# Bifurcation

`kaal:entity:bifurcation`

**Status.** derived

This node is assembled mechanically from the 4 claims that carry the concept tag `bifurcation`. It is a roster of what the corpus says under this term. It is **not** an adjudicated definition: no single statement here has been ruled canonical, and no first-appearance call has been made. Read the claims and judge for yourself.

## Every claim under this term

4 claims across 3 works, 2012 to 2021.

**2012**

- [2029983-011](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/2029983-011) [mechanism/argued] -- Jurisdictional competition in global securities litigation after Morrison will be bifurcated, because some jurisdictions recognize private rights of action while others do not, and some, including the United States, extend government enforcement extraterritorially where private suits are barred.
  > Bifurcated jurisdictional competition will characterize global securities litigation after Morrison because some juris- dictions recognize private rights of action whereas others do not,
  Wulf A. Kaal, Richard W. Painter, Forum Competition and Choice of Law Competition in Securities Law after Morrison v. National Austral (2012). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2029983
- [2029983-012](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/2029983-012) [failure/argued] *(failure mode)* -- Bifurcation lets a party to a disputed offshore transaction reintroduce U.S. law into the civil liability regime by threatening to involve the SEC or DOJ unless the other party offers an attractive settlement.
  > A party to a disputed transaction outside the United States can even reintroduce U.S. law into the civil liability re- gime by threatening to involve the SEC or DOJ if the other par- ty does not offer an attractive settlement.
  Wulf A. Kaal, Richard W. Painter, Forum Competition and Choice of Law Competition in Securities Law after Morrison v. National Austral (2012). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2029983

**2017**

- [2992962-022](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/2992962-022) [predictive/argued] -- Hybrid approaches and meta structures that connect the existing legal and regulatory infrastructure with blockchain based smart contracting will accelerate rather than slow the bifurcation of the jurisdictional infrastructure into traditional and crypto prongs.
  > Hybrid approaches and meta-structures that attempt to connect the existing legal and regulatory infrastructure with the blockchain-based world of smart contracting may ultimately accelerate the bifurcation of the jurisdictional infrastructure into traditional and crypto prongs
  Wulf A. Kaal, Craig Calcaterra, Crypto Transaction Dispute Resolution (2017). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2992962

**2021**

- [3808873-027](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3808873-027) [mechanism/argued] *(failure mode)* -- The regulation of government coins versus corporate coins versus people coins bifurcated the regulatory infrastructure for decentralized technologies, because government and corporate coins were able to develop and evolve with regulatory oversight while more decentralized issuers were not.
  > The regulation of government coins versus corporate coins versus people coins bifurcated the regulatory infrastructure for decentralized technologies. Government coins and corporate coins were able to develop and evolve with regulatory oversight.
  Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralization Neutralizers (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3808873

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