The Socio-Politics of Legal Design and Its Epistemic Consequences.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Souza, Siddharth Peter de.

Series:

Oñati International Series in Law and Society Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Critical legal studies.

Justice, Administration of.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (321 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2026.

Summary:

Brings together diverse perspectives from the fields of law, justice, and design to interrogate the emergence of vocabularies and methods of legal design and unpack their epistemic consequences.

Contents:

Intro

Acknowledgements

Contents

Notes on Contributors

List of Illustrations

From Legal Design to Legal Designing: Opening Up the Field of Possibilities

Introduction

Legal Designing: Many Faces, Many Windows

From Legal Design to Legal Designing

Socio-Political Commitments for Legal Designing

References

1. Speculation in Legal Design? Ontological Concerns and Critical Alternatives

Speculative Critical Design

Rationale for Development of the SCD Concept

The Ontology of SCD

SCD Methods

SCD and Effectiveness

Conclusion

2. Broadening the Scope of Legal Design

Challenging the Notion of the End User

Brief Case Study: East Boston Spatial Justice Lab

Design Exercise for the Reader

3. Bridging Paradigms: Comparing the Elements of Human-Centred Design in Legal Design and People-Centred Justice Frameworks

A Brief on HCD

Mapping the Elements of HCD in Legal Design and PCJ Frameworks

Discussion

4. Legal Design with Silent Agents: Biomimicry as a Strategy to Understand the Rationales of More-than-Human in Legal Design

Biomimicry as a Design Approach

Searching for Bio-Inclusive Design Inspiration for Law

5. Does the Legal Design Lexicon Need to be Designed? A Theoretical and Critical Study

The Specific Nature of the Legal Design Lexicon: A Mosaic of Concepts

The Accessibility of the Legal Design Lexicon from the Point of View of Legal Design Practitioners and Their Users: A Practical Study

The Practice of Legal Design in the African and Arabian Regions: Challenges and Obstacles

References.

6. The Transformative Role of the Public Sector in the Evolving Practice of Legal Design

Modern Legal Systems

Setting the Stage for Legal Design

The Need for Scaling Up

Achieving Scale Through Collaboration

Barriers to Scale

7. Weaving an Emergent Future from an Engineering Design Perspective: Law, Science, Engineering, and Indigeneity

Law

Science

Engineering

Indigeneity

8. Designing against 'Self-Abandonment': A US Law Student's Reflections on Legal Design

U.S. Legal Education and Whittling Down the Self

Redesigning the Means and Ends of Law School

Conclusion: Procedure Is Substantive

9. Grounds-up View of Design: Making Meaning of Design in India Through Rooted Legal Design Interventions

Legal Design: The Intersection

Design Thinking and the Indian Context

Design Justice: A Just Conceptual Framework

Case Study: Zenith - Lessons on the Importance of Long-Term Engagement and Community Empowerment

10. Activating Imagination to Promote Epistemic Justice: Speculations on an Island-Wide Citizens' Assembly for Cyprus

Citizens ' Assemblies

The Cyprus Problem

A Citizens ' Assembly for Cyprus ?

Designing for Epistemic Justice in Citizens ' Assemblies

Activating Imagination in the Context of a Citizen ' s Assembly for Cyprus

11. Legal Design as Movement Lawyering Methodology: Lessons Learned at the New Jersey Legal Design Lab

Democracy, Housing, and Movement Lawyering

Learning from Legal Design ' s Historical Roots

12. Justice Beyond the User-Experience: Designing for the Sublime in Courts

Introduction.

Problematising: What Are the Scope and Limitations of User-Centred Design ?

Rituals and the Sublime

The Design Research Context

Inspiration

Designing for the Sublime: Justice as a Ritual for Embodied Participation

Final Remarks

13. Beyond the Problem-Solution Paradigm in Legal Design: Making the Cloud Rain in Bahrain

Section I

Section II

Section III

Section IV

Conclusions

14. Can Making a Law be Playful? A Case for Designing for Democratic Deliberation in India

The Case Context: The Parliament in India, an Institution for the People, and Yet Far from the People

Our Intervention: Designing Sabha

Index.

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ISBN:

9781509990078

OCLC:

1593998183