# kaal:position:2026-07-31-007

**Affirmed position.** 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.

**Status.** affirmed  **Published.** 2026-07-31

**Holds when.**

- 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.

**Current debate.** Universal Digital Law Codex (UDLC): Building the Legal Infrastructure for the Digital Era: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/3e2b5dd3eb6482b5f80cebfad75deeac38ce8b07

**Extends.** kaal:claim:5554218-001: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/5554218-001

**Scholarly basis.** 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 level.** metadata only

**Mapping review tier.** high-confidence claim review

**Mapping confidence.** 0.99  **Mapping ambiguous.** true

**Topics.** smart-contracts

**Provenance.** Affirmed in historical-backfill:2026-07-31:phase-0001 at https://kaal-signal-desk.wulf577462.chatgpt.site/#review.

**Record type.** This is a dated commentary position that extends a scholarly corpus claim. It is not a verbatim claim extracted from the paper.

**Canonical form.** This markdown file is the canonical hashed representation of the position.