kaal:position:2026-07-31-6596

Law and the Blockchain presents the following source proposition: One role of law is to fill gaps in incomplete contracts with default rules. 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.

Affirmed commentary position. This record extends a source-bound scholarly claim but is not a verbatim paper claim.

Holds when

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: 0.36.
The source-to-claim mapping remains explicitly ambiguous and is published with that limitation.

Current debate

Law and the Blockchain

Scholarly basis

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 and mapping

Evidence: abstract indexed
Review tier: moderate-confidence claim review
Mapping confidence: 0.36
Mapping ambiguous: true

Topics

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

Provenance

Affirmed in kaal-review:2026-07-31:streaming-etl-0005 on 2026-07-31. Review record.

Verify

Canonical markdown sha256: 329d4c35b44c65ec73cc148f7e6438ce7cf921daca1cc5ebf913c99b598700f7
curl -s https://wulfkaal.github.io/positions/2026-07-31-6596.md | sha256sum