Qualification: End-to-End Smart Legal Contracts

Record: kaal:position:2026-08-08-055 · 2026-08-08

End-to-End Smart Legal Contracts argues that smart contracts need a firm private-law foundation before regulation is considered. This independently corresponds to Kaal's sequencing claim that contract-law doctrine must be adjusted before smart contracts are fully accommodated. The abstract proposition does not identify which formation, interpretation, conditions, or remedies rules require adjustment.

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: substantively reviewed abstract-level qualification.
Primary mapping confidence: 0.62.
The primary mapping cleared the automated ambiguity test; substantive scope remains review-bound.
Evidence is limited to an exact proposition in a Crossref-indexed abstract; full text was not reviewed.
No relationship is treated as external endorsement, citation, causation, or validation of a broader Kaal claim.
The source states that smart contracts need a firm private-law foundation before regulation is considered. This corresponds to Kaal's sequencing claim that contract-law doctrine requires substantive adjustment before smart contracts can be accommodated, but the proposition does not enumerate formation, interpretation, conditions, or remedies.

Current debate

End-to-End Smart Legal Contracts

Scholarly basis

kaal:claim:2939127-027
Mark Fenwick, Wulf A. Kaal, Erik P. M. Vermeulen, Legal Education in the Blockchain Revolution (2017). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2939127
Source PDF sha256: abcef529c7200261c59eec43018375b3b26e3186239fb9d002bacc298dba26ff

Evidence and mapping

Evidence: abstract indexed
Review tier: substantively reviewed abstract-level qualification
Mapping confidence: 0.62
Mapping ambiguous: false

Topics

law-and-legal-systems smart-contracts historical-response scholarly-literature crossref

Provenance

Affirmed in kaal-review:2026-08-08:continuous-crossref-0010-reviewed-v1 on 2026-08-08. Review record.

Verify

Canonical markdown sha256: 42c8fda414efec3beec544ae9008b0f07cae3670c7cfbe3ed2b3f0916f9f27e3
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