# Law reform

`kaal:entity:law-reform`

**Status.** derived

This node is assembled mechanically from the 4 claims that carry the concept tag `law-reform`. 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, 2010 to 2019.

**2010**

- [1664809-015](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/1664809-015) [mechanism/argued] -- Assimilation of US legal rules into European regulatory approaches may itself increase transaction costs for the jurisdiction that changes its law.
  > Assimilation of US legal rules in turn may result in increased
  Richard W. Painter, Wulf A. Kaal, Extraterritorial Application of US Securities Law – Will the US Become the Default Jurisdiction for (2010). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1664809

**2017**

- [2939127-011](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/2939127-011) [condition/argued] -- Legal Tech's disruptive innovation combined with the principles of the sharing economy requires lawyers and lawmakers to reevaluate their understanding of many areas of law.
  > Legal Tech's disruptive innovation in combination with the principles established by the sharing economy require lawyers and lawmakers to reevaluate their understanding of many areas of the law.
  Mark Fenwick, Wulf A. Kaal, Erik P. M. Vermeulen, Legal Education in the Blockchain Revolution (2017). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2939127
- [2939127-012](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/2939127-012) [failure/argued] *(failure mode)* -- Redesigning legal doctrine around sharing and decentralized peer to peer platforms demands out of the box thinking from a profession whose members were trained, both in law school and across their careers, to think inside the box.
  > Such an undertaking requires out-of-the-box thinking for lawyers who were trained during law school and during their entire careers to think inside the box.
  Mark Fenwick, Wulf A. Kaal, Erik P. M. Vermeulen, Legal Education in the Blockchain Revolution (2017). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2939127

**2019**

- [3411110-024](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3411110-024) [design/argued] -- The regulatory challenges of blockchain based offerings should be addressed by revising federal securities law provisions to recognize digital securities, to permit broad based trading of equity-equivalent digital securities, and to permit their margining.
  > may be in part addressed by revising several federal securities law provisions to allow: (i) recognition of "digital securities," (ii) broad-based trading of equity-equivalent "digital securities," and (iii) margining of "digital securities."
  Wulf A. Kaal, Samuel Evans, Blockchain-Based Securities Offerings (2019). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3411110

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