Professor Camilla Baasch Andersen
Professor at the University of Western Australia, Pioneer of Comic Book Contracting
Camilla has been a professional academic in Commercial Law for almost 20 years, starting as a Resarch Fellow at University of Copenhagen, where she obtained her initial law degree (Cand Jur). She has held posts at Queen Mary, University of London, University of Leicester and visiting posts on three continents.
Camilla has published extensively on comparative commercial law, international sales (CISG), commercial arbitration and legal design. For more information, see her UWA profile: https://research-repository.uwa.edu.au/en/persons/camilla-andersen
Doctor Colette R. Brunschwig
Senior Research Associate
Colette R. Brunschwig is a Senior Research Associate at the University of Zurich (Switzerland), Department of Law, Center for Legal History Research, Legal Visualization Unit. She is responsible for the Legal Visualization Unit’s legal image database. Colette R. Brunschwig’s research focuses on legal visualization (legal norm images, verbo-visual contracts, and so forth), legal audiovisualization (legal videos, legal animations, and so forth), and legal multi-sensorization (legal virtual realities, humanoid robots for legal purposes). Her publications, postings, and presentations at national and international conferences strive to promote, expand, and intensify the ongoing debate on these subject matters. Most of her English language scholarship is available on her SSRN site (see https://www.ssrn.com/en/ and search "Colette R. Brunschwig" in the search field to find Doctor Colette R. Brunschwig's most pertinent publications).
To view Professor Camilla Baasch Andersen and Dr. Colette R. Brunschwig's Q&A made especially for the Comic and Creative Contracts Conference 2017, please click here. In this video, Colette R. Brunschwig answers questions regarding her research topics. She shares her thoughts on the current state and potential future growth of legal visualization, while also considering comic book contracts.
Robert De Rooy
Commercial attorney and Non-Executive Director on the boards of several companies
Robert provides legal advice, facilitates strategic discussions and drafts contracts. Living in one of the world’s most unequal societies, he wants to make a meaningful positive difference to the vulnerable situation of so many in South Africa and elsewhere. From this the idea of Comic Contracts was born, the world’s first fully illustrated contract, designed to help illiterate people understand the contracts they sign, and for which he was awarded IACCM’s 2016 Innovation Award. He was born in Cape Town in 1970, studied business and law at the University of Stellenbosch and the University of Leiden in Holland and obtained an MBA at the University of Cape Town. He lives in Cape Town with his wife, two teenage daughters and 4-year-old son, and tries to balance work and family with some cycling and surfing.
The Hon. Robert French AC
Former Chief Justice of the Australian High Court and Chancellor of the University of Western Australia
Robert Shenton French was appointed Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia in September 2008. At the time of his appointment he was a judge of the Federal Court of Australia, having been appointed to that office in November 1986.
Robert French graduated from the University of Western Australia having completed a Bachelor's Degree in science and later pursuing further studies in law. After being admitted in 1972 and practicing as a barrister in 1983, Robert French was appointed as the resident of the National Native Title Tribunal in 1994. Since then, Robert French's reputation as a jurist has grown, being appointed as a jurist in many capacities, culminating in Robert French's appoint as Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia in 2008.
Amongst his other achievements, Robert French is an advocate for indigenous rights, having founded the WA Aboriginal Legal Service in the early 1970s as well as an educator, often giving guest lectures and speeches on matters of public law. He continues his career as an educator serving as the 15th Chancellor of the University of Western Australia.
Helena Haapio
Contract Innovator & Proactive Law Pioneer
Helena works as Associate Professor of Business Law at the University of Vaasa, Finland and as Contract Coach for Lexpert Ltd. She helps lawyers and clients use contracts and the law proactively to achieve better business results, balance risk with reward, and stay out of unnecessary problems. As the co-leader of the Nordic School of Proactive Law and of the ProActive ThinkTank she works with colleagues and designers to transform contracts from legal instruments to valuable business tools. She has for many years promoted the use of simplification and visualization in commercial contracts. She also acts as arbitrator.
After completing legal studies at the University of Turku, Finland, and Cambridge University, England, she served for several years as in-house Legal Counsel in Europe and the United States, focusing on cross-border contracts. She has designed and conducted training on Proactive Contracting, Contractual Risk Management, and Contract & Legal Design around the world. Since her doctoral dissertation on Next Generation Contracts her research focuses on ways to enhance the functionality, usability, and user experience of contracts. Her mission is to fundamentally change the way contracts and the law are designed, communicated, perceived, and taught.
Jennifer Jarrard
IACCM Director, Co-founder of Mindwerx International and Director of the Buzan Centre Australia
Jennifer is an inspiring and thought provoking speaker, trainer, coach, and facilitator who understands the importance of boosting competencies, productivity and effectiveness of those she works with.
She has a suite of tools focussed on building the knowledge, skills and abilities of participants/practitioners to help them fully realise their potential to contribute within their specific environments.
Over the last 20 years she has trained in a wide variety of organisations, and completed major assignments in Australia, NZ, China, SE Asia, UAE, USA, South Africa and UK. She is experienced in delivering a wide range of programs, from Bite-sized workshops, online modules, lecturing in undergraduate and graduate subjects, up to week long programs as a Master Trainer. Her success at completing a very broad range of assignments is an indication of her versatility and competence at meeting her personal mission – to Add Value to the people and companies she works with!
