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
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.
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.
One case — Muslim Community Ass’n of Ann Arbor v. Ashcroft — brought this issue to US federal courts in 2003. Muslim and Arab organizations in Michigan sued…
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…
Some observations on refugee redesign, with problems and insights about how tech and design could help their communication.
I am trying to compile some best practices of dispute resolution mechanisms inside refugee communities. I’ve found some good leads, including this write-up of design interventions in a…
Frank Smyth at the Committee to Protect Journalists writes about a chat tool, Cryptocat, developed with cryptography protections to give Ease of Use & Strong Protections to those…
One possible redesign of refugee camps from Odin Wright, built around the concept of ancient fortresses. The main motivation is protection from outside incursion, not necessarily welfare of…
Another talking head, this time on politicians vs. engineers, re: control of the Internet, drawn at Stanford Law School.
In July 2007, researcher Dawinder S. Sidhu commissioned the University of Oklahoma’s Public Opinion Learning Laboratory (UOPOLL) to conduct a survey that investigated “if and to what extent…
In response to the NYPD’s massive surveillance campaign against Muslims on the East Coast, a wonderful Tumblr with people voluntarily mapping & surveilling themselves. A project from CUNY’s…
an excerpt from an article by Jacqueline Novogratz, on the Huffington Post, highlighting some good redesign elements at a Pakistani refugee camp: We drive north along the old…
I just made a second law school quiz app — this time on the specific topic of Civil Procedure. It’s Law School Dojo: Civ Pro, now out on…
I have recently begun to play around with coding apps, and for my first real venture, I decided to code up a quiz app with all the things…