Full Description
This innovative book proposes new theories on how the legal system can be made more comprehensible, usable and empowering for people through the use of design principles. Utilising key case studies and providing real-world examples of legal innovation, the book moves beyond discussion to action. It offers a rich set of examples, demonstrating how various design methods, including information, service, product and policy design, can be leveraged within research and practice.
Providing a forward-thinking outlook, this book presents an in-depth examination of how a human-centred, visual and participatory design approach can improve legal services and outcomes. Spanning numerous fields of legal practice, from education, housing and contracts to intellectual property, it highlights how visuals, information design and better communication can help prevent and solve legal problems. Chapters explore a new vision of lawyering and its potential to encompass a more creative and collaborative approach to legal practice.
Legal Design will be of benefit to students and scholars seeking an up-to-date analysis of current trends related to legal design thinking and execution. It will also be a key resource for legal practitioners, policy-makers, government officials and business professionals looking to deepen their understanding of the field and improve their own design tools.
Contents
Contents:
Preface x
1 A new attitude to law's empire: the potentialities of legal design 1
Michael Doherty, Marcelo Corrales Compagnucci,
Helena Haapio and Margaret Hagan
2 Prototyping for policy 9
Margaret Hagan
3 The relationship between legal and design cultures: tension
and resolution 32
Michael Doherty
4 Legal design for the common good: proactive legal care by design 56
Helena Haapio, Thomas D Barton and Marcelo Corrales
Compagnucci
5 Intellectual property rights and indigenous dress heritage:
towards more social planning types of practices via
user-centric approaches 81
Rosa María Ballardini, Heidi Härkönen and Iiris Kestilä
6 Tailor-made consumer protection: personalisation's impact
on the granularity of consumer information 105
Joasia Luzak
7 Co-designing digital tools for 21st-century tenant organizing 130
Ashley Treni and Georges Clement
8 Knowledge graphs as an example of legal design to model
legal analytics for adjudication with respect for the rule of law 152
Geneviève Vanderstichele
9 Better commercial contracts with the application of
functional contracting and legal design 171
Konsta Huovinen
10 Legal design in judicial decisions: Colombian case study 198
Mariana Bernal Fandiño
11 Legal design in education: ways of teaching and the role of
different disciplines in building legal design competence 215
Sanna Niinikoski and Nina Toivonen
Index
