Publications

 

Books Authored or Edited by Helena Haapio
 

A Short Guide to Contract Risk

(with George Siedel)

Gower Publishing, (forthcoming)

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Proactive Law for Managers: A Hidden Source of Competitive Advantage

(with George Siedel)

Gower Publishing, 2011

Full contents list and List of illustrations
Preface
Chapter 1 - Seize Competitive Advantage: A Legal Plan for Managers

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Industrial Services and Service Contracts: A Proactive Approach

(with Katri Rekola)

The Federation of Finnish Technology Industries, 2009

Executive Summary

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A Proactive Approach to Contracting and Law

International Association for Contract and Commercial Management IACCM & Turku University of Applied Sciences TUAS, 2008 (Ed. Helena Haapio)
Book leaflet

List of Contents

Authors

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Book Chapters and Articles by Helena Haapio
 

Promoting Business Success Through Contract Visualization
(with Gerlinde Berger-Walliser & Robert C. Bird)

Journal of Law, Business & Ethics, Vol. 17, 2011, p. 55–75.

Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1744096

 

Visualising contracts and legal rules for greater clarity
The Law Teacher, Volume 44, Issue 3, 2010, p. 391–394.

 

Using Proactive Law for Competitive Advantage

(with George Siedel)

American Business Law Journal, Volume 47, Issue 4, Winter 2010, p. 641–686.

An earlier version of this article is available as

Using Proactive Law for Competitive Advantage

University of Michigan Ross School of Business Working Paper

Working Paper No. 1148, August 2010

 

Invisible Terms & Creative Silence: What You Don't See Can Help or Hurt You Contract Management, September 2009. National Contract Management Association (NCMA).

An earlier version of this article has been published as a chapter of Thomas D. Barton's book, Preventive Law and Problem Solving: Lawyering for the Future. Vandeplas Publishing, 2009. Order the book here

 

Better business through proactive productization and visualization of contracts (with Katri Rekola)

Contracting Excellence, June/July 2009, p. 17-. International Association for Contract and Commercial Management (IACCM).

 

Innovative Contracting

In "A Proactive Approach to Contracting and Law". International Association for Contract and Commercial Management IACCM & Turku University of Applied Sciences TUAS. Turku 2008. (Ed. Helena Haapio)

 

Contractual Risk Management: not just a matter for lawyers!

Risk Consulting Magazine 2/2007, p. 22, and Liability Newsletter, November 5, 2007, If P&C Insurance

 

Prevention beats cure — proactive contractual care for successful supply chains.

Contracting Excellence, October 2007. International Association for Contract and Commercial Management IACCM

 

An Ounce of Prevention… Proactive Legal Care for Corporate Contracting Success (For Edilex subscribers only)

JFT - Tidskrift, utgiven av Juridiska Föreningen i Finland 1/2007

 

- Introduction to Proactive Law: A Business Lawyer's View

- Business Success and Problem Prevention through Proactive Contracting

In "A Proactive Approach". Scandinavian Studies in Law, Volume 49. Stockholm Institute for Scandinavian Law, Stockholm 2006. (Ed. Peter Wahlgren & Cecilia Magnusson Sjöberg)

 

Invisible Terms in International Sales and What to Do about Them Contract Management, July 2004. National Contract Management Association NCMA.

 

Safe Sales in Cyberspace

(with Anita Smith)

American Corporate Counsel Association’s ACCA Docket July/August 2000.

Also published in International Contract Manual – Contract Checklists, Kluwer Law International, Supplement 4, November 2000; in Preventive Law Reporter, Fall 2000; at the National Center for Preventive Law website under Essays and at the Pace Law School CISG Database.
 
 
Conference Publications by Helena Haapio
 

Making Contracts Work for Clients: towards Greater Clarity and Usability

Proceedings of the International Legal Informatics Symposium – Internationales Rechtsinformatik Symposion IRIS 2012, 23–25 February 2012, Salzburg, Austria (Erich Schweighofer et al., eds., Transformation juristischer Sprachen. Tagungsband des 15. Internationalen Rechtsinformatik Symposions IRIS 2012 / Transformation of Legal Languages. Proceedings of the 15th International Legal Informatics Symposium IRIS 2012 . Band 288. Österreichische Computer Gesellschaft, Wien 2012, pp. 389–396). Also published in Jusletter IT, 24 February 2012 (en), 27. Februar 2012 (de)

LexisNexis Best Paper Award

Read more: Press Release (in German) and IACCM News

 

User-Centered Contract Design: New Directions in the Quest for Simpler Contracting (with Stefania Passera)

Proceedings of the IACCM 2011 Academic Forum for Innovative Research & Practice, 26 October 2011, Tempe (AZ), USA (R. F. Henschel, ed., Proceedings of the 2011 IACCM Academic Symposium for Contract and Commercial Management . The International Association for Contract and Commercial Management, Ridgefield, CT, 2011, pp. 80–97).

Best Paper Award

 

Contract Clarity through Visualization – Preliminary Observations and Experiments

Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Knowledge Visualization and Visual Thinking, KV2011 / 15th International Conference on Information Visualisation, 13–15 July 2011, London, UK (E. Banissi et al., eds., Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Information Visualisation, IV2011 ( London 13–15 July 2011). IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos, CA, 2011, pp. 337–342). Abstract
 

Promoting Business Success through Proactive Contracting and Visualization (with Gerlinde Berger-Walliser)

Academy of Legal Studies in Business (ALSB) 2010 Conference Proceedings

 

Contracts and Lawyers – Friends of the Project:

Proactive Contracting for Project Success

NORDNET 2004 International PM Conference, Helsinki, Finland

 

Quality Improvement through Proactive Contracting:
Contracts are too important to be left to lawyers!

(visualized by Annika Varjonen)

American Society for Quality (ASQ ) Annual Quality Congress 1998 Proceedings, p. 243-248.

 
 
Interviews
 

VIP: Helena Haapio on the need for more user-friendly contracts

VIP: Helena Haapio über die Kunst der Vertragsabfassung

VIP: Helena Haapio reflekterar kring konsten att skriva avtal

Inline 3/2011, p. 38. Rautaruukki Corporation
 
Contract Coaching – Finland's Latest Export Product
EnterpriseFinland, March 5, 2007, www.enterprisefinland.fi, Jorma Marttala
 
 
 

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