kaal:position:2026-07-31-6685

The <scp>Unidroit</scp> Principles and the inflexibility of code as law: reconciling smart contracts with general clauses presents the following source proposition: These technologies follow a deterministic, if/then logic that is often difficult to reconcile with the inherent malleability of contract law. This proposition is pertinent to Kaal's source-bound claim that Smart contracts fail to accommodate human business interaction because code does not follow the same logic on similar terms as natural human language, so the flexibility in interpreting intent that human dealings require cannot be ensured. 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: 0.3658.
• The source-to-claim mapping remains explicitly ambiguous and is published with that limitation.

The <scp>Unidroit</scp> Principles and the inflexibility of code as law: reconciling smart contracts with general clauses

kaal:claim:3406323-032
Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralization - A Primer on the New Economy (2019). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3406323
Source PDF sha256: 6293780b57a1ae1de17ec00f99cc94295d4f72ea4d08b17a5c08c44772b221db

Evidence: abstract indexed
Review tier: moderate-confidence claim review
Mapping confidence: 0.3658
Mapping ambiguous: true

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

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