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National Austral", "year": "2012", "quote": "The transactional test in Morrison could be relatively short lived because it is rooted in geography and an increasing num- ber of securities transactions defy geographical boundaries.", "citation": "Wulf A. Kaal, Richard W. Painter, Forum Competition and Choice of Law Competition in Securities Law after Morrison v. National Austral (2012). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2029983" }, { "id": "kaal:claim:kaal-2013-acomparativeperspectiveo-023", "url": "https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/kaal-2013-acomparativeperspectiveo-023", "claim": "Cost increases and path dependencies may make it nearly impossible to relax the close to insurmountable standard for liability in oversight cases.", "specific_name": "path dependency blocking liability reform", "conditions": [ "United States corporate law", "existing liability regime already entrenched" ], "source": "A Comparative Perspective on the Limitations of the Duty of Oversight – A Comment on Lisa Fairfax", "year": "2013", "quote": "Moreover, cost increases and path dependencies may make it nearly impossible to relax the close to insurmountable standard for liability in oversight cases.", "citation": "Kaal, A Comparative Perspective on the Limitations of the Duty of Oversight – A Comment on Lisa Fairfax (2013)" }, { "id": "kaal:claim:kaal-2013-acomparativeperspectiveo-027", "url": "https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/kaal-2013-acomparativeperspectiveo-027", "claim": "Governance adjustments are often enacted merely to address the problem perceived in the given market environment and the then existing economic conditions, without regard to possible future developments.", "specific_name": "reforms fitted only to the crisis at hand", "conditions": [ "crisis driven governance reform" ], "source": "A Comparative Perspective on the Limitations of the Duty of Oversight – A Comment on Lisa Fairfax", "year": "2013", "quote": "Governance adjustments are often enacted merely to address the then perceived problem in the given market environment and in the then existing economic conditions, without regard to possible future developments.", "citation": "Kaal, A Comparative Perspective on the Limitations of the Duty of Oversight – A Comment on Lisa Fairfax (2013)" }, { "id": "kaal:claim:kaal-2013-acomparativeperspectiveo-029", "url": "https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/kaal-2013-acomparativeperspectiveo-029", "claim": "The economic conditions and the corresponding requirements for optimal and stable rules are constantly evolving, so rules fixed at one moment lose their fit over time.", "specific_name": "obsolescence of stable rules in evolving markets", "conditions": [ "evolving market environments" ], "source": "A Comparative Perspective on the Limitations of the Duty of Oversight – A Comment on Lisa Fairfax", "year": "2013", "quote": "However, the economic conditions and the corresponding requirements for optimal and stable rules are constantly evolving.", "citation": "Kaal, A Comparative Perspective on the Limitations of the Duty of Oversight – A Comment on Lisa Fairfax (2013)" }, { "id": "kaal:claim:2273857-010", "url": "https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/2273857-010", "claim": "A regulatory framework that relies exclusively on stable and presumptively optimal rules cannot adequately address future challenges, and the amendments, revisions, and retractions such a framework generates create substantial transaction costs and uncertainty.", "specific_name": "cost of perpetual rule revision", "conditions": [ "framework relies exclusively on stable rules" ], "source": "Dynamic Regulation of the Financial Services Industry", "year": "2013", "quote": "A regulatory framework that relies exclusively on stable and presumptively optimal rules may not be able to adequately address future challenges. Amendments, revisions, and retractions of existing rules create substantial transaction costs and uncertainty.", "citation": "Wulf A. Kaal, Dynamic Regulation of the Financial Services Industry (2013). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2273857" }, { "id": "kaal:claim:2273857-011", "url": "https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/2273857-011", "claim": "Rules established in reaction to financial crises inevitably fail to soften, curtail, or preempt the effects of financial crises, because reactive rules are tailored to the economic and regulatory issues existing at the time of enactment and ignore possible future contingencies.", "specific_name": "reactive rule obsolescence", "conditions": [ "rules enacted reactively after a crisis" ], "source": "Dynamic Regulation of the Financial Services Industry", "year": "2013", "quote": "Rules established in reaction to financial crises also inevitably fail to soften, curtail, or preempt the effects of financial crises because reactive rules are mostly tailored to the economic and regulatory issues at the time of their enactment and often ignore possible future contingencies.", "citation": "Wulf A. Kaal, Dynamic Regulation of the Financial Services Industry (2013). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2273857" }, { "id": "kaal:claim:2273857-026", "url": "https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/2273857-026", "claim": "The cyclical nature of public rulemaking under incomplete information and bounded rationality is costly and produces suboptimal regulatory outcomes with long-term implications for financial markets and the economy.", "specific_name": "cyclical rulemaking cost", "conditions": [ "rulemaking conducted cyclically under incomplete information" ], "source": "Dynamic Regulation of the Financial Services Industry", "year": "2013", "quote": "The cyclical nature of public rulemaking under conditions of incomplete information and bounded rationality is costly and can produce suboptimal regulatory outcomes, often with long-term implications for financial markets and the economy.", "citation": "Wulf A. Kaal, Dynamic Regulation of the Financial Services Industry (2013). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2273857" }, { "id": "kaal:claim:2273857-031", "url": "https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/2273857-031", "claim": "The regulatory expansion that follows crises inevitably leads to amendments, revisions, and retractions of the previously established rules.", "specific_name": "inevitable regulatory contraction", "conditions": [ "rules created during post-crisis regulatory expansion" ], "source": "Dynamic Regulation of the Financial Services Industry", "year": "2013", "quote": "The regulatory expansion that follows crises inevitably leads to amendments, revisions, and retractions of previously established rules.", "citation": "Wulf A. Kaal, Dynamic Regulation of the Financial Services Industry (2013). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2273857" }, { "id": "kaal:claim:2267560-009", "url": "https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/2267560-009", "claim": "Rules with suboptimal characteristics are themselves the product of institutional arrangements and reinforce those suboptimal institutional arrangements and rulemaking processes, creating a self-perpetuating feedback loop.", "specific_name": "self-reinforcing suboptimal institutional arrangements", "conditions": [], "source": "Evolution of Law Dynamic Regulation in a New Institutional Economics Framework", "year": "2013", "quote": "Rules with suboptimal characteristics are the results of institutional arrangements and reinforce suboptimal institutional arrangements and rulemaking processes.", "citation": "Wulf A. Kaal, Evolution of Law Dynamic Regulation in a New Institutional Economics Framework (2013). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2267560" }, { "id": "kaal:claim:2267560-010", "url": "https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/2267560-010", "claim": "Even institutional arrangements that produce optimal governance solutions generate solutions that become suboptimal over time, necessitating rule revision, updating, and revocation.", "specific_name": "decay of optimal governance solutions over time", "conditions": [ "passage of time and changing circumstances" ], "source": "Evolution of Law Dynamic Regulation in a New Institutional Economics Framework", "year": "2013", "quote": "Even if institutional arrangements produce optimal governance solutions, these solutions can become suboptimal over time, necessitating rule revision, updating, and revocation.", "citation": "Wulf A. Kaal, Evolution of Law Dynamic Regulation in a New Institutional Economics Framework (2013). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2267560" }, { "id": "kaal:claim:2267560-011", "url": "https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/2267560-011", "claim": "Rules that lack adaptability to future states of the world reinforce the very institutions and processes that produce suboptimal outcomes.", "specific_name": "non-adaptable rules entrench suboptimal institutions", "conditions": [], "source": "Evolution of Law Dynamic Regulation in a New Institutional Economics Framework", "year": "2013", "quote": "Rules that lack adaptability to future states of the world reinforce institutions and processes that produce suboptimal outcomes.", "citation": "Wulf A. Kaal, Evolution of Law Dynamic Regulation in a New Institutional Economics Framework (2013). