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14 - The Stanford Legal Design Lab

from III - How Legal Design Works

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 December 2024

By
Margaret Hagan  and
Kürṣat Özenç
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

The Legal Design Lab is an interdisciplinary team based at Stanford Law School and d.school, which does exploratory design work and empirical research to reimagine how the legal system could work. They seek to build a new generation of legal products and services. This team uses human-centered design and agile development methodology to design new solutions for legal services. This chapter explores the value of interdisciplinary pedagogies in legal education and methods that are taught, with a focus on how design students can grow their ideas and innovation by engaging with legal actors and institutions.

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policy designaccess to justicelegal education
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Legal Design
Dignifying People in Legal Systems
 , pp. 228 - 237
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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