Helena Haapio is the author, co-author or co-editor of several books in English and in Finnish. Her articles have appeared in many Law Journals and business and professional publications. The following list includes some of her English publications.
Books
Research Handbook on Contract Design, Edward Elgar 2022 (eds Marcelo Corrales Compagnucci, Helena Haapio & Mark Fenwick)
Legal Design: Integrating Business, Design and Legal Thinking with Technology, Edward Elgar 2021 (eds Marcelo Corrales, Helena Haapio, Margaret Hagan & Michael Doherty)
Legal Tech, Smart Contracts and Blockchain, Springer Nature Singapore Pte 2019 (eds Marcelo Corrales, Mark Fenwick & Helena Haapio)
Next Generation Contracts: A Paradigm Shift, Doctoral dissertation, Lexpert Ltd 2013
A Short Guide to Contract Risk, Gower Publishing 2013 (co-authored with George Siedel)
Proactive Law for Managers: A Hidden Source of Competitive Advantage, Gower Publishing 2011 (co-authored with George Siedel)
Industrial Services and Service Contracts: A Proactive Approach, The Federation of Finnish Technology Industries 2009 (co-authored with Katri Rekola)
Executive Summary
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)
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Authors
Book Chapters and Articles
Marika Salo-Lahti, Mikko Ranta & Helena Haapio: AI Tools for Sustainability: Actionable information for both humans and machines. Jusletter IT, 30 March 2023.
Marcelo Corrales Compagnucci, Helena Haapio & Mark Fenwick, The Many Layers and Dimensions of Contract Design. In Marcelo Corrales Compagnucci, Helena Haapio and Mark Fenwick (eds), Research Handbook on Contract Design, Edward Elgar 2022, p. 2–8.
Robert Waller, Stefania Passera & Helena Haapio, Layered Contracts: Both Legally Functional and Human-Friendly. In Kai Jacob et al. (eds), Liquid Legal – Humanization and the Law, Springer 2022.
Marcelo Corrales Compagnucci, Mark Fenwick, Helena Haapio, Timo Minssen & Erik P.M. Vermeulen, Technology-Driven Disruption of Healthcare & “UI Layer” Privacy-by-Design. In Marcelo Corrales Compagnucci et al. (eds), AI in eHealth: Human Autonomy, Data Governance & Privacy in Healthcare, Cambridge University Press 2022. Manuscript available at SSRN.
Helena Haapio, Visualisation in Contract Education and Practice. The First 25 Years. In Emily Allbon & Amanda Perry-Kessaris (eds), Design in Legal Education. Emerging Legal Education Series. Routledge 2022.
Marcelo Corrales Compagnucci, Mark Fenwick, Helena Haapio & Erik P.M. Vermeulen, Integrating Law, Technology, and Design: Teaching Data Protection and Privacy Law in a Digital Age. International Data Privacy Law, Volume 12, Issue 3, August 2022, p. 239–252.
Helena Haapio, Essor de la proactive law. Le JEM – Juriste d’Entreprise Magazine, No 41, Mai 2022, p. 48–51.
Marcelo Corrales Compagnucci, Mark Fenwick & Helena Haapio, Digital Technology, Future Lawyers and the Computable Contract Designer of Tomorrow. In Marcelo Corrales Compagnucci, Helena Haapio and Mark Fenwick (eds), Research Handbook on Contract Design, Edward Elgar 2022, p. 421–444.
Vesa Annola, Helena Haapio & Merja Koskela, Interpreting Images in Contracts. In Marcelo Corrales Compagnucci, Helena Haapio and Mark Fenwick (eds), Research Handbook on Contract Design, Edward Elgar 2022, p. 365–381.
Stefania Passera, Emily Allbon and Helena Haapio, Contract Transformation: Merging Drafting and Design to Meet the Needs of Human Readers. In Marcelo Corrales Compagnucci, Helena Haapio and Mark Fenwick (eds), Research Handbook on Contract Design. Edward Elgar 2022, p. 92–112.
Thomas D Barton, Helena Haapio, Stefania Passera & James G Hazard, Reframing Contract Design: Integrating Business, Legal Design, and Technology Perspectives. In Marcelo Corrales Compagnucci, Helena Haapio and Mark Fenwick (eds), Research Handbook on Contract Design. Edward Elgar 2022, p. 33–54.
Conference Publications
Marika Salo-Lahti & Helena Haapio: Proactive Legal Design and AI for Better Business and Better Society. Paper presented at the Legal Design Roundtable 2023, 17 February 2023, Brussels, Belgium
Robert de Rooy, Anne Ketola & Helena Haapio: Comic Contracts 2.0 – Contracts that Have (and Give) a Voice. Paper presented at the Legal Design Roundtable 2023, 17 February 2023, Brussels, Belgium
Helena Haapio: Transforming Contract Creation: Goodbye to Legal Writing – revisited. In Erich Schweighofer et al. (eds), Responsible Digitalization. Proceedings of the 23rd International Legal Informatics Symposium IRIS 2020. Editions Weblaw, Bern 2020, p. 459–466.
Rory Unsworth & Helena Haapio: Tidying up Contract Portfolios the Marie Kondo Way. In Erich Schweighofer et al. (eds), Responsible Digitalization. Proceedings of the 23rd International Legal Informatics Symposium IRIS 2020. Editions Weblaw, Bern 2020, p. 467–474.
Other Publications
Design patterns for contracts: or how you’ve been doing contracts wrong this whole time (and how to fix it), (invited guest blog post, co-authored with Margaret Hagan) Juro Better legal design blog post, February 5, 2018. Juro blog Legal design in practice.
Visual law: What lawyers need to learn from information designers (invited guest blog post, co-authored with Stefania Passera) VoxPopuLII Blog post, May 15, 2013. Cornell University Law School.
See Helena Haapio’s publications at SSRN, Academia.edu and ResearchGate.
Press
Report from the legal tech conference Future Law 2023.
Contract Improvement Personas: the Drafters, Designers, Digitisers and Doers. Chris Simkins, April 2023, Improving Contracts Blog
Contract Design Trends 2022 & 2023 with Helena Haapio from Lexpert. Summary of an interview. Hannele Korhonen, 9 November 2022, Lawyers Design School
Proactive Legal Information Design with Helena Haapio and Rob Waller (podcast). Henna Tolvanen & Nina Toivonen, 20 October 2021, Legal Design Podcast
“Are terms understood in the intended way – and what can be done about it?” asks Helena Haapio. Hanna Pentti, 8 October 2021, Fondia Insights / Blog.