Friday, September 18, 2026 • Swiss DAO Researcher Lukas Küng interviews Legal Engineer Kyle MacLean Smith on how decentralized organizations survive corporate liability, replace paper contracts with computational state machines, and code human accountability into execution gates.
DAO Researcher • ZHAW / UNIC / DAWO Organizing Chair
Lukas Küng is a prominent Swiss academic researcher specializing in Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) business value and governance at the ZHAW School of Management and Law and the University of Nicosia (IFF). He serves as a core organizing committee member and track chair for the European DAO Workshop (DAWO24, DAWO25 in Zurich, DAWO26 in Winterthur) and is co-author of Mastering DAOs: A Practical Guidebook.
Lead Legal Engineer • LexClinic Education Inc.
Lead Legal Engineer at LexClinic Education Inc. pioneering smart legal wrappers, computational contract runtimes, and AI verification gates. Architect of time-sharded metagit databases and ERC-7827 non-fungible governance attestations connecting natural language legal specifications with EVM state machines.
In this deep-dive academic dialogue, Lukas Küng and Kyle MacLean Smith explore how DAOs can escape general partnership joint-liability traps, why paper contracts are obsolete specification models, and how smart legal wrappers code human accountability directly into smart contract verification gates.