8 Ideas for Better Court wayfinding
For the court user testing I am working on at the Legal Design Lab, we have been testing different ideas to make court process more navigable — getting…
Open Law Laba blog by Margaret Hagan
Open Law Lab
For the court user testing I am working on at the Legal Design Lab, we have been testing different ideas to make court process more navigable — getting…
Yesterday I went to Suffolk Law School’s Clinnovation conference, to talk about how law school labs are growing In number and scope, sometimes in partnership with clinics. Labs…
A few weeks ago, I and a few of my students from Stanford participated as volunteer designers at a weeklong sprint in San Francisco — to improve how…
I am at Brigham Young University’s law school today to listen to their work on innovation and leadership. There is a particular focus on developing leadership and character,…
Jose Fernando Torres, of Universidad Sergio Arboleda in Colombia, spoke at the Legal Design Lab‘s Law + Design Summit last week, and introduced the Hacking 4 A2J design…
Today at the Court Technology Conference, I was lucky to co-present with Dan Jackson of NuLaw Lab of Northeastern University, and Christopher Griffin of the A2J Lab at…
I love teaching. It is such a joy to bring students together to work on real-world challenges, and to do so in a sense of public service along…
For the Hack the JD event this past weekend at Santa Barbara’s College of Law, I was asked to prep a 5 minute elevator pitch of what I…
This past weekend, I spent two very gloriously sunny days in Santa Barbara’s College of Law, in windowless rooms, planning what a better way to educate future lawyers…
I was delighted to receive a gorgeous copy of an illustrated guide to the topics on the New York Bar Exam: The New York Bar Picture Book, by…
The Business Development Bank of Canada has an online simulation game that’s meant for training in Intellectual Property as applied to entrepreneurs. It’s not necessarily built to train lawyers,…
I have been talking with lots of 2Ls, 3Ls, and newly minted JDs over the past year, about what other kinds of career tracks are open to young…
This post was originally published over on Stanford Legal Design Lab’s Medium publication, Legal Design and Innovation. Enjoy! Out of all the workshops, design cycles, and product development…
Here is a short set of notes that are slightly provocative, aimed at both law school leaders and faculty, and the students who are choosing whether and how…
The dean of Osgoode Law School in Toronto, Lorne Sossin, has an interesting new post out about the new roles of law schools in developing problem-solvers and social…
Today I had the pleasure of attending an exploratory meeting for a new initiative — the Global Legal Technology Lab. It’s a network of law schools, legal technology…
Co/Counsel is a project to systematically map what the law is, and do it with a mix of experts and the crowds. It’s done by Kimball Parker, from…
I am working with a team at Carnegie Mellon to create more Usable Privacy Policies. One of the main deliverables we’re creating is a plugin for web browsers,…
I asked my Legal Design students what they think JD students should be learning right now in law schools, to prepare them for their future careers in the…
Rebecca Purdom of Vermont Law / Stanford Medical School examining factors of how law schools could be more innovative.
I’m more than halfway through my first full-quarter class on Legal Design. I’ve built a website for the students, to have all the assignments & resources in one…
Some more thoughts about law school’s role in the changing profession.
A great vision from Harvard professor David Wilkins about how law schools can encourage innovation in the profession.
Stanford professor Deborah Rhode on the future of law schools.
Harvard professor David Wilkins on how law schools need to be adapting, know more about the work and paths of lawyers today.
Today I kick off my first quarter-long class on design thinking for legal services — Intro to Legal Design, cross-listed under the Law School & the d.school. I…
A sketchnote of the start of a talk from Stephanie Kimbro, speaking at Univ. of South Carolina Law School about her research on how games & gamification mechanics…
Igniting Law Teaching is a conference coming up on March 20th that will feature all kinds of legal educators presenting their insights & projects into how the law…
ChartaCourse is a new tool from law professors that unpacks case books, and lays out interactive, visual concept maps of each law course’s content. It’s meant to replace…
I’m very excited for my quarter-long class, Intro to Legal Design, that’s going to be starting in April at Stanford d.school/Law School. Today was a recruiting event at…
Following up from my earlier post about making Visual cover-sheets for academic work, I was pointed toward this video blog from University of Alberta law professor Peter Sankoff.…
As I’ve been writing papers aimed for law journal publication, I keep coming back to my frustration that whatever I write for such a journal, it’s likely to…
Last week, I was a facilitator at a Shaping Davos design thinking workshop at Stanford’s d.school. Several local non-profits had brought some big social impact challenges they’re facing…
CALI, or the Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction, created an online law game Time Trial. The game teaches the player legal history, by having them try to place…
I have been writing up my findings from a recent research study I did, on how lay people use the Internet to respond to legal problems that crop…
Another fun little lightweight law game — this time from Koding Global Virtual Hackathon in December 2014. It’s called the TOS Game — it’s more of a live…
I am on the hunt for law games that are rich, fun, and adaptable to many different ways of learning/practicing law. After I started developing my game Law…
Communication professor Lien Tran of the Univ. of Miami has developed an offline game for users of the US immigration system — called Toma el Paso, or Make …
Here’s a quick concept design sketch I had made my last year of law school, about how Improv-based education could be integrated into a legal education. At Stanford…