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2267560" }, { "id": "kaal:claim:2267560-019", "url": "https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/2267560-019", "claim": "NIE acknowledges that transaction costs, imperfect information, and bounded rationality influence the rulemaking process, with the consequence that even optimal solutions to regulatory problems become unstable and suboptimal over time.", "specific_name": "instability of optimal regulatory solutions", "conditions": [], "source": "Evolution of Law Dynamic Regulation in a New Institutional Economics Framework", "year": "2013", "quote": "NIE acknowledges that transaction costs, imperfect information, and bounded rationality influence the rulemaking process (Homann and Kirchner 1995; Furubotn and Richter 2005) and even optimal solutions to regulatory problems can become unstable and suboptimal over time.", "citation": "Wulf A. Kaal, Evolution of Law Dynamic Regulation in a New Institutional Economics Framework (2013). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2267560" }, { "id": "kaal:claim:2267560-020", "url": "https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/2267560-020", "claim": "In the conventional NIE learning process, the requirements for rules and their adaptability to future states become clear only after stable and presumptively optimal rules have already emerged as suboptimal, so anticipation of future developments plays no role and learning is confined to learning from mistakes.", "specific_name": "retrospective-only learning in rulemaking", "conditions": [ "conventional, non-dynamic learning process" ], "source": "Evolution of Law Dynamic Regulation in a New Institutional Economics Framework", "year": "2013", "quote": "Anticipation of future developments does not play a role in this learning process.", "citation": "Wulf A. Kaal, Evolution of Law Dynamic Regulation in a New Institutional Economics Framework (2013). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2267560" }, { "id": "kaal:claim:2267560-035", "url": "https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/2267560-035", "claim": "The learning process in incomplete contract theory can be improved because experimentation with different rules, rule revision, and additional rulemaking create significant transaction costs, and postponing rulemaking until sufficient information is available may not always be possible or desirable.", "specific_name": "cost and infeasibility of postponed rulemaking", "conditions": [], "source": "Evolution of Law Dynamic Regulation in a New Institutional Economics Framework", "year": "2013", "quote": "Experimentation with different rules, rule revision, and additional rulemaking create significant transaction costs8 and postponing rulemaking until sufficient information is available may not always be possible or desirable.", "citation": "Wulf A. Kaal, Evolution of Law Dynamic Regulation in a New Institutional Economics Framework (2013). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2267560" }, { "id": "kaal:claim:kaal-2014-dynamicregulationviagove-005", "url": "https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/kaal-2014-dynamicregulationviagove-005", "claim": "Because transaction costs, imperfect information, and bounded rationality shape the rulemaking process, even solutions that are optimal at enactment become unstable and suboptimal over time.", "specific_name": "decay of presumptively optimal rules", "conditions": [ "rules are enacted as stable and presumptively optimal" ], "source": "Dynamic Regulation via Governmental Contracts", "year": "2014", "quote": "NIE recognizes that transaction costs, imperfect infor- mation, and bounded rationality impact the rulemaking process, rendering even optimal solutions to regulatory problems unstable and suboptimal over time", "citation": "Kaal, Dynamic Regulation via Governmental Contracts (2014)" }, { "id": "kaal:claim:kaal-2014-dynamicregulationviagove-009", "url": "https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/kaal-2014-dynamicregulationviagove-009", "claim": "Experimentation with different rules under the current framework of stable rulemaking carries substantial costs of rule revision and enactment, and there is evidence that this framework does not protect against systemic shocks and financial crises.", "specific_name": "costly and ineffective ex post experimentation", "conditions": [ "current framework of stable and presumptively optimal rules" ], "source": "Dynamic Regulation via Governmental Contracts", "year": "2014", "quote": "The costs of rule revision, rule enactment, and exper- imentation in the current framework of stable rulemaking are substantial, especially because there is some evidence25 that the existing rulemaking framework does not protect against systemic shocks and financial crises.", "citation": "Kaal, Dynamic Regulation via Governmental Contracts (2014)" }, { "id": "kaal:claim:kaal-2014-dynamicregulationviagove-013", "url": "https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/kaal-2014-dynamicregulationviagove-013", "claim": "The existing framework of stable and presumptively optimal rules is self reinforcing: it perpetuates rulemaking processes that produce stable presumptively optimal rules and therefore keeps generating costly rule revision, updating, and revocation.", "specific_name": "self reinforcing stable rule framework", "conditions": [], "source": "Dynamic Regulation via Governmental Contracts", "year": "2014", "quote": "The existing framework for stable and presumptively optimal rules reinforces rulemaking processes that perpet- uate stable and presumptively optimal rules, necessitating costly rule revision, updating, and revocation.", "citation": "Kaal, Dynamic Regulation via Governmental Contracts (2014)" }, { "id": "kaal:claim:kaal-2014-dynamicregulationviagove-016", "url": "https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/kaal-2014-dynamicregulationviagove-016", "claim": "The shortcomings of the existing rulemaking framework cannot be adequately addressed from within that framework, because its structure rests on the assumption that rules ought to be stable and presumptively optimal.", "specific_name": "shortcomings are internal to the framework", "conditions": [], "source": "Dynamic Regulation via Governmental Contracts", "year": "2014", "quote": "They are unlikely to be adequately addressed within the existing institutional infrastructure be- cause the structure of the existing regulatory framework is based on the as- sumption that rules ought to be stable and presumptively optimal to address a given regulatory problem.", "citation": "Kaal, Dynamic Regulation via Governmental Contracts (2014)" }, { "id": "kaal:claim:kaal-2014-dynamicregulationviagove-021", "url": "https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/kaal-2014-dynamicregulationviagove-021", "claim": "Traditional forward looking corporate governance systems adopt backward looking perspectives only after stable and optimal rules have emerged as suboptimal and require replacement or amendment.", "specific_name": "reactive backward looking correction", "conditions": [ "traditional stable and presumptively optimal rulemaking infrastructure" ], "source": "Dynamic Regulation via Governmental Contracts", "year": "2014", "quote": "Traditional forward-looking corporate governance systems may take backward-looking perspectives if and when stable and optimal rules emerge as suboptimal, requiring replacement and/or amendment of existing regulatory solutions.", "citation": "Kaal, Dynamic Regulation via Governmental Contracts (2014)" }, { "id": "kaal:claim:2831040-002", "url": "https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/2831040-002", "claim": "Although the extent and causes of rulemaking ossification remain empirically uncertain, increased legal and evidentiary burdens on regulatory authorities are the consensus explanation for the slowdown in agency rulemaking.", "specific_name": "rulemaking ossification", "conditions": [ "United States federal and state agency rulemaking" ], "source": "Dynamic Regulation for Innovation", "year": "2016", "quote": "some consensus exists that the legal and evidentiary burdens placed on regulatory authorities have increased substantially over time, precipitating the remarkable slowdown in rulemaking by regulatory agencies", "citation": "Wulf A. Kaal, Dynamic Regulation for Innovation (2016). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2831040" }, { "id": "kaal:claim:2831040-008", "url": "https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/2831040-008", "claim": "Rulemakers rely almost exclusively on stable and presumptively optimal rules meant to be permanent solutions, and that reliance ignores the ever changing rule environment driven by exponential growth in technology and innovation.", "specific_name": "stable rule bias", "conditions": [], "source": "Dynamic Regulation for Innovation", "year": "2016", "quote": "created to attain permanent solutions for perceived regulatory issues (Kaal 2014b) ignores the ever-changing environment for rules driven by the exponential growth of technology and the associated exponential growth of innovation", "citation": "Wulf A. Kaal, Dynamic Regulation for Innovation (2016). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2831040" }, { "id": "kaal:claim:2831040-010", "url": "https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/2831040-010", "claim": "An existing regulatory infrastructure built on stable and presumptively optimal rules is largely incapable of addressing the ever increasing unknown future contingencies associated with disruptive innovation.", "specific_name": "contingency blindness of stable rules", "conditions": [ "disruptive innovation" ], "source": "Dynamic Regulation for Innovation", "year": "2016", "quote": "the existing regulatory infrastructure with stable and presumptively optimal rules is largely incapable of addressing the ever-increasing unknown future contingencies associated with disruptive innovation", "citation": "Wulf A. Kaal, Dynamic Regulation for Innovation (2016). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2831040" }, { "id": "kaal:claim:2831040-017", "url": "https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/2831040-017", "claim": "The doctrine of stare decisis and judicial adherence to precedent decided decades or centuries earlier mean the court system is structurally a suspension system for rapid change, built to supply stability and predictability rather than speed.", "specific_name": "courts as suspension system for change", "conditions": [ "common law court systems bound by precedent" ], "source": "Dynamic Regulation for Innovation", "year": "2016", "quote": "The doctrine of stare decisis and the courts' adherence to and application of precedent decided decades or centuries earlier illustrate that the court system is actually structured as a suspension system for rapid change in order to provide stability and predictability.", "citation": "Wulf A. Kaal, Dynamic Regulation for Innovation (2016). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2831040" }, { "id": "kaal:claim:2831040-036", "url": "https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/2831040-036", "claim": "Rules operate as a feedback effect on the rulemaking process itself: rules with suboptimal characteristics result from institutional arrangements and then reinforce those suboptimal arrangements, and stable presumptively optimal rules reinforce an institutional structure that perpetuates stability in rules.", "specific_name": "self reinforcing suboptimal rulemaking", "conditions": [], "source": "Dynamic Regulation for Innovation", "year": "2016", "quote": "Existing rules create a feedback effect for the rulemaking process itself. Rules with suboptimal characteristics are the results of institutional arrangements and reinforce suboptimal institutional arrangements and rulemaking processes.", "citation": "Wulf A. Kaal, Dynamic Regulation for Innovation (2016). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2831040" }, { "id": "kaal:claim:2808132-022", "url": "https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/2808132-022", "claim": "Formal rulemaking is simply too time-consuming for an environment of disruptive innovation; the speed of product innovation alone makes formal rulemaking in the existing infrastructure unworkable.", "specific_name": "Rulemaking ossification", "conditions": [ "formal and notice and comment rulemaking in the existing regulatory infrastructure", "rapid product innovation cycles" ], "source": "How to Regulate Disruptive Innovation - From Facts to Data", "year": "2016", "quote": "speed of product innovation alone makes formal rulemaking in the existing regulatory infrastructure challenging. Formal rulemaking is simply too time-consuming.89 The speed of product innovation makes it possible to bring a new product to market while formal", "citation": "Wulf A. Kaal, Erik P.M. Vermeulen, How to Regulate Disruptive Innovation - From Facts to Data (2016). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2808132" }, { "id": "kaal:claim:2808132-023", "url": "https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/2808132-023", "claim": "Because formal rulemaking takes months and often years, regulators are still processing the previous product launch while new products reach the market, and new regulations pertaining to an innovative product can be obsolete before they are finalized.", "specific_name": "Rule obsolescence before enactment", "conditions": [ "multi-month or multi-year regulatory procedures", "fast product launch cycles" ], "source": "How to Regulate Disruptive Innovation - From Facts to Data", "year": "2016", "quote": "rulemaking in the existing regulatory infrastructure, taking months and often years of regulatory procedure, is still dealing with the last product launch. New regulations pertaining to an innovative product could be obsolete before they are finalized.90", "citation": "Wulf A. Kaal, Erik P.M. Vermeulen, How to Regulate Disruptive Innovation - From Facts to Data (2016). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2808132" }, { "id": "kaal:claim:2808132-026", "url": "https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/2808132-026", "claim": "Despite their insufficient anticipatory capabilities and known downsides, stable and presumptively optimal rules remain the uniform response to perceived regulatory issues.", "specific_name": "Uniform stable-rule response", "conditions": [ "existing regulatory framework" ], "source": "How to Regulate Disruptive Innovation - From Facts to Data", "year": "2016", "quote": "amendments, and repeals to address such shortcomings. Despite its insufficient anticipatory capabilities and all the downsides that are associated with it, stable and presumptively optimal rules remain the uniform response to perceived regulatory issues.94", "citation": "Wulf A. Kaal, Erik P.M. Vermeulen, How to Regulate Disruptive Innovation - From Facts to Data (2016). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2808132" }, { "id": "kaal:claim:2808132-027", "url": "https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/2808132-027", "claim": "The current process of rule revisions, amendments, and repeals used to correct the inevitable shortcomings of stable rules is costly and time-consuming, and in the authors' estimation it cannot keep track of future innovations and their corresponding regulatory needs.", "specific_name": "Revision treadmill", "conditions": [ "existing regulatory framework relying on ex post rule revision", "accelerating pace of innovation" ], "source": "How to Regulate Disruptive Innovation - From Facts to Data", "year": "2016", "quote": "important for rulemaking. The current process of rule revisions, amendments, and repeals to address inevitable shortcomings of stable rules is costly, time-consuming, and cannot, in our estimation, keep track of future innovations and corresponding regulatory needs.", "citation": "Wulf A. Kaal, Erik P.M. Vermeulen, How to Regulate Disruptive Innovation - From Facts to Data (2016). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2808132" }, { "id": "kaal:claim:2808132-028", "url": "https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/2808132-028", "claim": "The collective action problem of rulemaking, the problems of trial-and-error rulemaking, and the problems of regulatory cycles derive largely from the nature of stable and presumptively optimal rules themselves, not from unrelated institutional defects.", "specific_name": "Stable rules as root cause", "conditions": [ "regulatory regimes whose outcomes are stable rather than adaptive" ], "source": "How to Regulate Disruptive Innovation - From Facts to Data", "year": "2016", "quote": "problems associated with trial-and-error rulemaking, and problems associated with regulatory cycles derive largely from the nature of stable and presumptively optimal rules.108 Rulemaking with dynamic elements increases the use of institution-specific,", "citation": "Wulf A. Kaal, Erik P.M. Vermeulen, How to Regulate Disruptive Innovation - From Facts to Data (2016). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2808132" }, { "id": "kaal:claim:2740477-001", "url": "https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/2740477-001", "claim": "Ex post trial and error rulemaking built on stable and presumptively optimal rules produces suboptimal regulatory outcomes that are no longer sustainable once disruptive innovation grows exponentially.", "specific_name": "Unsustainable ex post trial and error rulemaking", "conditions": [ "environment of exponential disruptive innovation", "existing regulatory framework of stable rules" ], "source": "Venture Capital as Dynamic Regulation of Disruptive Innovation", "year": "2016", "quote": "The ex-post trial-and-error-rulemaking with stable and presumptively optimal rules7 in the existing regulatory framework8 often produces suboptimal regulatory outcomes that are no longer sustainable in an environment of exponential disruptive innovation.", "citation": "Wulf A. Kaal, Erik P.M. Vermeulen, Venture Capital as Dynamic Regulation of Disruptive Innovation (2016). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2740477" }, { "id": "kaal:claim:2740477-008", "url": "https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/2740477-008", "claim": "Disruptive innovative technology frequently does not fit the legal categories created by recalcitrant regulatory structures, so the classification problem itself is a source of regulatory failure.", "specific_name": "Category mismatch between technology and law", "conditions": [], "source": "Venture Capital as Dynamic Regulation of Disruptive Innovation", "year": "2016", "quote": "Disruptive innovative technology often does not fit into existing legal categories created by recalcitrant regulatory structures.", "citation": "Wulf A. Kaal, Erik P.M. Vermeulen, Venture Capital as Dynamic Regulation of Disruptive Innovation (2016). