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22 - Legal Design Could and Should Be More Sociolegal

from IV - Where Legal Design Goes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 December 2024

By
Amanda Perry-Kessaris
Edited by
Miso Kim ,
Dan Jackson  and
Jules Rochielle Sievert
Miso Kim
Affiliation:
Northeastern University, Boston
Dan Jackson
Affiliation:
Northeastern University, Boston
Jules Rochielle Sievert
Affiliation:
Northeastern University, Boston
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Summary

Legal design could and should be more sociolegal. Sociolegal research can offer conceptual frameworks, empirical methods and data, and normative direction to legal design. At the same time, designerly methods can enhance the abilities of sociolegal researchers to make and communicate a sense of things to, with and for themselves, academics in other disciplines, and the wider world. So, if legal designers were to engage more deeply and systematically with sociolegal research and researchers, benefits could flow to legal design, to cross-disciplinary research, and to the wider world.

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legal designsociolegalempirical methodscross-disciplinarity
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Legal Design
Dignifying People in Legal Systems
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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