope_conditions": [ "Member States wishing to offer an unbundled corporate law product" ], "source_pdf_sha256": "e142130507ea2f5b025fd97b3f762d44ee3a7aaa82b155aab63434b85e8fd834", "status": "current" }, { "@type": "Claim", "@id": "https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/617681-038", "identifier": "kaal:claim:617681-038", "text": "Arbitration of corporate governance disputes has not emerged in the United States because arbitration is at best the next best alternative to Delaware, and a second place finish does not justify the investment needed to design a workable arbitration framework.", "abstract": "Arbitration of corporate law disputes may be the next best alternative to Delaware, but a second place finish in regulatory competition probably does not justify the investment needed to design an arbitration framework that overcomes many of Coffee's specific objections.", "citation": "Christian Kirchner, Richard W. Painter, Wulf A. Kaal, Regulatory Competition in EU Corporate Law after Inspire Art Unbundling Delaware's Product for Euro (2004). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=617681", "datePublished": "2004", "claim_type": "failure", "confidence": "argued", "is_failure_mode": true, "scope_conditions": [ "United States, where Delaware's adjudication system commands high confidence" ], "source_pdf_sha256": "e142130507ea2f5b025fd97b3f762d44ee3a7aaa82b155aab63434b85e8fd834", "status": "current" }, { "@type": "Claim", "@id": "https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/617681-039", "identifier": "kaal:claim:617681-039", "text": "Europe has no equivalent of Delaware with which arbitration would have to compete, since incorporation theory is only beginning to take hold and no Member State has established a commanding lead in marketing its corporate law abroad.", "abstract": "Europe, however, has no equivalent of Delaware with which arbitration would have to compete. Incorporation theory is just beginning to take hold on the Continent and no Member State has yet established a commanding lead in marketing its corporate law outside its borders.", "citation": "Christian Kirchner, Richard W. Painter, Wulf A. Kaal, Regulatory Competition in EU Corporate Law after Inspire Art Unbundling Delaware's Product for Euro (2004). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=617681", "datePublished": "2004", "claim_type": "condition", "confidence": "argued", "is_failure_mode": false, "scope_conditions": [ "Europe shortly after Centros and Inspire Art" ], "source_pdf_sha256": "e142130507ea2f5b025fd97b3f762d44ee3a7aaa82b155aab63434b85e8fd834", "status": "current" }, { "@type": "Claim", "@id": "https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/617681-040", "identifier": "kaal:claim:617681-040", "text": "One objection to arbitration of corporate governance disputes holds in Europe as in the United States: arbitration as ordinarily used yields little relevant precedent.", "abstract": "Coffee has one objection to arbitration of corporate governance disputes that is as persuasive in Europe as in the United States. Arbitration, as it is used in most contexts, yields little relevant precedent.", "citation": "Christian Kirchner, Richard W. Painter, Wulf A. Kaal, Regulatory Competition in EU Corporate Law after Inspire Art Unbundling Delaware's Product for Euro (2004). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=617681", "datePublished": "2004", "claim_type": "failure", "confidence": "argued", "is_failure_mode": true, "scope_conditions": [ "arbitration as it is used in most commercial contexts" ], "source_pdf_sha256": "e142130507ea2f5b025fd97b3f762d44ee3a7aaa82b155aab63434b85e8fd834", "status": "current" }, { "@type": "Claim", "@id": "https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/617681-041", "identifier": "kaal:claim:617681-041", "text": "Expert judges in national courts who cannot understand the arguments of lawyers before them or read documents written in another language may not be experts at all, so the American model of state appointed expert corporate judges does not transfer to multilingual Europe.", "abstract": "but in Europe \"expert\" judges in national courts who cannot understand the arguments of lawyers before them or who cannot read underlying documents written in another language may not be experts at all.", "citation": "Christian Kirchner, Richard W. Painter, Wulf A. Kaal, Regulatory Competition in EU Corporate Law after Inspire Art Unbundling Delaware's Product for Euro (2004). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=617681", "datePublished": "2004", "claim_type": "failure", "confidence": "argued", "is_failure_mode": true, "scope_conditions": [ "Europe, in contrast with the single language United States" ], "source_pdf_sha256": "e142130507ea2f5b025fd97b3f762d44ee3a7aaa82b155aab63434b85e8fd834", "status": "current" }, { "@type": "Claim", "@id": "https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/617681-042", "identifier": "kaal:claim:617681-042", "text": "Unless the Member State of incorporation specifically provides in its corporate statute that arbitration is permissible when allowed in the charter or a shareholders agreement, investors run the risk that courts refuse to enforce the arbitration provision.", "abstract": "specifically provide in its corporate statute that arbitration is permissible if allowed in either the corporate charter or (for a closely held corporation) in a shareholders' agreement. Otherwise, investors run the risk that courts refuse to enforce the arbitration provision.", "citation": "Christian Kirchner, Richard W. Painter, Wulf A. Kaal, Regulatory Competition in EU Corporate Law after Inspire Art Unbundling Delaware's Product for Euro (2004). