kaal:position:2026-07-31-5946

Smart Contract and Traditional Contract presents the following source proposition: With the emergence of blockchain technology followed by smart contracts, the question has been raised whether a smart contract is a contract or a program code. This proposition is pertinent to Kaal's source-bound claim that A smart contract is computer program code that enables the verification, execution and enforcement of specific terms and conditions of a contractual arrangement. The proposed response is an extension: the relationship should remain limited to the retrieved source proposition and the mapped Kaal claim unless fuller source review supports a broader conclusion.

• The response is limited to the retrieved source proposition and mapped Kaal claim unless fuller source review supports a broader conclusion.
• External evidence level: abstract indexed.
• Mapping review tier: moderate-confidence claim review.
• Primary mapping confidence: 0.3673.
• The source-to-claim mapping remains explicitly ambiguous and is published with that limitation.

Smart Contract and Traditional Contract

kaal:claim:3227967-021
Mark Fenwick, Wulf A. Kaal, Erik P.M. Vermeulen, Legal Education in a Digital Age Why 'Coding for Lawyers' Matters (2018). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3227967
Source PDF sha256: f6e13b956f864ab32ec3305d095a35a127770327d75b3688f785cefc437d369f

Evidence: abstract indexed
Review tier: moderate-confidence claim review
Mapping confidence: 0.3673
Mapping ambiguous: true

smart-contractsblockchainlaw-and-legal-systemshistorical-responsescholarly-literatureopenalex

Affirmed in kaal-review:2026-07-31:streaming-etl-0002 on 2026-07-31. Review record.

Canonical markdown sha256: 5a380e93885eb4f88c8b036a851daa2c26a5092e00a57c51d13567a4e1c9b27c
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