# Institutional inertia

`kaal:entity:institutional-inertia`

**Status.** derived

This node is assembled mechanically from the 3 claims that carry the concept tag `institutional-inertia`. 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

3 claims across 3 works, 2017 to 2024.

**2017**

- [2939127-005](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/2939127-005) [empirical/evidenced] -- The curriculum of American law schools has changed only marginally over the past thirty plus years, even as the practice environment has been transformed.
  > The curriculum of American law schools has only marginally changed over the last 30 plus years.
  Mark Fenwick, Wulf A. Kaal, Erik P. M. Vermeulen, Legal Education in the Blockchain Revolution (2017). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2939127

**2020**

- [3709041-022](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3709041-022) [failure/asserted] *(failure mode)* -- Representative democracies in the early 2020s were slow and inflexible because of their constitutional and institutional infrastructure and their legal systems, with change typically depending on the election of a new government after around four years at the earliest.
  > In the early 2020s, representative democracies were largely slow and inflexible because of their constitutional and institutional infrastructure and their respective legal systems.
  Kaal, Blockchain Technology for Good (2020). SSRN: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3709041

**2024**

- [4957318-027](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/4957318-027) [mechanism/argued] -- War functions as a catalyst for legal reform because it compels legislators to focus on laws immediately relevant to wartime and post war objectives, which enables rapid removal of outdated, inefficient, or irrelevant provisions that would otherwise persist.
  > Wars serve as a catalyst for legal reform by compelling legislators to focus on laws that are immediately relevant to wartime and post-war objectives, facilitating the rapid removal of outdated, inefficient, or irrelevant legal provisions.
  Wulf A. Kaal, The Future of Law - Dynamic Web3 Governance (2024). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4957318

## Verify

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