Research Handbook on Contract Design

This Research Handbook provides a practical approach to contract design, focusing on user-friendliness and legal functionality. It covers the entire contract lifecycle, including implementation and integration with business infrastructure, and highlights the role of emerging technologies like AI. The goal is to simplify contracts, clarify rights and obligations, and prevent legal problems. It is a valuable resource for contract and legal professionals, scholars, and practitioners, as well as entrepreneurs, procurement and sales managers, information designers, and technologists.

Format: Hardback
Length: 480 pages
Publication date: 03 May 2022
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd

This comprehensive Research Handbook takes a fresh approach to contracts, offering practical illustrations of how they should be designed rather than merely drafted. The contributors adopt a proactive and innovative approach, showcasing how contracts can be both user-friendly and legally effective.

Going beyond the initial drafting and formation of contracts, the Handbook explores the implementation and integration of contracts with business infrastructure, including digital processes. Drawing from a multi-disciplinary perspective, it covers all aspects of the contract lifecycle, employing both theoretical and practical scenarios.

In addition to enhanced design and communication, the Handbook takes a creative view of the role of emerging technologies, such as artificial intelligence (AI), in enhancing contract functionality and visualization. The primary objectives are to simplify contracts, clarify rights and obligations, and prevent unnecessary legal issues.

Providing an up-to-date analysis of current trends in contract design thinking and practice, this Handbook serves as an invaluable resource for contract and legal professionals, scholars, practitioners, entrepreneurs, procurement and sales managers, information designers, and technologists. The forward-thinking, human-centered approach presented in this book offers insights and knowledge that will be of great value to anyone interested in improving the effectiveness and efficiency of contracts in today's business environment.

Dimension: 244 x 169 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781839102271