Su-Hsien Lee
Co-CEO, WA’s Individualised Services Inc.
Following a brief career as a lawyer and with post-graduate qualifications in Human Rights Practice, Su has extensive experience with systemic policy and advocacy in the disability sector.
Having worked across a number of advocacy organisations within the sector, including in senior management roles; with a service provider; and, two short-term secondments to the Department of Premier & Cabinet and Treasury Department, Su-Hsien has a comprehensive understanding of the disability support system and what it takes to facilitate people’s natural authority over their own lives and lifestyles. Su-Hsien currently utilises her legal training and skills when supporting people and families, who choose to self-manage their disability funding and want to hire their own workers, to understand what their legal considerations are as potential employers. This work led Su-Hsien and WAiS to UWA and the potential benefit of comic contracts by people self-managing.
John McGuire
Aurecon's Chief Innovation Officer
John is an experienced business leader, offering over 25 years of experience in consulting and contracting in Australia, the Middle East, and the United Kingdom. He has been involved in a wide range of projects, specifically in healthcare, forensic and specialist containment laboratories.
As a mechanical engineer, John is well known for his creative approaches to design innovation and sustainability. He is a guest lecturer at the architecture schools at the University of Western Australia and Curtin University as well as an international judge and faculty member for the International Academy of Design and Health. Most recently he has been working with the Design Innovation Research Centre at the University of Technology Sydney looking at how Design Led Innovation can be applied in Aurecon. Notable projects with which John has been involved include the Fiona Stanley Hospital in Western Australia, the AUD 450 million Austin Repat Mercy Redevelopment in Victoria and the Auckland City Hospital in New Zealand.
Stefania Passera
Designer, Consultant and Researcher
Stefania Passera (MA, D.Sc.(Tech), Aalto University) is a designer, consultant and academic specialized in legal information design, helping private and public organizations make their documents (contracts, policies, T&Cs, contract briefs) user-friendly, clear, and effective. In her doctoral dissertation she explored how visualizations can enhance the usability and user experience of contracts.
Furthermore, as the initiator of Legal Design Jam, Stefania leads a hands-on workshop that brings together different stakeholders to give an extreme user-centric makeover to a chosen contract.”
Robert Sikoryak
Illustrator and Author.
R. Sikoryak is the cartoonist responsible for Masterpiece Comics, Terms and Conditions, and The Unquotable Trump (all published by Drawn & Quarterly). He continues to adapt the classics for various anthologies, as seen in The Graphic Canon, The Best American Comics 2015, and Fable Comics.
His comics and illustrations have appeared in the New Yorker, The Onion, GQ, MAD, SpongeBob Comics, and Nickelodeon Magazine, as well as on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. He’s done storyboards and character designs for Augenblick Studios on various animated projects. More recently, Sikoryak has recently released 'Terms and Conditions', a graphic novel illustrating, word-for-word, Apple's infamous Terms and Conditions - highlighting the enormity, density, and complexity of the legal document.
Sikoryak is in the speakers program of the New York Council of the Humanities, and he teaches in the illustration department at Parsons The New School for Design and at The Center for Cartoon Studies. Since 1997, he's presented his live cartoon slide show series, Carousel, around the United States and Canada.
Loui Silvestro
Illustrator, Visual Recorder and Animator.
Loui is quick to synthesize content into meaning and illustrates live at seminars and workshops. He views every assignment as an opportunity to create something special. His gift is not just in the ability to draw, but to listen, summarise and visually communicate complex ideas with an appropriate sense of humour. Loui works not only in Australia but his work is requested internationally.
Recently, Loui has been working together with Professor Andersen and creating comic book style contracts; visual representations of rights and obligations that are easy to digest and comprehend. Loui's work has seen him draft work for the UWA Engineering students and for the National Hardship Register - work that can be seen and accessed right here on this website!
J. Kim Wright
Legal System Change Entrepreneur: ABA Author, Keynote Speaker, Trainer, Coach, Consultant, Connector, Catalyser, and Nomad
After first being licensed as a lawyer in 1989, J. Kim Wright embarked on a journey, leaving her house and office in 2008 to promote the profession as one about peacemaking, problem-solving, and healing.
What was thought to be a 3-month journey has now amounted to over 9 years and has covered five continents. J. Kim Wright has taken part in numerous initiatives, conferences, and events promoting a fundamental shift in the legal system that is now known as Integrative Law. Notable achievements in her long list of many include being the author of two ABA best-selling books, Lawyers as Peacemakers, Practicing Holistic, Problem-Solving Law and Lawyers as Changemakers, The Global Integrative Law Movement. Furthermore, J. Kim Wright has been a guest lecturer at dozens of institutions, delivering talks on more than 35 topics in integrative law. Her most popular course, delivered to hundreds of lawyers and law students on five continents, is called Conscious Contracts. We were excited to have J. Kim Wright talk at the inaugural Comic Book Contacts Conference and provide her insight into what is an emerging area of innovative law aimed to penetrate language barriers and provide more tools for lawyers and those that are not. For a full list of J. Kim Wrights achievements click here.
Peter Corner
Alternative Contracting
