Conference Publications

Nina Toivonen, Marika Salo-Lahti, Mikko Ranta & Helena Haapio: Beyond Debt: The Intersection of Justice, Financial Wellbeing and AI. Paper presented at the JURIX Workshop on AI and Access to Justice, 18 December 2023, Maastricht, Netherlands & online.

Anne Ketola, Helena Haapio & Robert de Rooy: Chattable Contracts: AI-Driven Access to Justice. Paper presented at the JURIX Workshop on AI and Access to Justice, 18 December 2023, Maastricht, Netherlands & online.

Marika Salo-Lahti, Mikko Ranta & Helena Haapio: AI Tools for Sustainability – Actionable Information for both Humans and Machines. In Erich Schweighofer et al., (eds), Legal Informatics as Science of Legal Methods. Proceedings of the 26th International Legal Informatics Symposium IRIS 2023. Editions Weblaw, Bern 2023, pp. 199–209.

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.

Helena Haapio: Legal Design in Action: From Text-Only Guidebooks to Digital, Visual Playbooks. In Erich Schweighofer et al. (eds), Internet of Things. Proceedings of the 22nd International Legal Informatics Symposium IRIS 2019. Editions Weblaw, Bern 2019, p. 509–515.

Arianna Rossi, Rossana Ducato, Helena Haapio, Stefania Passera & Monica Palmirani: Legal Design Patterns: Towards A New Language for Legal Information Design. In Erich Schweighofer et al. (eds), Internet of Things. Proceedings of the 22nd International Legal Informatics Symposium IRIS 2019. Editions Weblaw, Bern 2019,  p. 517–526.

Arianna Rossi & Helena Haapio, Proactive Legal Design: Embedding Values in the Design of Legal Artefacts. In Erich Schweighofer et al. (eds), Internet of Things. Proceedings of the 22nd International Legal Informatics Symposium IRIS 2019. Editions Weblaw, Bern 2019, p. 537–544.

Helena Haapio, Robert de Rooy & Thomas D. Barton: New Contract Genres. In Erich Schweighofer et al. (eds), Data Protection / LegalTech. Proceedings of the 21th International Legal Informatics Symposium IRIS 2018. Editions Weblaw, Bern 2018, p. 455–460.

Helena Haapio, Margaret Hagan, Monica Palmirani & Arianna Rossi: Legal Design Patterns for Privacy. In Erich Schweighofer et al. (eds), Data Protection / LegalTech. Proceedings of the 21th International Legal Informatics Symposium IRIS 2018. Editions Weblaw, Bern 2018, p. 445–450.

Charlotta Kronblad & Helena Haapio: Smart Contracts – Not So Smart Legal Professionals? In Erich Schweighofer et al. (eds), Data Protection / LegalTech. Proceedings of the 21th International Legal Informatics Symposium IRIS 2018. Editions Weblaw, Bern 2018, p. 149–156.

Helena Haapio, Daniela Alina Plewe & Robert de Rooy: Contract Continuum: From Text to Images, Comics, and Code. In E. Schweighofer et al. (eds), Trends and Communities of Legal Informatics. Proceedings of the 20th International Legal Informatics Symposium IRIS 2017. Österreichische Computer Gesellschaft / books@ocg.at, Wien 2017, pp. 411–418. See more examples of Comic Contracts.

James Hazard & Helena Haapio: Wise Contracts: Smart Contracts that Work for People and Machines. In E. Schweighofer et al. (eds), Trends and Communities of Legal Informatics. Proceedings of the 20th International Legal Informatics Symposium IRIS 2017. Österreichische Computer Gesellschaft / books@ocg.at, Wien 2017, pp. 425–432.  LexisNexis Best Paper Award.

Pirjo-Leena Forsström, Helena Haapio & Stefania Passera: FAIR Design Jam: A Case Study on Co-Creating Communication about FAIR Data Principles. In E. Schweighofer et al. (eds), Trends and Communities of Legal Informatics. Proceedings of the 20th International Legal Informatics Symposium IRIS 2017. Österreichische Computer Gesellschaft / books@ocg.at, Wien 2017, pp. 433–440.

Marika Salo & Helena Haapio: Robo-advisors and Investors: Enhancing Human-Robot Interaction through Information Design. In E. Schweighofer et al. (eds), Trends and Communities of Legal Informatics. Proceedings of the 20th International Legal Informatics Symposium IRIS 2017. Österreichische Computer Gesellschaft / books@ocg.at, Wien 2017, pp. 441–448.

Thorsten Schoormann, Ralf Knackstedt & Helena Haapio: Modeling and Visualization in Law: Past, Present and Future. In E. Schweighofer et al. (eds), Trends and Communities of Legal Informatics. Proceedings of the 20th International Legal Informatics Symposium IRIS 2017. Österreichische Computer Gesellschaft / books@ocg.at, Wien 2017, pp. 395–402.

Helena Haapio & Margaret Hagan: Design Patterns for Contracts. In Erich Schweighofer et al. (eds), Networks. Proceedings of the 19th International Legal Informatics Symposium IRIS 2016. Österreichische Computer Gesellschaft OCG / books@ocg.at, Wien 2016, pp. 381–388. LexisNexis Best Paper Award.