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2740477" }, { "id": "kaal:claim:2740477-018", "url": "https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/2740477-018", "claim": "If rulemakers cannot adequately protect their constituents through stable and presumptively optimal rules, then regulatory supplements that facilitate anticipatory rulemaking are justified.", "specific_name": "Governance adjustment overload", "conditions": [ "exponential growth of technology and innovation", "rulemakers unable to protect constituents with stable rules" ], "source": "Venture Capital as Dynamic Regulation of Disruptive Innovation", "year": "2016", "quote": "making it increasingly less likely that rulemakers will be able to effectively protect the public via stable and presumptively optimal rules. If rulemakers cannot adequately protect their constituents, regulatory supplements facilitating anticipatory rulemaking may be justified.", "citation": "Wulf A. Kaal, Erik P.M. Vermeulen, Venture Capital as Dynamic Regulation of Disruptive Innovation (2016). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2740477" }, { "id": "kaal:claim:2740477-021", "url": "https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/2740477-021", "claim": "New regulations aimed at an innovative product can be obsolete before they are finalized.", "specific_name": "Rules obsolete on arrival", "conditions": [ "formal rulemaking timelines of months to years" ], "source": "Venture Capital as Dynamic Regulation of Disruptive Innovation", "year": "2016", "quote": "New regulations pertaining to an innovative product could be obsolete before they are finalized.", "citation": "Wulf A. Kaal, Erik P.M. Vermeulen, Venture Capital as Dynamic Regulation of Disruptive Innovation (2016). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2740477" }, { "id": "kaal:claim:2740477-024", "url": "https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/2740477-024", "claim": "Accepting suboptimal rules temporarily buys rule certainty and predictability but guarantees a later cycle of revision, amendment, and repeal, so rulemakers trade short term certainty for a costly correction process.", "specific_name": "Deferred suboptimality correction cycle", "conditions": [ "rulemakers knowingly accept suboptimalities tied to unknown future contingencies" ], "source": "Venture Capital as Dynamic Regulation of Disruptive Innovation", "year": "2016", "quote": "Temporary acceptance of suboptimal rules increases temporary rule certainty and predictability, but it also precipitates the inevitable need for rule revision, amendments, and repeals", "citation": "Wulf A. Kaal, Erik P.M. Vermeulen, Venture Capital as Dynamic Regulation of Disruptive Innovation (2016). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2740477" }, { "id": "kaal:claim:2740477-025", "url": "https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/2740477-025", "claim": "The current process of rule revisions, amendments, and repeals used to fix the inevitable shortcomings of stable rules is costly, time consuming, and in the authors' estimation cannot keep track of future innovations and the regulatory needs they create.", "specific_name": "Revision process cannot track innovation", "conditions": [], "source": "Venture Capital as Dynamic Regulation of Disruptive Innovation", "year": "2016", "quote": "The current process of rule revisions, amendments, and repeals to address inevitable shortcomings of stable rules is costly, time-consuming, and cannot in our estimation keep track of future innovations and corresponding regulatory needs.", "citation": "Wulf A. Kaal, Erik P.M. Vermeulen, Venture Capital as Dynamic Regulation of Disruptive Innovation (2016). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2740477" }, { "id": "kaal:claim:2740477-032", "url": "https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/2740477-032", "claim": "The existing framework for optimal rules is self reinforcing: it perpetuates rulemaking processes that produce more optimal rules requiring costly revision, updating, and revocation, so suboptimal rules and suboptimal processes reproduce each other.", "specific_name": "Self reinforcing suboptimal rulemaking loop", "conditions": [], "source": "Venture Capital as Dynamic Regulation of Disruptive Innovation", "year": "2016", "quote": "The existing regulatory framework for optimal rules reinforces rulemaking processes that perpetuate optimal rules, necessitating costly rule revision, updating, and revocation.", "citation": "Wulf A. Kaal, Erik P.M. Vermeulen, Venture Capital as Dynamic Regulation of Disruptive Innovation (2016). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2740477" }, { "id": "kaal:claim:2957645-003", "url": "https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/2957645-003", "claim": "Formal rulemaking in the existing regulatory infrastructure is too time consuming, and the speed of product innovation frequently renders regulations pertaining to an innovative product obsolete before those regulations are even finalized.", "specific_name": "Rules obsolete before finalization", "conditions": [ "environments of exponential or rapid product innovation", "formal notice and comment style rulemaking" ], "source": "Dynamic Regulation via Contingent Capital", "year": "2017", "quote": "Formal rulemaking in the existing regulatory infrastructure is overly time-consuming7 and the speed of product innovation often makes regulations pertaining to an innovative product obsolete before such regulations are finalized.8", "citation": "Kaal, Dynamic Regulation via Contingent Capital (2017). SSRN: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2957645" }, { "id": "kaal:claim:2957645-004", "url": "https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/2957645-004", "claim": "The existing regulatory infrastructure, resting on stable and presumptively optimal rules, is largely incapable of addressing the unknown future contingencies associated with disruptive innovation.", "specific_name": "Stable rules cannot absorb unknown future contingencies", "conditions": [ "regulation confronting disruptive innovation", "reliance on stable and presumptively optimal rules" ], "source": "Dynamic Regulation via Contingent Capital", "year": "2017", "quote": "Finally, the existing regulatory infrastructure, with stable and presumptively optimal rules, is largely incapable of addressing the unknown future contingencies associated with disruptive innovation.", "citation": "Kaal, Dynamic Regulation via Contingent Capital (2017). SSRN: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2957645" }, { "id": "kaal:claim:2922176-025", "url": "https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/2922176-025", "claim": "Even after recent reforms, the corporate governance framework remains framed in terms of hierarchy, which is why it fits poorly with looser and unmediated stakeholder relationships.", "specific_name": "persistent hierarchy framing", "conditions": [ "applies to the reform wave through 2017" ], "source": "The ‘Unmediated’ and ‘Tech-Driven’ Corporate Governance of Today's Winning Companies", "year": "2017", "quote": "The corporate governance framework is still framed in terms of hierarchy, even after recent reforms.", "citation": "Mark Fenwick, Wulf A. Kaal, Erik P. M. Vermeulen, The ‘Unmediated’ and ‘Tech-Driven’ Corporate Governance of Today's Winning Companies (2017). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2922176" }, { "id": "kaal:claim:3266953-002", "url": "https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3266953-002", "claim": "Adding more regulations, processes and procedures cannot restore confidence in institutions, because the traditional trust and cohesion mechanisms have already reached their limits.", "specific_name": "exhausted regulatory remedy", "conditions": [ "attempts to restore institutionalized trust" ], "source": "Reputation Protocol for the Internet of Trust - Conceptual Whitepaper", "year": "2018", "quote": "To restore confidence in the \"old world\", efforts have tended to focus on introducing and implementing more regulations, processes, and procedures. Yet, the traditional trust and cohesion mechanisms have reached their limits.", "citation": "Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Gopinath Sivalingam, Reputation Protocol for the Internet of Trust - Conceptual Whitepaper (2018). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3266953" }, { "id": "kaal:claim:3227933-026", "url": "https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3227933-026", "claim": "A particular problem with old world centralized, hierarchical organizations is that their decision-making processes become slow, cumbersome and costly, which is a competitive problem for incumbents in a fast-paced consumer-driven economy.", "specific_name": "Slow centralized decision-making", "conditions": [ "fast-paced, consumer-driven economy" ], "source": "Why 'Blockchain' Will Disrupt Corporate Organizations", "year": "2018", "quote": "A particular problem with \"old world\" centralized, hierarchical organizations is that decision-making processes can become slow, cumbersome and costly.", "citation": "Mark Fenwick, Wulf A. Kaal, Erik P.M. Vermeulen, Why 'Blockchain' Will Disrupt Corporate Organizations (2018). