This visually rich, experience-led collection explores what design can do for legal education. In recent decades design has increasingly come to be understood as a resource to improve other fields of public, private and civil society practice; and legal design—that is, the application of design-based methods to legal practice—is increasingly embedded in lawyering across the world. It brings together experts from multiple disciplines, professions and jurisdictions to reflect upon how designerly mindsets, processes and strategies can enhance teaching and learning across higher education, public legal information and legal practice; and will be of interest and use to those teaching and learning in any and all of those fields.
Table of Contents:
1. What can design do for legal education?
Part I: Higher Education
2. Socio-legal methods labs as pedagogical spaces: Experimentation, knowledge building, community development
3. Using personae, vignettes and visual approaches to communicate and interrogate sociolegal concepts, theory and methods
4. Objects and visual devices in teaching for peace: Narrowing the gaps between the languages of social sciences and law
5. Psychologically-Informed Design in Legal Education
6. Service design comes to Blackstone’s tower: Applying design thinking to curriculum development in legal education
7. Teaching innovation in the age of technology: Educating lawyers for digital disruption using visually-oriented legal design principles?
8. Teaching IT Law through the lens of legal design
9. Making a racism reporting tool: A legal design case study
10. Teaching comic book contracting
Part II: Public Legal Education
11. Using human centred design to break down barriers to legal participation
12. Judging by appearances
13. Designing to dismantle
14. Taking our interactive co-design workshop online
15. Designing access to the law: An ethical perspective
Part III: Legal Practice
16. Visualisation in contract education and practice: The first 25 years
17. How Legal Design is shaping satisfaction, standards and substance in legal practice
18. Design in legal publishing
19. Lawyers are still lawyers. Except when they’re not
