Agreement: Book-Smart, Not Street-Smart: Blockchain-Based Smart Contracts and The Social Workings of Law

Record: kaal:position:2026-08-08-076 · 2026-08-08

Book-Smart, Not Street-Smart argues that smart contracts rest on a thin conception of what law does despite features that may serve fairness. This independently corresponds to Kaal's claim that binary code execution omits legal systems' fairness and mitigation functions. The proposition does not establish the specific absence of appeal or recourse.

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 agreement.
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 argues that smart contracts rest on a thin conception of law despite features that may serve fairness. This corresponds to Kaal's claim that binary code execution omits legal systems' fairness and mitigation functions, while the source does not establish the specific absence of appeal or recourse.

Current debate

Book-Smart, Not Street-Smart: Blockchain-Based Smart Contracts and The Social Workings of Law

Scholarly basis

kaal:claim:5554218-020
Furrer Andreas, Wulf A. Kaal, Universal Digital Law Codex (UDLC) Building the Legal Infrastructure for the Digital Era (2025). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5554218
Source PDF sha256: 55738b4035a91b70aa2ddaa127552fe4b373ec641afee2719fbdcabebdcbea44

Evidence and mapping

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

Topics

smart-contracts compliance historical-response scholarly-literature crossref

Provenance

Affirmed in kaal-review:2026-08-08:continuous-crossref-0010-remainder-0002-reviewed-v1 on 2026-08-08. Review record.

Verify

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