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The SikhCoalition has put together an ingenious app out to crowdsource reports of discrimination at airports and on airlines. If the government and companies won’t release information about…
The Immigration Legal Resource Center (ILRC) has put out a sketched-out (at least in part) guide for a young non-citizen audience — trying to equip them with some…
I’ve been searching around for pre-college legal curriculum. When is law taught to young people in America, other than in pre-law classes in university? I took a Civics…
I am writing a paper on ways to bring good design to create new models of access to justice. I have been scouting out some such threads, to…
Georgetown Law is holding its 2nd ‘Iron Tech’ Lawyer competition, in which students who took a semester seminar –“Technology, Innovation & Law Practice: An Experiential Seminar” — by…
I just came across the company TrueOffice that is putting together (inspiring!) games for businesses to train their employees on ‘compliance’ issues. Think sexual harassment, information security, or…
A short cartoon I made while listening to Professor Nora Engstrom’s talk on Legal Clinics & attorney advertising at Stanford Law School last month.
Law as an app – technology in legal education » VoxPopuLII. Christine Kirchberger & Pam Storr offer a great overview of where ‘apps’ (as conceived of now —…
I went to InfoCamp today at Berkeley with the intention of soaking up best practices and inventive ideas from User Experience Designers and Information Junkies at the School…
I have heard from a few people that they want an Angie’s List for Lawyers — a service they are willing to pay for, to get quality, real,…
What does it actually mean to think like a lawyer? If we think of building tech to teach, simulate, or enhance these skills, its worthwhile to discern the…
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
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.
Sri Lankan tech researcher & TED fellow Sanjana Hattotuwa has laid out some of the basic capabilities that mobile phones in the field can be used in dispute…
A paper on “An Asian Perspective on Online Mediation” puts forward an agenda for making all the advances made in Online Dispute Resolution (ODR) transition to mobile devices. …
A major problem in governance is the spread of misinformation and rumors. Sometimes these result from concerted campaigns by political actors, to manipulate politicians with rumors meant to…
The Internet Bar Organization has fielded a proposed design, the Internet Silk Road Initiative, that would use online and mobile tech to provide access to justice & dispute…
http://popplet.com/app/#/535625 This is my law/design class’ brainstorm on problems refugees & the UNHCR face in communication. There are many challenges, especially in opening more reliable, trustworthy, & resonant…
