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   "text": "Legal accumulation is produced by a specific legislative practice: new regulations are layered over existing ones without repealing outdated provisions. The resulting corpus is more complex and less transparent, which raises compliance costs for individuals and businesses.",
   "abstract": "However, the practice of layering new regulations over existing ones without repealing outdated provisions leads to legal accumulation. This accumulation makes the legal system more complex and less transparent, increasing the compliance costs for individuals and businesses.",
   "citation": "Wulf A. Kaal, The Future of Law - Dynamic Web3 Governance (2024). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4957318",
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   "text": "Codification is self defeating at scale: although a specific statute is individually cheaper to understand than a vague standard, the sheer volume of statutory law generates information costs that make the legal landscape more complex rather than simpler.",
   "abstract": "While a specific statute might appear easier and cheaper to understand than a vague standard, the sheer volume of new legislation creates significant \"information costs.\"7 These costs arise from the need to navigate and interpret an ever-growing body of statutory law,",
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