# kaal:position:2026-08-08-077

**Affirmed position.** Book-Smart, Not Street-Smart states that smart contracts privilege technical form while excluding the social contexts and complex human uses within which contracts operate. This independently corresponds to Kaal's criticism that code-is-law substitutes technical protocols for interpretive flexibility and normative deliberation. The proposition does not assess Kaal's proposed legal remedy.

**Status.** affirmed  **Published.** 2026-08-08

**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 states that smart contracts privilege technical form while excluding social context and complex human uses of contracts. This directly corresponds to Kaal's criticism that code-is-law substitutes technical protocols and deterministic execution for interpretive flexibility and normative deliberation.

**Current debate.** Book-Smart, Not Street-Smart: Blockchain-Based Smart Contracts and The Social Workings of Law: https://doi.org/10.17351/ests2017.107

**Extends.** kaal:claim:5554218-019: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/5554218-019

**Scholarly basis.** 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 level.** abstract indexed

**Mapping review tier.** substantively reviewed abstract-level agreement

**Mapping confidence.** 0.62  **Mapping ambiguous.** false

**Topics.** smart-contracts, governance-design, historical-response, scholarly-literature, crossref

**Provenance.** Affirmed in kaal-review:2026-08-08:continuous-crossref-0010-remainder-0002-reviewed-v1 at https://kaal-signal-desk.wulf577462.chatgpt.site/#review.

**Record type.** This is a dated commentary position that extends a scholarly corpus claim. It is not a verbatim claim extracted from the paper.

**Canonical form.** This markdown file is the canonical hashed representation of the position.