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3227933" }, { "id": "kaal:claim:3441904-006", "url": "https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3441904-006", "claim": "Without evolutionary governance upgrades to blockchain protocols, the cost reduction that blockchain brings to the agency relationship cannot be maintained.", "specific_name": "unmaintained-cost-reduction", "conditions": [ "a changing environment for blockchain based coded guarantees" ], "source": "Blockchain-Based Corporate Governance", "year": "2019", "quote": "Without evolutionary governance upgrades the cost reduction for the agency relationship cannot be maintained.", "citation": "Wulf A. Kaal, Blockchain-Based Corporate Governance (2019). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3441904" }, { "id": "kaal:claim:3441904-029", "url": "https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3441904-029", "claim": "Facts based, ex post, trial and error rulemaking with stable and presumptively optimal rules is incompatible with the needs of decentralized systems, because knowledge filters in at the edges of such systems and cannot be encapsulated in a timely fashion.", "specific_name": "static-rulemaking-mismatch", "conditions": [ "decentralized smart contracting and DAO environments" ], "source": "Blockchain-Based Corporate Governance", "year": "2019", "quote": "Centralized governance via stable and presumptively optimal rules in an environment of decentralized smart contracting and DAOs further exacerbates the shortcomings of stable and presumptively optimal rules in centralized structures.", "citation": "Wulf A. Kaal, Blockchain-Based Corporate Governance (2019). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3441904" }, { "id": "kaal:claim:3441904-033", "url": "https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3441904-033", "claim": "Rulemaking via code is not itself a cure for static regulation, because coded solutions are subject to natural flaws such as bugs and cannot evolutionarily change protocols, making them another stable and presumptively optimal attempt.", "specific_name": "static-code-rules", "conditions": [ "decentralized rulemaking via code without dynamic elements" ], "source": "Blockchain-Based Corporate Governance", "year": "2019", "quote": "On the other hand, coded solutions are subject to natural flaws (bugs) and cannot evolutionarily change protocols.", "citation": "Wulf A. Kaal, Blockchain-Based Corporate Governance (2019). 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SSRN: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3709041" }, { "id": "kaal:claim:3709041-022", "url": "https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3709041-022", "claim": "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.", "specific_name": "institutional slowness of representative democracy", "conditions": [ "describes representative democracies as of the early 2020s" ], "source": "Blockchain Technology for Good", "year": "2020", "quote": "In the early 2020s, representative democracies were largely slow and inflexible because of their constitutional and institutional infrastructure and their respective legal systems.", "citation": "Kaal, Blockchain Technology for Good (2020). SSRN: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3709041" }, { "id": "kaal:claim:3652481-026", "url": "https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3652481-026", "claim": "Stable and presumptively optimal static or constitutional rules for DAO governance typically enable gaming and arbitrage opportunities, because rational opportunistic parties will circumvent complex static rules to increase their share of power and profit.", "specific_name": "static rule gaming", "conditions": [ "the system is open and democratic", "the rule set is static and complex" ], "source": "Decentralized Autonomous Organizations – Internal Governance and External Legal Design", "year": "2020", "quote": "Stable and presumptively optimal static and/or constitutional rules for DAO governance therefore typically enable gaming and arbitrage opportunities.", "citation": "Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralized Autonomous Organizations – Internal Governance and External Legal Design (2020). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3652481" }, { "id": "kaal:claim:3652481-028", "url": "https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3652481-028", "claim": "Presumptively stable ex ante majoritarian rules are flawed because they are inevitably suboptimal in an environment that has evolved away from the conditions that produced the rule.", "specific_name": "ex ante rule obsolescence", "conditions": [], "source": "Decentralized Autonomous Organizations – Internal Governance and External Legal Design", "year": "2020", "quote": "Presumptively stable ex-ante majoritarian rules are flawed because they are inevitably suboptimal in an ever-changing environment that evolves from the environment that precipitated the promulgation of the ex-ante majoritarian rule.", "citation": "Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralized Autonomous Organizations – Internal Governance and External Legal Design (2020). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3652481" }, { "id": "kaal:claim:3799320-002", "url": "https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3799320-002", "claim": "Decentralized governance must be dynamic and evolutionary, otherwise the system becomes centralized and brittle over time; most DAOs fail to accomplish this.", "specific_name": "Static governance ossification", "conditions": [ "governance that must persist over time", "systems relying on information from the edges" ], "source": "A Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) of DAOs", "year": "2021", "quote": "Decentralized governance has to be dynamic and evolutionary in order to avoid for the system to become, over time, centralized and brittle. Most DAOs fail to accomplish this.", "citation": "Wulf A. Kaal, A Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) of DAOs (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3799320" }, { "id": "kaal:claim:3782203-001", "url": "https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3782203-001", "claim": "Any set process or set of rules that can ever be designed will ultimately fail to secure a network for all time, so no static rule set can serve as the permanent foundation of a DAO.", "specific_name": "static-rule-set-decay", "conditions": [ "decentralized networks", "open global membership", "anonymous participation" ], "source": "A Technical Perspective on Decentralization", "year": "2021", "quote": "A core precept for the creation of DAOs is the recognition that any set process or set of rules that can ever be designed will ultimately fail to secure a network for all time.", "citation": "Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, A Technical Perspective on Decentralization (2021). 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SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782203" }, { "id": "kaal:claim:3782203-021", "url": "https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3782203-021", "claim": "Any set of rules that can be designed will need amendment as the environment changes, and a network that relies eternally on a static rule set will inevitably become corrupt or irrelevant.", "specific_name": "ossified-protocol", "conditions": [ "open global decentralized networks", "anonymous membership", "changing environments" ], "source": "A Technical Perspective on Decentralization", "year": "2021", "quote": "Any set of rules that can ever be designed will always need to be amended in the future as the environment changes, to keep the network running healthily. We cannot rely eternally on a static set of rules, or else the system will inevitably become corrupt or irrelevant.", "citation": "Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, A Technical Perspective on Decentralization (2021). 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SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782214" }, { "id": "kaal:claim:3782214-020", "url": "https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3782214-020", "claim": "The very explicit rules that unify a diverse group destabilize it over the longer term, because internal corruption and external change render a fixed rule structure ineffective or inefficient.", "specific_name": "rule rigidity decay", "conditions": [ "long time horizons", "changing market conditions" ], "source": "Decentralized Governance", "year": "2021", "quote": "However, these unifying rules further destabilize the group in the long-term, be- cause of internal corruption and external changes that make the rule structure inef- fective or inefficient.", "citation": "Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralized Governance (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782214" }, { "id": "kaal:claim:3782193-017", "url": "https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3782193-017", "claim": "The more effective a centralized architecture becomes at solving its target problem, the more rigid and unforgiving it becomes; rigid architectures are unstable and fail when met with novel challenges, so more decentralized organizations are more stable.", "specific_name": "Specialization brittleness", "conditions": [ "when the organization encounters challenges different from the one it was designed for" ], "source": "Historical Sketches of Centralization vs. Decentralization", "year": "2021", "quote": "But rigid architectures are unstable and fail when met with novel challenges. More de- centralized organizations are more stable.", "citation": "Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Historical Sketches of Centralization vs. Decentralization (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782193" }, { "id": "kaal:claim:3782193-018", "url": "https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3782193-018", "claim": "The centralized hierarchy built by the Chinese Communist Revolution was extremely successful at the military goal it was designed for, but once the military threat was gone it failed completely at solving other important problems, producing catastrophic reforms such as the Cultural Revolution and the Great Leap Forward.", "specific_name": "Purpose-built hierarchy outliving its purpose", "conditions": [ "China from 1949 until Mao Zedong's death in 1976" ], "source": "Historical Sketches of Centralization vs. Decentralization", "year": "2021", "quote": "This centralized hierarchy was extremely successful at the military goal it was designed for, but completely failed at solving other important problems once the military threat was gone.", "citation": "Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. 