Research Handbook on Contract Design

Edited by Marcelo Corrales Compagnucci, Associate Professor, Centre for Advanced Studies in Biomedical Innovation Law (CeBIL), University of Copenhagen, Denmark, Helena Haapio, Associate Professor of Business Law, University of Vaasa School of Accounting and Finance and Professor of Practice and Adjunct Professor of Proactive Law and Contract Design, University of Lapland, Finland and Mark Fenwick, Professor, Faculty of Law, Kyushu University, Japan

Contents:

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