Our People
Access to Justice
A concept which extends across most visual contracts, the focus on access to justice has been championed on our team by:
Professor Laura Puuha (Tampere)
Dr. Hayley Passmore
Rob De Rooy (BComm, LLB, MBA)
Contracts
Publications
- Employment agreements in comic book form – what a difference cartoons make …” Baasch Andersen, C. & De Rooy, R., 3 May 2022, Research Handbook on Contract Design. Corrales, M., Haapio, H. & Fenwick, M. (eds.). UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, p. 329-346 18 p.
- Facilitative contracts with visuals and comics: access to justice and steps for the future; Baasch Andersen, C. & Lee, S-H., 3 May 2022, Research Handbook on Contract Design. Corrales, M., Haapio, H. & Fenwick, M. (eds.). UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, p. 315-328 14 p.
- Making Contracts Readable — Developing Contracts in Comic Book Form; Baasch Andersen, C. & Corner, P., 2022, In: Transnational Commercial Law Review. 1, 2, 24 p.
Other
Finance and Financial Literacy
From economy to finance and psychology, investigations and project input on finance have proven significant to the project.
Our team includes:
Assoc. Prof. Giles Gignac
Prof. Ray da Silva Rosa
Dr. Ellen Bothe
Guy Singleton
Kelly Bin Yang Zan
Publications
- Assessing the efficacy of visual contracts: an empirical study of transaction costs, Zan, K., Baasch Andersen, C. & Toohey, L., 2023, In: Applied Economics. 55, 40, p. 4712-4726 15 p.
- Financial literacy mediates the effect between verbal intelligence and financial anxiety; Gignac, G. E., Gerrans, P. & Andersen, C. B., Mar 2023, In: Personality and Individual Differences. 203, 112025.
- Legal Design de Bankwest Cuentas de Transacción Fácil: Presentación del Producto [Translated title of the contribution: Legal Design of the Bankwest Easy Transaction Account: Product Schedule] Baasch Andersen, C., 2022, LEGAL DESIGN : La clave para disrumpir la profesión legal, los negocios y el sector público. Tafur, K. & Martins, M. (eds.).
Psychology
The psychological aspects, behavioural drivers, and motivational aspects of visual contract are always relevant. Specific expertise and insight is explored on our team by:
Prof. Romola Bucks
Prof. Romina Palermo
Engineering and Legal Design
Initial inspiration for the conception of Comic Contracts was found in engineering, as was our first ever attempt.
Prof. Adrian Keating
Contracts:
Publications:
- Engineering Visual Contracts: Using If-Then Thinking to Develop Behavioral Drivers for Imaging; Andersen, C. & Keating, A., 21 Feb 2020, Journal of Open Access to Law, 8, 1 17 p.
- Musings on tlegealhe comic book contract project and legal design thinking, Andersen, C., 30 Jun 2021
- Teaching Comic Book Contracting, Andersen, C., 7 Jul 2022, Design in Legal Education. Allbon, E. & Perry-Kessaris, A. (eds.). Routledge, p. 121-131 11 p.
Media And Communications
Another discipline which spans most projects, communication, culture and narratives are central. As well as being consulted from time to time on projects, the Media and Communications research has seen specific attention to comic contracts in circuits of culture and narrative contexts from our experts:
Assoc. Prof. Steven Maras
Yangjinbo Zhang
Publications:
- Reading Comic Contracts through/within the Circuit of Culture; Maras, S. & Baasch Andersen, C., 14 Sept 2023.
Philosophy
We have recently begun to extend our research into the philosophical field – especially concerning the nature of consent, and the exploration of how visual contracts bridge the gap between informed consent and “true” consent. Top collaborators:
Associate Professor Nin Kirkham
Dr. Adam Andreadotta
Publications:
- Andreotta paper.
- The Potential of Medical Consent Contracts Using Visuals; Kirkham, N. & Baasch Andersen, C., 19 Mar 2020, In: American Journal of Biomedical Science & Research. 8, 3, p. 165-166 2 p.
Legal Interpretation of Images and Emojis
Law has begun to take imagery seriously in recent years, and we have started researching the legal interpretative angles on this.
Assoc. Prof. Marilyn Bromberg
Dr. Mathias Pendl
Publications:
- FORTHCOMING emojis and the law
- Reasonable Person interpetation of imagery in law (Coventry/Andersen)
Transparent Law as a Marketing Tool
After the Bankwest PDS documents were introduced in 2021, it became apparent that the visual legal instruments had a strong marketing purpose. Since then we have been exploring marketing aspects of our contracts with:
Prof. Sharon Purchase
Ena Vejnovic
Applied Comics for Law
The development of a new industry niche for graphic art in creating comics for law, has generated much attention in the field of visual arts. We are lucky to have had Stuart Medley lead up the “Applied Comics for Law” ThinkTank since the project became established in 2017. We work with other wonderful artist (Joelle Young, Gemma Young, Louis Silvestro, etc) but the researchers involved with graphics as applied in law are:
Assoc. Prof. Stuart Medley
Daniel Coventry
Molly McCutcheon
Publications:
- Medley & Andersen Graphic Horizons (forthcoming)
- Click here to see the Medley & Mutard UWA special edition comic.
Visual Medical and Legal Documents
Our work has been developed for informed consent in the field of both medical research and treatments, and we have been fortunate to work with:
Dr. Cathy Quinlan
Grainne Butler
Jessica Boulter
Fatima Yaqoot
Children and the Law
Dr. Renae Barker
Prof. Dawn Watkins
Tim Hebbard
Visual Contracts in Agriculture
Prof. Leanne Wiseman
