Generative AI, Contracts, Law and Design

Marcelo Corrales Compagnucci is an Associate Professor and Associate Director at the Center for Advanced Studies in Bioscience Innovation Law (CeBIL), Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen in Denmark. He is also an Inter-CeBIL Research Affiliate at the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School. He specializes in information technology, privacy and data protection law. His research interests are the legal issues involved in disruptive innovation technologies and biomedicine. His past activities have included working as a consultant and lawyer for law firms and IT companies. He was also a research associate with the Institute for Legal Informatics (IRI) at Leibniz Universität Hannover in Germany and a visiting research fellow in various research centers around the world, including Harvard Law School, Cambridge University, the Max Planck Institute, University of Edinburgh, Turin University, and the Academia Sinica in Taiwan. 

Helena Haapio is a Professor of Practice in Strategic Business Law at the University of Vaasa, Finland, Senior Researcher in the JARGONFREE Contract Language Research Group at Tampere University, Docent of Proactive Law and Contract Design at the University of Lapland and Contract Strategist at Lexpert Ltd. As a pioneer of Proactive Law and Legal Design, she has been promoting the use of simplification and visualization of legal information for many years. Her research and practice focus on operationalizing legal information design and using AI and design tools to transform contracts into strategic business tools that take into account the needs of different user groups, prevent misunderstandings, ease implementation, and drive better outcomes. Together with Stefania Passera, she created the WorldCC Contract Design Pattern Library.

Mark Fenwick is a Professor of International Business Law at the Faculty of Law, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan. His primary research interests are in the fields of business regulation in a networked age, and white-collar and corporate crime. Recent publications include  New Technology, Big Data & the Law  (Springer, 2017: co-edited with M Corrales Compagnucci and N Forgó),  Robotics, AI and the Future of Law  (Springer, 2018: co-edited with M Corrales Compagnucci and N Forgó),  Smart Contracts: Business, Legal & Technological Perspectives  (Hart, 2021: co-edited with M Corrales Compagnucci and S Wrbka),  Organizing-for-Innovation: Corporate Governance in a Digital Age  (Springer, 2023: co-authored with EPM Vermeulen and T Kono), and  The Law & Ethics of Data-Sharing  (Springer, 2024; co-edited with M Corrales Compagnucci, T Minssen, M Aboy, and K Liddell).