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SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3981021" }, { "id": "kaal:claim:3808867-010", "url": "https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3808867-010", "claim": "Legally created trust is limited because it is only indirectly democratically legitimized, and is therefore arbitrary, inflexible, untimely, resistant to change, dependent on fallible human centric decision processes, and confined to human speed.", "specific_name": "Limits of legally created trust", "conditions": [ "trust created by legal guarantees and judicial enforcement in capitalist and socialist systems" ], "source": "How Decentralized Systems Can Upgrade AI", "year": "2021", "quote": "Legally created trust is often limited as it can be arbitrary because it is only indirectly democratically legitimized, inflexible, untimely, resistant to change, with fallible human-centric decision processes, and human speed.", "citation": "Wulf A. Kaal, How Decentralized Systems Can Upgrade AI (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3808867" }, { "id": "kaal:claim:3782192-004", "url": "https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3782192-004", "claim": "Centralization is not the optimal organizational structure under highly dynamic conditions; the very features that make centralized hierarchies efficient become their greatest weaknesses when conditions change.", "specific_name": "Strengths-become-weaknesses under dynamism", "conditions": [ "highly dynamic or rapidly changing environments" ], "source": "Introduction to Decentralization", "year": "2021", "quote": "But centralization is not the optimal organizational structure under highly dynamic conditions. The usual strengths of centralized hierarchies become their greatest weaknesses.", "citation": "Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Introduction to Decentralization (2021). 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SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782192" }, { "id": "kaal:claim:3782192-016", "url": "https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3782192-016", "claim": "No static set of logical rules can ever succeed in preventing corruption, which is the ultimate problem with relying on letter of the law governance instead of spirit of the law governance.", "specific_name": "Static rules cannot prevent corruption", "conditions": [ "any static, formally specified rule set" ], "source": "Introduction to Decentralization", "year": "2021", "quote": "The ultimate problem with relying on letter-of-the-law governance over spirit-of-the- law governance is that no static set of logical rules can ever succeed in preventing corruption.", "citation": "Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Introduction to Decentralization (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782192" }, { "id": "kaal:claim:3782192-021", "url": "https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3782192-021", "claim": "Rigidity generates corruption: because a rigid organization ignores new information incompatible with its structure, the unexploited value creates an opportunity for an individual to capture it for personal advantage rather than for the group.", "specific_name": "Rigidity breeding private capture of ignored opportunity", "conditions": [ "rigid organizations facing a changing environment" ], "source": "Introduction to Decentralization", "year": "2021", "quote": "And so, an opportunity is born for an individual to exploit this opportunity for personal advantage since the organization was too rigid to take advantage of the opportunity collectively in pursuit of their shared goals.", "citation": "Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Introduction to Decentralization (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782192" }, { "id": "kaal:claim:3782192-022", "url": "https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3782192-022", "claim": "Even where corruption is avoided, rigidity still leads centralized organizations to catastrophic ends, because failures push members to cling more faithfully to the rules that saved them in the past, making the system still more rigid and brittle.", "specific_name": "Self-reinforcing rigidity spiral", "conditions": [ "centralized organizations under repeated external shocks" ], "source": "Introduction to Decentralization", "year": "2021", "quote": "Even if corruption can be avoided in the beginning, the rigidity still leads centralized organizations to cata- strophic ends, as failures naturally push members to cling ever more faithfully to the rules that have saved them in the past, making the system even more rigid and brit- tle.", "citation": "Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Introduction to Decentralization (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782192" }, { "id": "kaal:claim:3782192-031", "url": "https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3782192-031", "claim": "Western democracies still run on structures developed decades or centuries ago and have no formal interaction with the new data stream produced by modern information technology.", "specific_name": "Institutional lag of democratic structures", "conditions": [ "contemporary Western democracies" ], "source": "Introduction to Decentralization", "year": "2021", "quote": "Western democracies are still using the structures developed decades or centuries ago, and lack any formal interaction with this new data stream.", "citation": "Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Introduction to Decentralization (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782192" }, { "id": "kaal:claim:3782220-021", "url": "https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3782220-021", "claim": "Transcendental values must remain transcendental, because once formalized too rigorously they become more manipulable: a clearly specified definition becomes a focal point for competition instead of a unifying principle.", "specific_name": "formalization makes values manipulable", "conditions": [ "values that have been formalized explicitly" ], "source": "The Importance of Transcendental Unifying Values for Decentralization", "year": "2021", "quote": "they need to remain transcendental. Once they are formalized too rigorously, they become more manipulable. For example, once the definition of ne- cessity versus non-essential is specified clearly, it becomes a focal point for competi- tion, instead of a unifying principle", "citation": "Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, The Importance of Transcendental Unifying Values for Decentralization (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782220" }, { "id": "kaal:claim:4796714-001", "url": "https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/4796714-001", "claim": "Traditional AI governance frameworks fail because they rely on static, predefined rules that cannot adapt quickly enough to the pace of AI development or to the nuanced challenges AI presents.", "specific_name": "static rule obsolescence", "conditions": [ "applies to conventional rule based governance regimes", "holds where AI capability changes faster than the rule revision cycle" ], "source": "AI Governance", "year": "2024", "quote": "Traditional governance approaches often rely on static, predefined rules that may not adapt quickly enough to the pace of AI development or the nuanced challenges it presents.", "citation": "Wulf A. Kaal, AI Governance (2024). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4796714" }, { "id": "kaal:claim:4957318-010", "url": "https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/4957318-010", "claim": "Sunset provisions fail on their own terms when the mandated reviews are not conducted thoroughly, because laws then either expire or continue without proper scrutiny, which defeats the purpose of the mechanism.", "specific_name": "hollow-sunset-review", "conditions": [ "where legislative review capacity or attention is insufficient" ], "source": "The Future of Law - Dynamic Web3 Governance", "year": "2024", "quote": "Moreover, if the necessary reviews are not conducted thoroughly, the effectiveness of sunset provisions is undermined, and laws may expire or continue without proper scrutiny, defeating the intended purpose of these mechanisms.", "citation": "Wulf A. Kaal, The Future of Law - Dynamic Web3 Governance (2024). