# Legal design

`kaal:entity:legal-design`

**Status.** derived

This node is assembled mechanically from the 4 claims that carry the concept tag `legal-design`. 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 2 works, 2021 to 2025.

**2021**

- [3799320-004](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3799320-004) [condition/argued] -- Only a jurisdiction that grants a DAO limited liability as an entity and accepts its independent status without requiring representation can be truly favorable to DAO concepts.
  > Only a jurisdiction that gives the DAO limited liability as an entity and accepts its independent status without the need for representation may truly be favorable for DAO concepts.
  Wulf A. Kaal, A Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) of DAOs (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3799320
- [3799320-016](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3799320-016) [condition/argued] -- DAOs cannot exist and persist without ever increasing degrees of decentralization, so DAO legal designs must first and foremost supplement the internal decentralization the DAO has achieved.
  > DAOs cannot exist and persist without ever increasing degrees of decentralization. Therefore, first and foremost, DAO legal designs need to supplement the internal decentralization accomplished by the DAO.
  Wulf A. Kaal, A Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) of DAOs (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3799320

**2025**

- [5554218-013](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/5554218-013) [condition/argued] *(failure mode)* -- A constructive balance to the inherent and unavoidable centralized character of national law cannot be achieved by imposing uniform legal standards on digital assets, because uniformity privileges the centralist features of law over the decentralized, permissionless nature of blockchain.
  > We argue that a constructive balance to the inherent and unavoidable centralized characteristics of national law cannot be found in imposing uniform legal standards on digital assets as this favors the centralist features of law to the decentralized, permissionless nature of blockchain.
  Furrer Andreas, Wulf A. Kaal, Universal Digital Law Codex (UDLC) Building the Legal Infrastructure for the Digital Era (2025). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5554218
- [5554218-014](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/5554218-014) [design/argued] -- Conflict of laws rules should instead be used as a vehicle for implementing innovative national legal systems that utilize decentralized governance models and respect the autonomy of blockchain.
  > conflict-of-laws rules should be used to implement innovative national legal systems that utilize decentralized governance models and respect the autonomy of blockchain.
  Furrer Andreas, Wulf A. Kaal, Universal Digital Law Codex (UDLC) Building the Legal Infrastructure for the Digital Era (2025). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5554218

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