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Dispatches from practitioners & researchers about how to design a better, human-centered legal system
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Interviewing Legal Experts on the Quality of AI Answers
Interviewing Legal Experts on the Quality of AI Answers
How do we know if AI answers to people’s problems are good or bad? We’re talking to front-line experts to build quality audits &…
Margaret Hagan
Aug 22
Search Audit 2023 and the AI Online Legal Information Assessment Tool
Search Audit 2023 and the AI Online Legal Information Assessment Tool
Findings from the annual Search Audit and the introduction of the new AI Online Legal Information Assessment Tool
Nóra Al Haider
Jul 28
AI and A2J webinar series: Hannes Westermann — The Hammer and the Carpenter
AI and A2J webinar series: Hannes Westermann — The Hammer and the Carpenter
The AI & A2J webinar series offers an in-depth look at projects by legal experts and technologists in the AI & A2J space.
Nóra Al Haider
Jun 17
User Research Report into AI for Access to Justice: Legal Question & Answers
User Research Report into AI for Access to Justice: Legal Question & Answers
A report from the students in the Autumn 2023 Stanford Law/d.school class “AI for Legal Help”, 809E.
Margaret Hagan
Mar 20
Bringing an AI & Access to Justice Community Together
Bringing an AI & Access to Justice Community Together
What we learned about at the LSC-ITC conference of civil justice professionals, about the state of AI & A2J
Margaret Hagan
Feb 8
AI & The Stanford Legal Design Lab
AI & The Stanford Legal Design Lab
An interview with Margaret Hagan about the future of AI and A2J
Nóra Al Haider
Jan 25
AI Platforms & Privacy Protection through Legal Design
AI Platforms & Privacy Protection through Legal Design
This past week, I had the privilege of attending the State of Privacy event in Rome, with policy, technical, and research leaders from…
Margaret Hagan
Sep 20, 2023
Opportunities & Risks for AI, Legal Help, and Access to Justice
Opportunities & Risks for AI, Legal Help, and Access to Justice
How might AI help more people find & use their legal rights? And what risks of harm should we plan for? Here are maps we can plan around.
Margaret Hagan
Jun 28, 2023
Better Disclosure Design through Data-Driven Risk Communication
Better Disclosure Design through Data-Driven Risk Communication
Reimagining How Lawyers Communicate Contract Terms & Insurance Policies to the Public
Margaret Hagan
Jun 13, 2023
Design Standards for Court & Government Forms
Design Standards for Court & Government Forms
A Human-Centered Rubric to Evaluate a Form
Margaret Hagan
Mar 2, 2023
Architecture and Law: Courtyards as starting points of resistance
Architecture and Law: Courtyards as starting points of resistance
A reflection on the intersection of architecture and law and my assignment for the Harvard GSD design discovery course.
Nóra Al Haider
Jan 31, 2023
Using Schema.org to Help People Find Legal Aid
Using Schema.org to Help People Find Legal Aid
This Medium piece documents an intervention aimed at improving access to justice outreach. We used a technical intervention — standardized…
Nóra Al Haider
Jan 30, 2023
The State of Eviction Prevention Efforts
The State of Eviction Prevention Efforts
Lessons Learned from the Eviction Prevention Learning Lab cohort
Margaret Hagan
Dec 12, 2022
AI & Online Legal Information
AI & Online Legal Information
Could ChatGPT (the openAI chat model) help to increase access to online legal information?
Nóra Al Haider
Dec 1, 2022
Why doesn’t every new justice reform policy come with a community navigator program?
Why doesn’t every new justice reform policy come with a community navigator program?
When groups work to change the law, often they struggle to get public awareness or engagement. Community navigators can help.
Margaret Hagan
Dec 1, 2022
New Spaces of Justice: A Tribute
New Spaces of Justice: A Tribute
A personal recap and tribute to Virgil Abloh and our collaboration on New Spaces of Justice
Nóra Al Haider
Sep 14, 2022
An International R&D Community for Better Justice Innovations
An International R&D Community for Better Justice Innovations
Building a network that’s researching, designing, and evaluating what works to increase access to justice
Margaret Hagan
Aug 16, 2022
How Can Text Messages Help Prevent Evictions?
How Can Text Messages Help Prevent Evictions?
SMS Strategies from the Eviction Prevention Learning Lab
Sarah Verschoor
Aug 11, 2022
How do you design a user-friendly court form?
How do you design a user-friendly court form?
(Even if we should be moving away from forms altogether…)
Margaret Hagan
Jun 29, 2022
What are the Barriers Tenants Face to Accessing Eviction Prevention Help?
What are the Barriers Tenants Face to Accessing Eviction Prevention Help?
A design research report from Stanford’s Justice By Design: Eviction class in Winter 2022
Margaret Hagan
Jun 14, 2022
Data-Driven Legal Help
Data-Driven Legal Help
A Digital Legal Needs analysis of an online legal clinic to predict seasonal trends in people’s legal needs
Margaret Hagan
May 16, 2022
Strategies for better language access in legal help
Strategies for better language access in legal help
How can more legal help providers get more of their information & guidance into more languages?
Margaret Hagan
May 13, 2022
There Has To Be A Better Way Than This
There Has To Be A Better Way Than This
How could computable contracts improve people’s health insurance contracting? Our Stanford Law class researched new opportunities for this.
Margaret Hagan
Apr 15, 2022
Making Good Legal Design the Law
Making Good Legal Design the Law
The White House has newly established human-centered design of government services as an official policy. And NYC is considering the same…
Margaret Hagan
Jan 13, 2022
Legal Design Lab’s 2021 Year in Review
Legal Design Lab’s 2021 Year in Review
Greetings from the Legal Design Lab! Our team has been busy throughout this year on both emergency projects and long-standing research &…
Margaret Hagan
Dec 22, 2021
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