kaal:position:2026-07-31-6044

Validation and Verification of Smart Contracts: A Research Agenda presents the following source proposition: Smart contracts might encode legal contracts written in natural language to represent the contracting parties' shared understandings and intentions. 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: 0.3671.
• The source-to-claim mapping remains explicitly ambiguous and is published with that limitation.

Validation and Verification of Smart Contracts: A Research Agenda

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: 0.3671
Mapping ambiguous: true

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

Affirmed in kaal-review:2026-07-31:streaming-etl-0003 on 2026-07-31. Review record.

Canonical markdown sha256: c3a0088ad19d2a046251b75aab5109ec2269e0a31ad2cb82986c6c1dfb781d50
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