Full Description
This book brings together diverse perspectives from researchers working in the fields of law, justice, and design to interrogate the emergence of vocabularies and methods of legal design and unpack their epistemic consequences.
Legal design has emerged in the last decade as an interdisciplinary practice, at the intersection of law and justice, and initially human-centred design. Despite the short history of legal design as a discipline, its foundations in human-centred design have been questioned. Justifying all sorts of innovation for the universal needs of users is even more problematic for human-centred design due to its large adoption in industry and the public sector. Placing a market type of human-consumer at the centre of the legal design activity justifies the reproduction of capitalist and oppressive systems by placing the inspiration for new products and services on the human-user-consumer. The adoption of such practices in policy and legal design can be seen as a tool to impose the market values over democracy, justice, and equality.
This book offers a wide array of alternatives and reference points for making sense of legal design. It critically addresses issues of epistemic injustice in the designing of legal services and systems, bringing together the tradition of socio-legal studies in dialogue with new concepts and frameworks from critical design approaches.
Contents
Introduction -From Legal Design to Legal Designing: Opening Up the Field of Possibilities, Joaquín Santuber & Siddharth Peter de Souza (Johannes Kepler University, Austria & Warwick University, UK)
1. Speculation in Legal Design? Ontological Concerns and Critical Alternatives, Michael Doherty (Lancaster University, UK)
2. Broadening the Scope of Legal Design, Jules Rochielle Sievart (Northeastern University, USA)
3. Bridging Paradigms: Comparing the Elements of Human-Centric Design in Legal Design and People-Centered Justice Frameworks, Ebru Metin (Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia), Nina Toivonen (University of Helsinki, Finland) and Jaana Kovalainen (University of Lapland, Finland)
4. Legal Design with Silent Agents: Biomimicry as a Strategy to Understand the Rationales of More-than-Human in Legal Design, Nina Toivonen (University of Helsinki Finland)
5. Does The Legal Design Lexicon Need to be Designed? A Theoretical and Critical Study, Dorra Harrar (Legal.D, Tunisia)
6. The Transformative Role of the Public Sector in the Evolving Practice of Legal Design, Kanan Dhru (The Hague University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands)
7. Weaving an Emergent Future from an Engineering Design Perspective: Law, Science, Engineering, and Indigeneity, Ade Mabogunje (Stanford University, USA)
8. Designing against 'Self-Abandonment': A US Law Student's Reflections on Legal Design, Elena Kuran (Northeastern University, USA)
9. Grounds-up View of Design: Making Meaning of Design in India Through Rooted Legal Design Interventions, Bhawna Parmar (Barabar Design, India)
10. Activating Imagination to Promote Epistemic Justice: Speculations on an Island-Wide Citizens' Assembly for Cyprus, Amanda Perry-Kessaris (Kent University, UK)
11. Legal Design as Movement Lawyering Methodology: Lessons Learned at the New Jersey Legal Design Lab, Abdul Rehman Khan and Hallie Jay Pope (Seton Hall University School of Law, USA)
12. Justice Beyond the User-Experience: Designing for the Sublime in Courts, Pablo Hermansen (School of Design, Pontificia Universidad de Chile, Chile) and Joaquín Santuber (Johannes Kepler University, Austria)
13. Beyond the Problem-Solution Paradigm in Legal Design: Making the Cloud Rain in Bahrain, Bader Alnoaimi (IISJ, Onati, Spain)
14. Can Making a Law be Playful? A Case for Designing for Democratic Deliberation in India, Siddharth Peter de Souza, Varsha Aithala, Siddhi Gupta and Saumya Varma (Justice Adda, India)
