Book contents
- Legal Design
- Legal Design
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures and Tables
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- I Why Legal Design
- II What Legal Design Can Do
- III How Legal Design Works
- 12 Designers, Lawyers, and Students
- 13 Teaching the Legal Inventors of the Future
- 14 The Stanford Legal Design Lab
- 15 Graphically Novel
- 16 Building Technology with(out) People
- 17 International Courts and Design
- 18 James v Birnmann
- 19 The ReInvent Law Archive
- 20 The Open Law Lab Blog
- 21 Disciplinarity and the Modes of Legal Design
- IV Where Legal Design Goes
- Conclusion
- Index
- References
16 - Building Technology with(out) People
from III - How Legal Design Works
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 December 2024
Book contents
- Legal Design
- Legal Design
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures and Tables
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- I Why Legal Design
- II What Legal Design Can Do
- III How Legal Design Works
- 12 Designers, Lawyers, and Students
- 13 Teaching the Legal Inventors of the Future
- 14 The Stanford Legal Design Lab
- 15 Graphically Novel
- 16 Building Technology with(out) People
- 17 International Courts and Design
- 18 James v Birnmann
- 19 The ReInvent Law Archive
- 20 The Open Law Lab Blog
- 21 Disciplinarity and the Modes of Legal Design
- IV Where Legal Design Goes
- Conclusion
- Index
- References
Summary
As the practice of law increasingly deploys digital technology to deliver services and information, more law schools are including instruction in technical skills. The prospect of more lawyers with digital expertise renders salient a potentially overlooked imperative: that instruction in technical skills must be paired with the development of a critical orientation toward those skills that interrogates how the techno-solutionist values exist in tension with legal values of human agency and dignity. This chapter examines the cautions of skills-forward approaches to incorporating technology into law pedagogy and practice, arguing that developing a sensitivity toward the social, economic, and political contexts in which technology is produced is essential to ensuring such expertise is applied in ways that continuously improve the quality of encounters with the law, rather than simply reproduce them in digital terms. Coupling technical instruction with critical approaches to technology can prepare professionals not only to design novel digital solutions in law practice but also to fundamentally improve legal institutions and programs through the design of technology.
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- Legal DesignDignifying People in Legal Systems, pp. 251 - 263Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024
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