kaal:position:2026-07-31-6158

From smart legal contracts to contracts on blockchain: An empirical investigation presents the following source proposition: The issue surrounding the nature and function of smart contracts in the context of legal relationships has garnered significant attention from the European and national legislators, regulatory bodies and legal scholarship. 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: 0.3605.
• The source-to-claim mapping remains explicitly ambiguous and is published with that limitation.

From smart legal contracts to contracts on blockchain: An empirical investigation

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: 0.3605
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: fde52a9ff8773db16d75ea06bdbf7d482e555977257fbe37317fc6e3c0e5925d
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