What might design do for clinical legal education?

https://vimeo.com/812755826 Presentation delivered by Emily Allbon and Amanda Perry-Kessaris to the Clinical Legal Education Organisation (CLEO) on 2 December 2022.  Emily Allbon and I spoke to members of the Clinical Legal Education Organisation (CLEO) about how designers ways might contribute to clinical legal education. We highlighted two interrelated ways in which design-based methods might enhance… Continue reading What might design do for clinical legal education?

Design in legal education: an edited collection

Design in Legal Education (Routledge 2022), co-edited by Emily Allbon and Amanda Perry-Kessaris, is a visually rich, experience-led collection exploring what design can do for legal education. In recent decades design has increasingly come to be under- stood as a resource to improve other fields of public, private and civil society practice; and legal design—that… Continue reading Design in legal education: an edited collection

Doing sociolegal research in design mode: a short monograph

Perry-Kessaris, A. Doing Sociolegal Research in Design Mode (Routledge, 2021) is a short monograph produced with the support of a Socio-Legal Studies Association field work grant and a Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship (RF-2019-045). Download Chapter 1: Towards a proposition (Author Manuscript) Presentations https://vimeo.com/showcase/8395458 Overview This book is the first to explore what design can do… Continue reading Doing sociolegal research in design mode: a short monograph

Work in progress: Doing socio-legal research in design mode

How might design enhance our understanding of, and our ability to communicate about, law as a social phenomenon? At what cost?  Mindsets, tools and processes from design such as visualisation, sprints and prototyping are increasingly identified as distinctive and useful; and adopted across legal fields from practice to activism to policy-making (Perry-Kessaris 2019).  With the… Continue reading Work in progress: Doing socio-legal research in design mode