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4957318" }, { "id": "kaal:claim:4957318-015", "url": "https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/4957318-015", "claim": "Deadline pressure inverts the intended effect of sunset provisions: the need to reassess and renew by a fixed date produces hasty decisions or the continuation of flawed policies because there is insufficient time for proper evaluation.", "specific_name": "deadline-driven-renewal", "conditions": [ "where expiration dates arrive faster than deliberative review can be completed" ], "source": "The Future of Law - Dynamic Web3 Governance", "year": "2024", "quote": "The requirement to reassess and potentially renew laws by a certain deadline may result in hasty decision-making or the continuation of flawed policies due to a lack of time for proper evaluation.", "citation": "Wulf A. Kaal, The Future of Law - Dynamic Web3 Governance (2024). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4957318" }, { "id": "kaal:claim:4957318-016", "url": "https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/4957318-016", "claim": "Sunset provisions in tax law do not deliver fiscal restraint, because shifting baselines, exceptions to budget rules, and the difficulty of accurately costing temporary legislation undermine their theoretical benefits.", "specific_name": "tax-sunset-fiscal-illusion", "conditions": [ "tax legislation subject to budget scoring rules" ], "source": "The Future of Law - Dynamic Web3 Governance", "year": "2024", "quote": "Complexities such as shifting baselines, exceptions to budget rules, and the challenges of accurately assessing the costs of temporary legislation undermine the theoretical benefits of sunset provisions in promoting fiscal restraint.", "citation": "Wulf A. Kaal, The Future of Law - Dynamic Web3 Governance (2024). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4957318" }, { "id": "kaal:claim:4957318-019", "url": "https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/4957318-019", "claim": "Legal garbage collection is blocked by politics rather than by analysis: outdated or redundant laws remain contentious when they carry symbolic importance for particular constituencies or when repeal would be read as weakening the regulatory framework.", "specific_name": "symbolic-law-repeal-resistance", "conditions": [ "statutes with symbolic or ideological significance", "where repeal is publicly visible" ], "source": "The Future of Law - Dynamic Web3 Governance", "year": "2024", "quote": "Laws, even those considered outdated or redundant, can be politically contentious, particularly when they hold symbolic importance to specific constituencies or when their removal might be perceived as weakening the regulatory framework.", "citation": "Wulf A. Kaal, The Future of Law - Dynamic Web3 Governance (2024). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4957318" }, { "id": "kaal:claim:4957318-020", "url": "https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/4957318-020", "claim": "Determining genuine obsolescence is hard because statutes are interconnected: an apparently redundant law may be a foundational element of another statute or regulatory framework, so repeal produces a ripple effect through the broader legal ecosystem.", "specific_name": "statutory-interdependence-ripple", "conditions": [ "dense statutory systems with cross referencing provisions" ], "source": "The Future of Law - Dynamic Web3 Governance", "year": "2024", "quote": "For instance, a seemingly redundant law may still serve as a foundational element for another statute or regulatory framework, creating a ripple effect if repealed.", "citation": "Wulf A. Kaal, The Future of Law - Dynamic Web3 Governance (2024). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4957318" }, { "id": "kaal:claim:4957318-023", "url": "https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/4957318-023", "claim": "Legal garbage collection faces an unavoidable tradeoff: streamlining the legal framework by removing outdated laws must be balanced against preserving legal history, since historical statutes record the evolution of legal principles and societal values.", "specific_name": "history-versus-cleanup-tradeoff", "conditions": [ "where removal is implemented as deletion rather than archiving" ], "source": "The Future of Law - Dynamic Web3 Governance", "year": "2024", "quote": "While the removal of outdated laws can help streamline the legal framework, there is also a need to balance this with the preservation of legal history.", "citation": "Wulf A. Kaal, The Future of Law - Dynamic Web3 Governance (2024). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4957318" }, { "id": "kaal:claim:5245185-023", "url": "https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/5245185-023", "claim": "Treating DAOs as monitoring entities assumes a static governance model that cannot keep pace with the rapid proliferation and sophistication of AI agents.", "specific_name": "static-dao-governance", "conditions": [ "conventional DAO governance applied to AI agent oversight" ], "source": "How can we Best Monitor AI Agents", "year": "2025", "quote": "The evolution of DAOs as monitoring entities assumes a static governance model117 incapable of keeping pace with the rapid proliferation and sophistication of AI agents.", "citation": "Wulf A. Kaal, How can we Best Monitor AI Agents (2025). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5245185" }, { "id": "kaal:claim:5886442-025", "url": "https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/5886442-025", "claim": "Policymakers who cling to Nashian ideals risk obsolescence, because the future demands governance that orchestrates agentic plenitude rather than governance that mitigates human imperfection.", "specific_name": "regulatory obsolescence", "conditions": [], "source": "The AI-to-AI Economy and the Collapse of Anthropocentric Economic Theory", "year": "2025", "quote": "Policymakers clinging to Nashian ideals risk obsolescence. The future demands governance that orchestrates agentic plenitude, not mitigates human imperfection.", "citation": "Wulf A. Kaal, The AI-to-AI Economy and the Collapse of Anthropocentric Economic Theory (2025). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5886442" }, { "id": "kaal:claim:5886442-028", "url": "https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/5886442-028", "claim": "The author concedes that the institutions he previously advocated, including dynamic regulation, contingent capital, agile sandboxes and Web3 reputation systems, become at best transitional bridges for the remaining human layer and at worst unnecessary frictions in a substrate that has engineered human frailties away.", "specific_name": "obsolescence of remedial institutions", "conditions": [ "applies once the agentic substrate dominates value creation" ], "source": "The AI-to-AI Economy and the Collapse of Anthropocentric Economic Theory", "year": "2025", "quote": "The institutions I once advocated to mitigate human frailties become, at best, transitional bridges for the remaining human layer and, at worst, unnecessary frictions in an economic substrate that has engineered those frailties away.", "citation": "Wulf A. Kaal, The AI-to-AI Economy and the Collapse of Anthropocentric Economic Theory (2025). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5886442" }, { "id": "kaal:claim:5886442-040", "url": "https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/5886442-040", "claim": "Continued reliance on scarcity based models, human centric institutions and twentieth century regulatory architectures risks not mere inefficiency but civilizational irrelevance, that is regulatory obsolescence, catastrophic inequality and digital feudalism in which abundance accrues to whoever controls the compute substrate.", "specific_name": "digital feudalism", "conditions": [ "applies to jurisdictions that retain scarcity based regulatory models as agentic production scales" ], "source": "The AI-to-AI Economy and the Collapse of Anthropocentric Economic Theory", "year": "2025", "quote": "Continued reliance on scarcity-based models, human-centric institutions, and twentieth-century regulatory architectures risks not mere inefficiency but civilizational irrelevance: regulatory obsolescence, catastrophic inequality, and the emergence of digital feudalism", "citation": "Wulf A. Kaal, The AI-to-AI Economy and the Collapse of Anthropocentric Economic Theory (2025). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5886442" }, { "id": "kaal:claim:5887242-002", "url": "https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/5887242-002", "claim": "Static codification is fundamentally incompatible with the governance needs of exponentially evolving digital technologies.", "specific_name": "chronic-obsolescence-of-static-codes", "conditions": [ "digital technology domains that advance on monthly cycles" ], "source": "The UDLC DAO Operationalizing a Continuously Evolving Universal Digital Law Codex Through Weighted", "year": "2025", "quote": "Static codification is fundamentally incompatible with the governance needs of exponentially evolving digital technologies.", "citation": "Wulf A. Kaal, The UDLC DAO Operationalizing a Continuously Evolving Universal Digital Law Codex Through Weighted (2025). