Laboratory Seminar in Applied and Critical Legal Design
Offers students an opportunity to critically engage with design methods and principles in the development of new solutions and ideas for our legal systems, institutions, and problems. Examines methodologies derived from the fields of product, service, and critical design. Emphasizes hands-on student engagement with structured creative processes, field observations, prototyping, or other methods derived from a diversity of creative disciplines. Students apply these methodologies and skills in the formulation of a response to a timely design question. Students’ exploration of critical design is intended to foster a vision of a future world where everyone is empowered to use the law.
Our Fall 2021 Seminar tasked students with answering the following design question: “How might we equip whistleblowers from diverse backgrounds and privileges to overcome the legal and extra-legal challenges they face when making revelations of wrongdoing known to others?” Explore some of the student ideas below.