Helena Haapio, Daniela Alina Plewe & Robert de Rooy: Next Generation Deal Design – Comics and Visual Platforms for Contracting. In Erich Schweighofer et al. (eds), Networks. Proceedings of the 19th International Legal Informatics Symposium IRIS 2016. Österreichische Computer Gesellschaft OCG / books@ocg.at, Wien 2016, pp. 373–380.

Marika Salo, Helena Haapio & Stefania Passera: Putting Financial Regulation to Work: Using Simplification and Visualization for Consumer-Friendly Information. In Erich Schweighofer et al. (eds), Networks. Proceedings of the 19th International Legal Informatics Symposium IRIS 2016. Österreichische Computer Gesellschaft OCG / books@ocg.at, Wien 2016, pp. 399–406.

Michael Curtotti, Helena Haapio & Stefania Passera: Interdisciplinary Cooperation in Legal Design and Communication. In E. Schweighofer et al. (eds), Co-operation. Proceedings of the 18th International Legal Informatics Symposium IRIS 2015. Österreichische Computer Gesellschaft OCG, Wien 2015, pp. 455–462.

Christina Ramberg & Helena Haapio: Making Contracts Work – Playing a Game for Enhanced Managerial-Legal Collaboration. In E. Schweighofer et al. (eds), Co-operation. Proceedings of the 18th International Legal Informatics Symposium IRIS 2015. Österreichische Computer Gesellschaft OCG, Wien 2015, pp. 479–486.

Meng Weng Wong, Helena Haapio, Sebastiaan Deckers & Sidhi Dhir: Computational Contract Collaboration and Construction. In E. Schweighofer et al. (eds), Co-operation. Proceedings of the 18th International Legal Informatics Symposium IRIS 2015. Österreichische Computer Gesellschaft OCG, Wien 2015, pp. 505–512.

Stefania Passera, Helena Haapio & Michael Curtotti: Making the Meaning of Contracts Visible – Automating Contract Visualization. In E. Schweighofer et al. (eds), Transparency. Proceedings of the 17th International Legal Informatics Symposium IRIS 2014. Österreichische Computer Gesellschaft OCG, Wien 2014, pp. 443–450. LexisNexis Best Paper Award – Top 10 Paper.

Helena Haapio: Lawyers as Designers, Engineers and Innovators: Better Legal Documents through Information Design and Visualization. In E. Schweighofer et al. (eds), Transparency. Proceedings of the 17th International Legal Informatics Symposium IRIS 2014. Österreichische Computer Gesellschaft OCG, Wien 2014, pp. 451–458.

Stefania Passera, Helena Haapio & Thomas D. Barton: Innovating Contract Practices: Merging Contract Design with Information Design. In J. Chittenden (ed.), Proceedings of the 2013 IACCM Academic Forum for Integrating Law and Contract Management: Proactive, Preventive and Strategic Approaches. Phoenix (AZ), USA, 8 October 2013. The International Association for Contract and Commercial Management, Ridgefield, CT 2013, pp. 29–51.

Helena Haapio: Good Contracts – Bringing Design Thinking into Contract Design. In J. Chittenden (ed.), Proceedings of the 2013 IACCM Academic Forum for Integrating Law and Contract Management: Proactive, Preventive and Strategic Approaches. Phoenix (AZ), USA, 8 October 2013. The International Association for Contract and Commercial Management, Ridgefield, CT 2013, pp. 95–136. Best Paper Award.

Stefania Passera & Helena Haapio: Transforming Contracts from Legal Rules to User-centered Communication Tools: a Human-Information Interaction Challenge. Proceedings of the 2nd Annual Symposium on Communicating Complex Information (SCCI), East Carolina University, Greenville, NC, 25–26 February 2013.

Helena Haapio: Designing Readable Contracts: Goodbye to Legal Writing – Welcome to Information Design and Visualization. In E. Schweighofer et al. (eds), Abstraction and Application. Proceedings of 16th International Legal Informatics Symposium IRIS 2013. Österreichische Computer Gesellschaft OCG Wien 2013, pp. 445–452. LexisNexis Best Paper Award – Top 10 Paper.

Helena Haapio: Visualising Contracts for Better Business. XXVII Nordic Conference on Law and IT: Internationalisation of law in the digital information society. Stockholm, Sweden, 21–23 November 2012.  D. J. B. Svantesson & S. Greenstein (eds.), Yearbook of Law and Informatics 2010–2012. Ex Tuto Publishing, Copenhagen 2013, pp. 285–310.

Helena Haapio & Stefania Passera: Innovating Procurement Contracting: Merging Contract Design with Information Design. Paper presented at the Finnish Doctoral Program in Industrial Engineering and Management, Arctic Workshop 2012 – Innovation & Sourcing, Espoo, Finland, 15–16 November 2012.

James P. Groton & Helena Haapio: From Reaction to Proactive Action: Dispute Prevention Processes in Business Agreements. IACCM EMEA Academic Symposium, London, UK, 9 November 2007 & IACCM Americas Academic Symposium, Fort McDowell/Scottsdale (AZ), USA, 7 April 2008.

For more book chapters and articles, see Helena Haapio’s publications at SSRN, Academia.edu and ResearchGate.