Comic Contracts and law with Robert De Rooy from Creative Contracts

Legal Design IRL: Episode 37 – Reimagine contracts through illustration

I’m Hannele Korhonen, founder of Lawyers Design School and host of Legal Design IRL. 

Today we’re lucky to chat with Robert De Rooy, who’s doing trailblazing work with Comic Contracts, or illustrated contracts. Today we’ll challenge our thoughts on what’s possible with contracts and how we can ensure better outcomes for underserved people.

Introducing Robert De Rooy

Robert is a commercial lawyer practicing in Cape Town, South Africa, and the developer of Comic Contracts, the world’s first fully illustrated contract. He is the founder of Creative Contracts (Pty) Ltd. 

The company’s purpose is to afford vulnerable people the dignity of autonomously understanding their legal contracts and other important information. He is also a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Vaasa, and he tries to balance his practice, business, studies, and family life with cycling and surfing. 

You can find Robert on Linkedin.

Comic Contracts for lawyers

In our chat we cover

• What’s possible with Comic Contracts and how we can ensure better outcomes for underserved people
• Why lawyers have a responsibility to make sure what we’re offering the public is user-friendly.
• The different metrics for good contracts
• Visualization and making contracts more accessible
• Why it’s vital lawyers put the purpose of the contract front and center
• Why Creative Comics is focused on advocating for better contracts, especially for vulnerable people – as a social enterprise. 
• How Creative Comics is creating as many different examples of Comic Contracts to give other lawyers inspiration to do something similar
• Whether Comic Contracts are legally binding 
• Comic Contracts and litigation
• A demonstration of a comic contract in real life
• The steps to transform a written contract into a comic contract
• Applying Comic Contracts to commercial agreements

Legal design thinking: IRL. Episode 37

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