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15 - Graphically Novel

The Role of Visuals in the Legal Design Movement

from III - How Legal Design Works

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 December 2024

By
Kanan Dhru  and
Kelly Dhru
Edited by
Miso Kim ,
Dan Jackson  and
Jules Rochielle Sievert
Miso Kim
Affiliation:
Northeastern University, Boston
Dan Jackson
Affiliation:
Northeastern University, Boston
Jules Rochielle Sievert
Affiliation:
Northeastern University, Boston
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Summary

This chapter focuses on visualising the law, in the form of comics, as a specific way to understand the realm of legal design. Focusing on the case study of Lawtoons, we detail the existing definitional inconsistencies of legal design and advocate for clarity in appreciating the purview of this emerging discipline. The legal design community must have, at its very core, the ability to visualise law to make law available at scale. We also briefly lay the conceptual foundations of visualisation in law and argue that graphics and storytelling are an important way to promote dignity in legal awareness and education.

Keywords

legal designaccess to justicelegal educationlaw and comicsvisual law
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Legal Design
Dignifying People in Legal Systems
 , pp. 238 - 250
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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