Legal design for practice, activism, policy and research

This paper offers an integrated introduction to how, conceptually, to think about what design

assess it. It begins by highlighting three lawyerly concerns: the need to communicate; the

imaginative. Next the paper highlights three features of designerly ways: a commitment to

tangible. It is proposed that designerly ways can directly improve lawyerly communication;

once practical, critical and imaginative. The paper then provides examples of legal design in

research. Emphasis is placed throughout on the need for a critical approach to legal

avoiding, exposing and remedying biases and inequalities. In that spirit, the paper concludes

with an assessment of some of the risks associated with legal design.