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5887242" }, { "id": "kaal:claim:5887242-029", "url": "https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/5887242-029", "claim": "The UDLC's annual AI-assisted review and legal garbage collection obligations are core constitutional safeguards, not housekeeping, because ossification has historically doomed every large-scale private codification effort.", "specific_name": "ossification-of-large-scale-codifications", "conditions": [], "source": "The UDLC DAO Operationalizing a Continuously Evolving Universal Digital Law Codex Through Weighted", "year": "2025", "quote": "These are not mere housekeeping notes. They constitute core constitutional safeguards against the ossification that has historically doomed every large-scale private codification effort.", "citation": "Wulf A. Kaal, The UDLC DAO Operationalizing a Continuously Evolving Universal Digital Law Codex Through Weighted (2025). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5887242" }, { "id": "kaal:claim:5887242-031", "url": "https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/5887242-031", "claim": "The automated maintenance system is the UDLC's primary defense against the entropy that has rendered every previous attempt at universal private law either rigid or irrelevant.", "specific_name": "rigidity-or-irrelevance-dilemma", "conditions": [], "source": "The UDLC DAO Operationalizing a Continuously Evolving Universal Digital Law Codex Through Weighted", "year": "2025", "quote": "Far from a mere cleanup routine, the automated maintenance system constitutes the UDLC's primary defense against the entropy that has rendered every previous attempt at universal private law either rigid or irrelevant.", "citation": "Wulf A. Kaal, The UDLC DAO Operationalizing a Continuously Evolving Universal Digital Law Codex Through Weighted (2025). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5887242" }, { "id": "kaal:claim:5887242-037", "url": "https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/5887242-037", "claim": "Every large-scale legal order eventually accumulates dead-letter provisions, contradictory clauses and rules premised on obsolete technology; national codes require heroic political effort to prune, and private codes either never update or fork into competing versions.", "specific_name": "dead-letter-accumulation", "conditions": [], "source": "The UDLC DAO Operationalizing a Continuously Evolving Universal Digital Law Codex Through Weighted", "year": "2025", "quote": "Every large-scale legal order eventually accumulates dead-letter provisions, contradictory clauses, and legacy rules premised on obsolete technology. National codes require heroic political efforts to prune. Private codes either never update or fork into competing versions.", "citation": "Wulf A. Kaal, The UDLC DAO Operationalizing a Continuously Evolving Universal Digital Law Codex Through Weighted (2025). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5887242" }, { "id": "kaal:claim:5554218-029", "url": "https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/5554218-029", "claim": "Neither conflict of laws nor legal harmonization can supply a sustainable, systemic solution, because both approaches result in the fossilization of legal relationships.", "specific_name": "Fossilization of legal relationships", "conditions": [ "innovative, decentralized, and constantly changing technical conditions" ], "source": "Universal Digital Law Codex (UDLC) Building the Legal Infrastructure for the Digital Era", "year": "2025", "quote": "We have also demonstrated that neither conflict of laws nor legal harmonization can provide a sustainable, systemic solution. Ultimately, these approaches result in the fossilization of legal relationships,", "citation": "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" }, { "id": "kaal:claim:6269518-005", "url": "https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/6269518-005", "claim": "No static citation protocol can eliminate all arbitrage opportunities for sufficiently patient and powerful actors, a conclusion the author draws from Arrow's Impossibility Theorem, the Folk Theorems of repeated games, and incomplete contract theory.", "specific_name": "static protocol arbitrage", "conditions": [ "actors are sufficiently patient and powerful", "the citation protocol is fixed and published" ], "source": "Citation Honesty Mechanisms in Weighted Directed Acyclic Graph Governance", "year": "2026", "quote": "Arrow's Impossibility Theorem, the Folk Theorems of repeated game theory, and the theory of incomplete contracts all counsel that no static citation protocol can eliminate all arbitrage opportunities for sufficiently patient and powerful actors.6", "citation": "Wulf A. Kaal, Citation Honesty Mechanisms in Weighted Directed Acyclic Graph Governance (2026). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=6269518" }, { "id": "kaal:claim:6607458-029", "url": "https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/6607458-029", "claim": "Price and quantity controls are not the operative policy levers in computative settings, because price no longer carries the coordinating information it carries in the Neoclassical economy and quantity controls act on outputs whose realization-level supply is effectively unbounded.", "specific_name": "Obsolescence of Price and Quantity Controls", "conditions": [ "applies in computative settings" ], "source": "Computative Economics A Framework for Economic Analysis under Computational Abundance", "year": "2026", "quote": "Price controls operate on a signal that no longer carries the coordinating information it carries in the Neoclassical economy, Quantity controls operate on outputs whose supply is effectively unbounded at the realization", "citation": "Wulf A. Kaal, Computative Economics A Framework for Economic Analysis under Computational Abundance (2026). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=6607458" }, { "id": "kaal:claim:6607458-032", "url": "https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/6607458-032", "claim": "The delegated-acts and code-of-practice mechanisms in recent artificial-intelligence statutes are only partial steps toward dynamic regulation because they remain tethered to legislative revision cycles running far slower than the technology they govern.", "specific_name": "Tethered Revision Cycles", "conditions": [ "applies to recent artificial-intelligence statutes" ], "source": "Computative Economics A Framework for Economic Analysis under Computational Abundance", "year": "2026", "quote": "The delegated-acts and code-of-practice mechanisms adopted under recent artificial-intelligence statutes represent partial steps in this direction but remain tethered to legislative revision cycles that operate at substantially lower frequency than the technology they govern.", "citation": "Wulf A. Kaal, Computative Economics A Framework for Economic Analysis under Computational Abundance (2026). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=6607458" }, { "id": "kaal:claim:6421319-002", "url": "https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/6421319-002", "claim": "Monetary policy instruments become ceremonial under AI driven production, because central banks inject liquidity on schedules calibrated for scarcity economies while production compounds exponentially and money supply grows only linearly.", "specific_name": "Ceremonial Monetary Instruments", "conditions": [ "holds where AI production scales exponentially", "holds for central bank toolkits calibrated to constrained labor and limited output" ], "source": "The Collapse of Scarcity Economics", "year": "2026", "quote": "Central banks inject liquidity on schedules calibrated for scarcity economies—quarterly adjustments, annual targets, multi-year policy frameworks. Against AI production scaling, these instruments become ceremonial.", "citation": "Wulf A. Kaal, The Collapse of Scarcity Economics (2026). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=6421319" }, { "id": "kaal:claim:6421319-020", "url": "https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/6421319-020", "claim": "Costly signaling through degrees, warranties, bonding, and credit scores becomes redundant when direct verification is instantaneous and free, and the Spencian signaling game has no moves left when every agent capability is directly and costlessly observable.", "specific_name": "Signaling Redundancy", "conditions": [ "conditional on capability being directly and costlessly observable" ], "source": "The Collapse of Scarcity Economics", "year": "2026", "quote": "When every agent's capability is directly and costlessly observable, the signaling game has no moves to make.", "citation": "Wulf A. Kaal, The Collapse of Scarcity Economics (2026). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=6421319" }, { "id": "kaal:claim:6421319-031", "url": "https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/6421319-031", "claim": "The governance apparatus New Institutional Economics developed to counteract opportunism, including vertical integration, relational contracting, reputation mechanisms, hostage taking, and third party arbitration, becomes superfluous in the AI2AI economy.", "specific_name": "NIE Governance Superfluity", "conditions": [ "conditional on the elimination of opportunism among autonomous agents" ], "source": "The Collapse of Scarcity Economics", "year": "2026", "quote": "The entire governance apparatus that NIE developed to counteract opportunism, including vertical integration, relational contracting, reputation mechanisms, hostage-taking, and third-party arbitration, becomes superfluous.", "citation": "Wulf A. Kaal, The Collapse of Scarcity Economics (2026). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=6421319" } ] }