Legal Design: Dignifying People in Legal Systems

by Miso Kim (Editor), Dan Jackson (Editor), Jules Rochielle Sievert (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781009437073
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	12/19/2024
Pages:	436
Product dimensions:	6.30(w) x 9.29(h) x 1.06(d)

About the Author

Miso Kim is an Associate Professor of Experience Design at Northeastern University. She holds a Ph.D. in Design, a MDes in Interaction Design, and a MDes in Communication Planning and Information Design from Carnegie Mellon University. She also holds a BS in Architecture from Sungkyunkwan University in South Korea.

Dan Jackson is the Executive Director of NuLawLab at Northeastern University School of Law. Jackson is also Chair of the American Bar Association Standing Committee on the Delivery of Legal Services and holds a JD from Northeastern University.

Jules Rochielle Sievert is pursuing an Interdisciplinary Ph.D. at Northeastern University and has been with NuLawLab since 2013. Jules was recently an Ambassador for Health Equity at Policy Link, and a Creative Placemaking Policy Fellow at Arizona State University through the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts.

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.