# Bylaws

`kaal:entity:bylaws`

**Status.** derived

This node is assembled mechanically from the 2 claims that carry the concept tag `bylaws`. 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

2 claims across 2 works, 2017 to 2021.

**2017**

- [2922176-036](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/2922176-036) [definitional/argued] -- In a decentralized autonomous organization a series of smart contracts grants token holders voting rights, so the blockchain-based smart contract performs the function that articles of incorporation or bylaws perform in a conventional company.
  > A series of smart contracts granted token holders voting rights. In this respect, the blockchain-based smart contract mimics the role of articles of incorporation or bylaws.
  Mark Fenwick, Wulf A. Kaal, Erik P. M. Vermeulen, The ‘Unmediated’ and ‘Tech-Driven’ Corporate Governance of Today's Winning Companies (2017). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2922176

**2021**

- [3799320-020](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3799320-020) [definitional/argued] -- Because a series of smart contracts grants DAO token holders voting rights, those smart contracts take the place of articles of association or bylaws and of the entire precedent system that a jurisdiction based legal structure would otherwise supply by default.
  > Because a series of smart contracts grants DAO token holders voting rights, the blockchain-based smart contracts imitates the role of articles of association or bylaws and the entirety of a precedent system that would otherwise be provided by default in a jurisdiction-based legal structure.
  Wulf A. Kaal, A Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) of DAOs (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3799320

## Verify

Every claim above resolves to a record carrying a verbatim source quote, the sha256 of the source PDF, and a preformatted citation. Nothing here asks to be taken on trust.

    curl -s https://wulfkaal.github.io/entities/bylaws.md | sha256sum

**Canonical form.** This markdown file is the canonical hashed representation of this entity node. Its sha256 is the content hash.