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=617681", "datePublished": "2004", "claim_type": "condition", "confidence": "argued", "is_failure_mode": true, "scope_conditions": [ "closely held corporations may rely on a shareholders agreement instead of the charter" ], "source_pdf_sha256": "e142130507ea2f5b025fd97b3f762d44ee3a7aaa82b155aab63434b85e8fd834", "status": "current" }, { "@type": "Claim", "@id": "https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3125822-031", "identifier": "kaal:claim:3125822-031", "text": "Smart contracts give insurance against an unfair settlement only under stated conditions, among them that anonymous arbiters are chosen randomly with weight given by their availability stakes and that arbiters must post evidence of work for evaluation by the forum.", "abstract": "Further, smart contracts written as suggested above give insurance an unfair settlement will never occur if 1) anonymous arbiters are randomly chosen according to the weight of their availability stakes, 2) arbiters are required to post evidence-of-work posts for evaluation by the forum", "citation": "Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Vlad Andrei, Blockchain Infrastructure for Measuring Domain Specific Reputation in Autonomous Decentralized and A (2018). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3125822", "datePublished": "2018", "claim_type": "condition", "confidence": "argued", "is_failure_mode": false, "scope_conditions": [ "requires random weighted selection of anonymous arbiters", "requires mandatory evidence of work posts", "further requires claimant comment space and an appeals system" ], "source_pdf_sha256": "d4d0bbaa3260968226186131d60e6d64a53e904d94e4295c61fd17042f1191ef", "status": "current" }, { "@type": "Claim", "@id": "https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3782214-032", "identifier": "kaal:claim:3782214-032", "text": "To preserve the efficiency of a self executing code is law smart contract, the appeals process must be built into the code itself, with triggers either party can engage that freeze the encumbered assets and transfer partial powers of disbursement to a third party arbiter.", "abstract": "To maintain the efficiency of the self-executing code-is-law smart contract, the appeals process must be built into the code.", "citation": "Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralized Governance (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782214", "datePublished": "2021", "claim_type": "design", "confidence": "argued", "is_failure_mode": false, "scope_conditions": [ "self executing smart contracts hosted by a DAO" ], "source_pdf_sha256": "ba892bb200c1455447c0014f5067a501a93ea9ec413c31942d95952eb3bdfd9d", "status": "current" }, { "@type": "Claim", "@id": "https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3782214-033", "identifier": "kaal:claim:3782214-033", "text": "Without unifying transcendental ideals, liminal cases will fragment a decentralized network; transcendental values are therefore always necessary to maintain the stability of a network and should be the first thing a DAO establishes.", "abstract": "Without such unifying ideals, liminal cases will fragment the network. Ultimately, transcendental values are always necessary to maintain the sta- bility of a network, so they are the first thing the DAO should establish.", "citation": "Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralized Governance (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782214", "datePublished": "2021", "claim_type": "condition", "confidence": "argued", "is_failure_mode": true, "scope_conditions": [ "novel disputes that fall outside existing hard protocols" ], "source_pdf_sha256": "ba892bb200c1455447c0014f5067a501a93ea9ec413c31942d95952eb3bdfd9d", "status": "current" }, { "@type": "Claim", "@id": "https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/5887242-014", "identifier": "kaal:claim:5887242-014", "text": "Where national law demands a counterparty for enforcement, parties may voluntarily designate ad-hoc representatives or arbitral institutions, but such arrangements stay external to the DAO and do not affect its internal decision-making.", "abstract": "Where national law demands a counterparty for enforcement, parties may voluntarily designate ad-hoc representatives or arbitral institutions, but such arrangements remain external to the DAO itself and do not affect internal decision-making.", "citation": "Wulf A. Kaal, The UDLC DAO Operationalizing a Continuously Evolving Universal Digital Law Codex Through Weighted (2025). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5887242", "datePublished": "2025", "claim_type": "condition", "confidence": "asserted", "is_failure_mode": false, "scope_conditions": [ "national law requires an identifiable counterparty for enforcement" ], "source_pdf_sha256": "4e5c2e2b4304af6d22e0b0939b1fddeabcf091e19a1b00b7bfccf77cbd6280c5", "status": "current" } ], "description": "13 claims in the published works of Wulf A. Kaal carry the concept tag 'arbitration'. Derived node: a roster, not an adjudicated definition." }