Legal Design
Legal Design
Dignifying People in Legal Systems
Miso Kim, Northeastern University, Boston
Dan Jackson, Northeastern University, Boston
Jules Rochielle Sievert, Northeastern University, Boston
Dan Jackson, Northeastern University, Boston
Jules Rochielle Sievert, Northeastern University, Boston
December 2024
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Legal design is a rapidly growing field that seeks to improve the legal system's accessibility, usability, and effectiveness through human-centered design methods and principles. This book provides a comprehensive introduction to legal design, covering fundamental concepts, definitions, and theories. Chapters explore the role of legal design in promoting dignity, equity, and justice in the legal system. Contributors present a range of community-driven projects and method-focused case studies that demonstrate the potential of legal design to transform how people experience the law. This book is an essential resource for anyone interested in the future of law and the intersection of design and justice.
- Presents legal design as a means to elevate dignity in our daily existence.
- Highlights successful legal design interventions from diverse community organizations and institutional players.
- Distills innovative approaches for the future of legal education from legal design pedagogy.
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Table of Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Dedication
- Figures and Tables
- Foreword Martha F. Davis
- Introduction Miso Kim, Dan Jackson and Jules Rochielle Sievert
- 1. Dignifying law in design Miso Kim
- 2. Dignifying design in law Dan Jackson
- 3. Dignifying imagination in legal education Jules Rochielle Sievert
- 4. Dignity in the courtroom: judges and self-represented litigants Jennifer Leitch
- 5. Contracts for dignity Robert De Rooy
- 6. Dignifying the experience of domestic violence survivors seeking legal services Morgan A. Wilson
- 7. More than a building: the architecture of fairness and dignity Dan Jackson and Sanea Lamas
- 8. Movement lawyering: legal strategies to build people power Purvi Shah, Meena Jagannath and Alana Greer
- 9. Deploying art and design to highlight the dignity of domestic workers in their struggle for labor rights Natalicia R. Tracy
- 10. The massachusetts commission on LGBTQ youth Alexander Nally
- 11. My mainway: designing in dignity for policy making Leon Cruickshank and Mirian Calvo
- 12. Designers, lawyers, and students: a decade of nulawlab experience Dan Jackson, Jules Rochielle Sievert and Miso Kim
- 13. Teaching the legal inventors of the future Jules Rochielle Sievert, Miso Kim and Dan Jackson
- 14. The stanford legal design lab Margaret Hagan and Kürṣat Özenç
- 15. Graphically novel: the role of visuals in the legal design movement Kanan Dhru and Kelly Dhru
- 16. Building technology with(out) people Steven Geofrey
- 17. International courts & design Sofia Stolk
- 18. James v Birnmann: the potential of critical design for examining legal issues Phoebe Walton
- 19. The reinvent law archive Renee Knake Jefferson
- 20. The open law lab blog Margaret Hagan
- 21. Disciplinarity and the modes of legal design Michael Doherty
- 22. Legal design could and should be more sociolegal Amanda Perry-Kessaris
- 23. Navigating in a post-quantum legal design landscape Katri Nousiainen And Joonas Keski-Rahkonen
- 24. Evaluation capacity building in legal design Tiana Yom
- 25. The Peril and promise of certificates and degree programs in legal design Gabriel H. Teninbaum
- 26. Repair & resistance: law students as leaders of the legal design movement Antonio Coronado
- Conclusion: Building a future world of dignity, equity and justice for all Jules Rochielle Sievert, Dan Jackson and Miso Kim
- References
- Index.
