kaal:position:2026-07-31-007

Universal Digital Law Codex (UDLC): Building the Legal Infrastructure for the Digital Era should be assessed against Kaal's source-bound claim that Smart contracts disrupt the foundational principles of contract formation in both common and civil law jurisdictions, specifically offer and acceptance, consideration, and enforceability, because their automated and immutable execution lacks the flexibility that law derives from human negotiation and judicial oversight. The current metadata indicates a plausible connection through Universal Digital Law Codex UDLC Building the Legal Infrastructure for the Digital Era, Universal Digital Law Codex UDLC, but the defensible response is a qualification until the source text confirms agreement, scope, methods, and limitations.

• common law and civil law jurisdictions
• self-executing smart contracts deployed on blockchain
• External evidence level: metadata only.
• Mapping review tier: high-confidence claim review.
• The literature-to-claim mapping remains explicitly ambiguous and should not be treated as a settled equivalence.

Universal Digital Law Codex (UDLC): Building the Legal Infrastructure for the Digital Era

kaal:claim:5554218-001
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
Source PDF sha256: 55738b4035a91b70aa2ddaa127552fe4b373ec641afee2719fbdcabebdcbea44

Evidence: metadata only
Review tier: high-confidence claim review
Mapping confidence: 0.99
Mapping ambiguous: true

smart-contracts

Affirmed in historical-backfill:2026-07-31:phase-0001 on 2026-07-31. Review record.

Canonical markdown sha256: 0de0800960cd65d2c31ea5711dc87c588129714bfa92b33164a547c12defbcc4
curl -s https://wulfkaal.github.io/positions/2026-07-31-007.md | sha256sum