DAO Legal Issues
General
COALA DAO Model Law -- The DAO Model Law with legal certainty, and flexibility, provided by a global and multidisciplinary community
https://coala.global/daomodellaw/
DAOs: Legal and Empirical Review -- empirically reviewing the concept of DAOs and the necessity of a legal wrapper
by Stefanie Boss (Jul 2023)
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4503234
US
Legal Framework for Non-U.S. Trusts in DAOs -- explaining advantages in the US context of using the Purpose Trust under Guernsey law in terms of limiting liability for DAO and participants, engagement in off-chain activities, flexibility and clarifying United States tax payment and reporting obligations.
by dYdX Foundation (Mar 2022)
https://www.dydx.foundation/blog/legal-framework-non-us-trusts-in-daos
A Legal Framework for Decentralized Autonomous Organizations -- discussing potential legal wrapper options in the US context
by Miles Jennings and David Kerr (Jun 2022)
https://a16zcryptocms.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/dao-legal-framework-part-1.pdf
A Legal Framework for Decentralized Autonomous Organizations Part II: Entity Selection Framework -- listing considerations and a framework for selecting the DAO structure
by Miles Jennings and David Kerr (Jun 2022)
https://a16zcryptocms.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/dao-legal-framework-part-2.pdf
DAOs & Legal Risks, Pre-DAO and Post-DAO Legal Risk Assessment -- describing legal risks to be considered when launching DAO mainly in the US context
by Kevin Chen (Oct 2022)
https://lawofcode.substack.com/p/daos-and-legal-risks
CFTC Action
Ooki DAO Case