Drawing on work from Macquarie University’s Tech4Justice Lab and its five-year partnership with the National Justice Project to show how to weave design-thinking approaches into legal education. Legal design and leadership skills training by Tech4Justice develops students that employers increasingly value. As part of the program, students use no-code tools to build chatbots that guide users through the process of making discrimination complaints, with each chatbot forming part of a larger strategy to make complaint processes more accessible (see hearmeout.org.au).
The authors highlight three distinctive teaching features that set Tech4Justice apart from other legal design programs: an ongoing focus on a single, real-world problem; a blended teaching model; and a structure that encourages student leadership. Using the case study and existing scholarship, they propose a comprehensive framework outlining the core knowledge and capabilities required of legal designers—and, by extension, what law schools need to teach. They conclude by considering what this means for legal education more broadly, suggesting that the lessons from Tech4Justice apply well beyond the legal design context.
Source: Legal Design Journal
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