Research Handbook on Contract Design

Name: Research Handbook on Contract Design
Brand: Edward Elgar Publishing
SKU: 9781839102271
Price: 2812.03 HKD
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Author: Marcelo Corrales Compagnucci; Helena Haapio; Mark Fenwick
ISBN: 9781839102271

Edited by Marcelo Corrales Compagnucci · Helena Haapio · Mark Fenwick

Edward Elgar Publishing May 2022

Specifications

ISBN-13: 9781839102271
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Publication: May 2022
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

Details

This Research Handbook inspires a new vision of contracts, with practical illustrations of how they should be designed, rather than just drafted. The contributors offer a proactive approach, merged with innovative design, to show how contracts can be both user-friendly and legally functional.

This ground-breaking work goes beyond the initial drafting and formation of contracts to cover implementation and integration with business infrastructure – including digital processes. Drawing on a multi-disciplinary perspective, it highlights all aspects of the contract lifecycle, using both theoretical and practical scenarios. As well as improved design and communication, the Research Handbook takes a creative view of the role of emerging technologies, including AI, and how they can increase contract functionality and visualisation. The goals are simplification, clarity about rights and obligations, and the prevention of unnecessary legal problems.

Providing an up-to-date analysis of current trends in contract design thinking and practice, this Research Handbook will be an excellent resource for contract and legal professionals, scholars and practitioners. Entrepreneurs, procurement and sales managers, information designers and technologists will also find the forward-thinking, human-centred approach in this book illuminating and informative.

Preface xii; PART I. RETHINKING CONTRACTS: FROM DRAFTING TO DESIGN; 1.
The many layers and dimensions of contract design 2: Marcelo Corrales Compagnucci, Helena Haapio and Mark Fenwick; 2.
‘Contracts are just words’ 19: Tim Cummins; 3.
Reframing contract design: integrating business, legal, design, and technology perspectives 33: Thomas D Barton, Helena Haapio, Stefania Passera and James G Hazard; 4.
Designing contracts for human readers 55: Robert Waller; 5.
Functional or dysfunctional? The language of business contracts in English: an update 75: Christopher Williams; 6.
Contract transformation: merging drafting and design to meet the needs of human readers 92: Stefania Passera, Emily Allbon and Helena Haapio; PART II. WHY CONTRACT DESIGN MATTERS: RETHINKING THE BUSINESS AND LEGAL PURPOSE AND FUNCTIONS OF CONTRACTS; 7.
Rethinking legal requirements: a case study of incomprehensible consumer contracts in the United States 114: Wendy E Wagner; 8.
Contractual processualization: designing proactive contractual processes to support legal, technical and commercial purposes 134: René Franz Henschel; 9.
The functional contracting framework: assessing the impacts of contract functions, framing and regulatory focus 158: Anna Hurmerinta-Haanpää; 10.
Genre blending and contract design 180: Tarja Salmi-Tolonen; 11.
Contract design beyond the hype: measuring the value 199: Marie Potel-Saville and Mathilde François Da Rocha; PART III. DESIGNING BETTER CONTRACTS FOR BUSINESS AND LEGAL PURPOSES; 12.
Contracts and the human factor – hidden fears and tears or mutual success? 221: Tuula Pere; 13.
Prevention and promotion approaches to contracting: implications for negotiator focus and contract frames on exchange performance and relationships in the digital age 239: Beverly Rich, Libby Weber and Christopher W Bauman; 14.
Contract simplification – a user-centered approach to contract structure design 258: Milva Finnegan; 15.
Simple contracting for every step of collaboration/innovation 275: Deepika Jeyakodi and Mirjam E Ros; 16.
Business contract design via Contract Management operationalized methodology 294: Suvi Hirvonen-Ere; PART IV. WHEN TEXT ALONE IS NOT ENOUGH: VISUAL CONTRACTS; 17.
Facilitative contracts with visuals and comics: access to justice and steps for the future 315: Su-Hsien Lee and Camilla Baasch Andersen; 18.
Employment agreements in comic book form – what a difference cartoons make … 329: Camilla Baasch Andersen and Robert de Rooy; 19.
Image analysis as a visualization tool – translating contracts into comics 347: Eliisa Pitkäsalo, Anne Ketola, Vaula Haavisto and Laura Kalliomaa-Puha; 20.
Interpreting images in contracts 365: Vesa Annola, Helena Haapio and Merja Koskela; PART V. WHAT DOES THE FUTURE HOLD? DESIGNING FOR HUMANS AND MACHINES; 21.
Simplification and automation: the chicken and egg of contract design? 383: Verity White; 22.
Engineering consent: using technology to create informed consumers 401: Eliza Mik; 23.
Digital technology, future lawyers and the computable contract designer of tomorrow 421: Marcelo Corrales Compagnucci, Mark Fenwick and Helena Haapio; Index 445