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Dispatches from practitioners & researchers about how to design a better, human-centered legal system

The State of Eviction Prevention Efforts

The State of Eviction Prevention Efforts

Lessons Learned from the Eviction Prevention Learning Lab cohort
Go to the profile of Margaret Hagan
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?
Go to the profile of Nóra Al Haider
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.
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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
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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
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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
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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…)
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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
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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
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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?
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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.
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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…
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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 &…
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Margaret Hagan
Dec 22, 2021
Human-Centered Computable Contracts

Human-Centered Computable Contracts

A new class from Stanford Legal Design Lab & CodeX
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Margaret Hagan
Dec 16, 2021
Court Observation Hub

Court Observation Hub

Please wait for the host to start this meeting
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Nóra Al Haider
Oct 21, 2021
How do we measure Access to Justice (and improvements to it)?

How do we measure Access to Justice (and improvements to it)?

A spotlight on Hugh McDonald’s law review piece “Assessing A2J”
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Rachel Wang
Oct 12, 2021
What does a user-centered eviction court summons look like?

What does a user-centered eviction court summons look like?

A redesigned court notice to help tenants participate in the eviction court process
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Margaret Hagan
Sep 14, 2021
Standards, Standards, Standards to advance Justice Innovation

Standards, Standards, Standards to advance Justice Innovation

LIST problem codes are standard ways to describe legal issues. How can you use them to make legal help better?
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Margaret Hagan
Jul 9, 2021
Administrative Burdens & Citizen Experience Design

Administrative Burdens & Citizen Experience Design

How can we create government programs that people actually can use?
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Margaret Hagan
Jun 28, 2021
An Equity Lens on Eviction Prevention

An Equity Lens on Eviction Prevention

Housing justice work that gets to structural inequalities
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Margaret Hagan
Jun 23, 2021
Lessons from the Pandemic on Keeping People Housed in a Crisis and Beyond

Lessons from the Pandemic on Keeping People Housed in a Crisis and Beyond

Notes from a mutli-city eviction prevention cohort
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Margaret Hagan
Mar 30, 2021
Can we get legal aid websites to actually show up when people search for help?

Can we get legal aid websites to actually show up when people search for help?

Schema.org markup to improve public interest search results
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Margaret Hagan
Jan 29, 2021
What can legal learn from medical when it comes to ethical AI?

What can legal learn from medical when it comes to ethical AI?

Can we make an AI for Justice agenda based on what health tech has already done — and learn from equity problems they’ve encountered?
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Margaret Hagan
Jan 27, 2021
An Easy Guide to Creating User Friendly FAQs

An Easy Guide to Creating User Friendly FAQs

By Roda Nour and Katie Yoon
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Katie Yoon
Nov 15, 2020
Public Interest Project (PIP) Hub

Public Interest Project (PIP) Hub

A proposal for a curated platform for social problem-solving and civic technology
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Michael Swerdlow
Sep 23, 2020
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