In this presentation I argue that legal design could be more sociolegal—that is, it could systematically and explicitly acknowleged the social nature and potential of legal design.
Furthermore, I argue that legal design should be more sociolegal firstly, because legal design would benefit from sociolegal conceptual frameworks, empirical methods and data, as well as normative direction; and secondly, because legal designers would then be better placed to contribute interdisciplinary research, and to enhancing its impact in the wider world.
I draw on the contract design work of Rob Waller, Jenny Waller, Helena Haapio, Gary Crag and Sandi Morrisseau (about which you can hear more on this episode of the Legal Design Podcast) and of the Doughnut Economics Action Lab.
You can read the full paper here.
Amanda Perry-Kessaris 