Hardback
Legal Design
Integrating Business, Design and Legal Thinking with Technology
9781839107252 Edward Elgar Publishing
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.
More Information
Critical Acclaim
Contributors
Contents
More Information
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.
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.
Critical Acclaim
‘Legal Design: Integrating Business, Design and Legal Thinking with Technology is a valuable addition to the literature. Whether as a broad introduction to legal design principles and methodologies, a place to be inspired by case studies and projects or as a more detailed examination of its place within the academy, it is a text that will be of interest to anybody with a curiosity about how law and design can function together to make the world a better place.’
– Emily Allbon, The Edinburgh Law Review
''Filled with actionable insights from the superstars of legal design around the world, this book will become a go-to resource for legal innovators and inspire a new breed of proactive lawyers to keep clients at the heart of their work.''
– Verity White, Checklist Legal, Australia
‘This book is a thoughtful exploration of legal design, a novel human-centred paradigm for problem-solving and innovation in the legal space. The contributions range across domains – access to justice, contracts, adjudication, legal education, and more. The case studies show how legal design can make abstract legal rules and processes come to life, empowering their end-users. It is an essential reading for those interested in understanding the many faces of legal design, both from a theoretical and practical perspective.’
– Stefania Passera, Passera Design and University of Vaasa, Finland
‘Legal Design is required reading for practitioners and academics interested in the latest advances in the field. The book’s amazing breadth of coverage includes chapters on policy making, cultural conflict, intellectual property, consumer protection, tenants’ rights, commercial contracts, judicial decision making, and education. The contributors are well-known experts in the field who provide in-depth coverage of each topic. The book provides special value by combining legal design theory with many practical examples, including contract design patterns, comic contracts, visual legal advice templates and knowledge graphs.’
– George Siedel, University of Michigan, US
– Emily Allbon, The Edinburgh Law Review
''Filled with actionable insights from the superstars of legal design around the world, this book will become a go-to resource for legal innovators and inspire a new breed of proactive lawyers to keep clients at the heart of their work.''
– Verity White, Checklist Legal, Australia
‘This book is a thoughtful exploration of legal design, a novel human-centred paradigm for problem-solving and innovation in the legal space. The contributions range across domains – access to justice, contracts, adjudication, legal education, and more. The case studies show how legal design can make abstract legal rules and processes come to life, empowering their end-users. It is an essential reading for those interested in understanding the many faces of legal design, both from a theoretical and practical perspective.’
– Stefania Passera, Passera Design and University of Vaasa, Finland
‘Legal Design is required reading for practitioners and academics interested in the latest advances in the field. The book’s amazing breadth of coverage includes chapters on policy making, cultural conflict, intellectual property, consumer protection, tenants’ rights, commercial contracts, judicial decision making, and education. The contributors are well-known experts in the field who provide in-depth coverage of each topic. The book provides special value by combining legal design theory with many practical examples, including contract design patterns, comic contracts, visual legal advice templates and knowledge graphs.’
– George Siedel, University of Michigan, US
Contributors
Contributors: Rosa María Ballardini, Thomas D. Barton, Mariana Bernal Fandiño, Georges Clement, Marcelo Corrales Compagnucci, Michael Doherty, Helena Haapio, Margaret Hagan, Heidi Härkönen, Konsta Huovinen, Iiris Kestilä, Joasia Luzak, Sanna Niinikoski, Nina Toivonen, Ashley Treni, Geneviève Vanderstichele
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
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
