Book contents
- Legal Informatics
- Legal Informatics
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Part I Introduction to Legal Informatics
- Part II Legal Informatics
- Part III Use Cases in Legal Informatics
- A. Contracts and Patents
- 3.1 Contract Analytics
- 3.2 Contracts as Interfaces
- 3.3 Distributed Ledgers, Cryptography, and Smart Contracts
- 3.4 Patent Analytics
- B. Litigation and E-discovery
- C. Legal Research, Government Data, and Access to Legal Information
- D. Dispute Resolution and Access to Justice
- Part IV Legal Informatics in the Industrial Context
3.2 - Contracts as Interfaces
Visual Representation Patterns in Contract Design
from A. - Contracts and Patents
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 February 2021
- Legal Informatics
- Legal Informatics
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Part I Introduction to Legal Informatics
- Part II Legal Informatics
- Part III Use Cases in Legal Informatics
- A. Contracts and Patents
- 3.1 Contract Analytics
- 3.2 Contracts as Interfaces
- 3.3 Distributed Ledgers, Cryptography, and Smart Contracts
- 3.4 Patent Analytics
- B. Litigation and E-discovery
- C. Legal Research, Government Data, and Access to Legal Information
- D. Dispute Resolution and Access to Justice
- Part IV Legal Informatics in the Industrial Context
Summary
The world of contracts is undergoing fundamental changes. This is partly due to technology: there can be tremendous benefits from self-enforcing, machine-readable contracts. But these technologies are not used everywhere. Many contracts continue to be performed by people. In the context of commercial deals and relationships,1 a vast number of contracts still need to be planned, understood, approved, implemented, and monitored by people.2 Initiatives across the world seek to innovate contracting processes and documents and develop more effective, engaging ways for people to work with them. This chapter focuses on these initiatives and the need to make contracts truly human-readable.
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- Legal Informatics , pp. 213 - 238Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021
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