# First mover advantage

`kaal:entity:first-mover-advantage`

**Status.** derived

This node is assembled mechanically from the 2 claims that carry the concept tag `first-mover-advantage`. 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 2017.

**2017**

- [2834531-030](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/2834531-030) [mechanism/argued] -- In a world where regulatory competition is the new normal, regulators can pay a heavy economic price for being overly cautious or for abandoning the attempt to establish a meaningful basis for regulation, because first mover markets capture the benefits.
  > regulators can pay a heavy economic price for being overly cautious or abandoning the project of trying to establish a meaningful basis for regulation.
  Mark Fenwick, Wulf A. Kaal, Erik P. M. Vermeulen, Regulation Tomorrow What Happens When Technology Is Faster Than the Law (2017). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2834531
- [2939127-004](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/2939127-004) [mechanism/speculative] -- Law schools that invest early in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and blockchain will gain a comparative advantage over peer schools irrespective of ranking, because demand for lawyers trained in those technologies is likely to spike once law firm adoption crosses a threshold.
  > comparative advantage vis-à-vis their peers, regardless of the ranking of such school, because the demand for lawyers adequately trained in artfical intelligence, machine learning, and blockchain is likely to increase sharply at a threshold point of law firm adoption.
  Mark Fenwick, Wulf A. Kaal, Erik P. M. Vermeulen, Legal Education in the Blockchain Revolution (2017). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2939127

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