Ravel Law, visual legal research
Ravel Law (above, presenting at Reinvent Law in Silicon Valley last Friday) is a start-up that grew out of Stanford Law, that is building visual tools for legal…
Open Law Laba blog by Margaret Hagan
Open Law Lab
Ravel Law (above, presenting at Reinvent Law in Silicon Valley last Friday) is a start-up that grew out of Stanford Law, that is building visual tools for legal…
Usable law design from Legal Force, in the quick snapshot handouts it provides passersby at it store in Palo Alto.
At Georgia Tech’s school of architecture, they are investigating the physical design of the courthouse experience.
Here’s an article by Jennifer Smith in the Wall Street Journal on new crops of apps that help clients find and monitor lawyers. It mentions Viewabill (tracking how…
More wonderful insights into how citizens called to be jurors experience the court system in the UK — from the RED project, by the Design Council —read more,…
The Immigration Legal Resource Center in San Francisco provides comic book explanations of common immigration scams and how to avoid them.
Great, rich, human insights into how citizens called to be jurors experience the court system in the UK — from the RED project, by the Design Council —read…
Great, rich user insights about Citizenship and people’s relationships with the government, from the Red – Touching the State project http://www.designcouncil.info/mt/RED/citizenship/
RED was a UK initiative that was operational between 2004 and 2006. It was set up by the Design Council in the UK, to tackle public policy, social,…
FrontlineSMS:Legal Blog: A collection of great observations about how mobile tech is being used to strengthen governance & rule of law around the world. There are some projects…
A USDOJ report on Law Schools’ Access to Justice programs:meaning, what pro bono & public service offerings the schools have. The report allows schools to present what offerings…
A drawing I had made during the Law Without Walls conference, based on a great passing comment…
I am on a design team, working on how to redesign the small claims mediation & family mediation (that now would occur offline, in a court house, in…
Back in 2004, the Legal Services Corporation sponsored a law kiosk for an “online legal service center” on Navajo territory in Arizona, Utah, and New Mexico. Read an…
On legal flow charts… is a post I wrote up over on my drawing blog. I made these both a while back, but I’m thinking of how to…
So I have been building legal quiz apps, for law students & non-lawyers. Now I need feedback, to take them to the next level! If you have the…
from a talk by Alex MacGillivray, general counsel of Twitter from http://razblint.com
Canada — in particular British Columbia — has been the leading light in using online tools for providing dispute resolution to citizens. They have found most success in…
A blog post from Richard Zorza’s rich blog on Access to Justice discusses an issue I am currently working on — whether the Internet is a usable and…
A great article from Slate on Tech being used for Legal Aid & Access to Justice, with lots of specific examples of how SMS and other basic tech…
CanLii is an app out of Toronto that allows for easier searching of Canadian law. It’s an effort to make the legislation more accessible, and hoping that trickles…
The Chicago-Kent School of Law and IIT completed a massive study of how to build better tools for self-represented litigants (pro-se). Their 470+ page write-up includes a variety…
Blake Masters: Pass the CA Bar Exam in 100 Hours blakemasters: I passed the July 2012 California Bar Exam by studying for 100 hours—no more than 5 hours…
An article about how radio technologies are mashed up with SMS tech to allow community members to text into radio programs, to talk back and participate in discussions. …
This slideshow presents the project “Advancement through Interactive Radio”, which details ways for community members — especially women — to broadcast radio programs and talk back to them.…
This article details one youth-radio training effort by US activists, going into camps in Palestine to teach young people how to run their own radio programs. As the…
This report by the UN, entitled To Complain or Not to Complain?, highlights the inabilities and challenges for refugees (and other aid-beneficiaries) who hesitate to report sexual abuse…
Assisted Decision Making from Josh Blackman Here is the presentation from today’s Stanford Law lunch, with law professor Josh Blackman discussing his startup to rival Pacer in distributing…
LawTechCampLondon from tmcgn7 LawTechCampLondon from tmcgn7 A presentation from a member of the VirtualCourthouse.com team, on the current problem of Access to Justice, and looking at how online…
UNHCR Innovation on Prezi, an August 2012 presentation by Chris Earney on how UNHCR and Refugees can use technology to promote social innovation for refugees’ agency & welfare.
UNHCR Innovation on Prezi, an August 2012 presentation by Chris Earney on how UNHCR and Refugees
My design team is exploring how refugees can be given agency + better access to information through radio technology. There are a few current programs that have been…
what to do for a tax break? institute mandatory uniforms at law firms. deductions, deductions, deductions!
The M-Jirga from Colin Rule A presentation by Colin Rule, of Online Dispute Resolution fame, on a concept design for a mobile traditional justice platform. The m-Jirga…
For my excellent class at Stanford Law School on the future of legal technology, I am proposing to build a WebMD for law. My central question is ‘how…
A blog post by solo practitioner Carolyn Elefant detailed her issues with the current legal start ups that supposedly increase ‘access to justice’, but in her estimation are…
A quick sketched brainstorm of ways that UNHCR and Refugees communication channels could be improved, for my Redesigning the Refugee Experience class.
