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The Socio-Politics of Legal Design and its Epistemic Consequences

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The Socio-Politics of Legal Design and its Epistemic Consequences

Author: Siddharth Peter de Souza; Joaquin Santuber
Publisher: Hart Publishing
ISBN: 9781509990061
Published In: June 2026
Format: Hardback
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This book brings together diverse perspectives from researchers working in the fields of law, justice, and design to interrogate the emergence of vocabularies and methods of legal design and unpack their epistemic consequences.

Legal design has emerged in the last decade as an interdisciplinary practice, at the intersection of law and justice, and initially human-centred design. Despite the short history of legal design as a discipline, its foundations in human-centred design have been questioned. Justifying all sorts of innovation for the universal needs of users is even more problematic for human-centred design due to its large adoption in industry and the public sector. Placing a market type of human-consumer at the centre of the legal design activity justifies the reproduction of capitalist and oppressive systems by placing the inspiration for new products and services on the human-user-consumer. The adoption of such practices in policy and legal design can be seen as a tool to impose the market values over democracy, justice, and equality.

This book offers a wide array of alternatives and reference points for making sense of legal design. It critically addresses issues of epistemic injustice in the designing of legal services and systems, bringing together the tradition of socio-legal studies in dialogue with new concepts and frameworks from critical design approaches.

1. Introduction

Joaquín Santuber & Siddharth Peter de Souza (Johannes Kepler University, Austria & Warwick University, UK)

2. Speculation in Legal Design? Ontological Concerns and Critical Alternatives

Michael Doherty (Lancaster University, UK)

3. Transforming Legal Inquiry and Design through Practice Based Research and Community Engagement

Jules Rochielle Sievart (Northeastern University, USA)

4. Bridging Paradigms: Comparing the Elements of Human-Centric Design in Legal Design and People-Centered Justice Frameworks

Ebru Metin (Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia), Nina Toivonen (University of Helsinki, Finland) and Jaana Kovalainen (University of Lapland, Finland)

5. Legal Design with Silent Agents – Biomimicry as a Strategy to Understand the Rationales of Nonhuman Beings in Legal Design

Nina Toivonen (University of Helsinki Finland)

6. Does The Legal Design Lexicon need to be Designed: A Theoretical and Critical Study

Dorra Harrar (Legal.D, Tunisia)

7. The Transformative Role of the Public Sector in the Evolving Practice of Legal Design

Kanan Dhru (The Hague University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands)

8. Weaving an Emergent Future: Law, Science, Engineering, and Indigeneity

Ade Mabogunje (Stanford University, USA)

9. Neither Objects Nor Materials But Worlds

Sankalp Bhatnagar & Elena Kuran (Northeastern University, USA)

10. A Grounds-Up View of Design: Making Meaning of Design through Rooted Legal Design

Bhawna Parmar (Barabar Design, India)

11. Speculations on an Island Wide Citizens' Assembly for Cyprus

Amanda Perry-Kessaris (Kent University, UK)

12. Legal Design, Democracy, and Collective Sense-Making

Abdul Rehman Khan and Hallie Jay Pope (Seton Hall University School of Law, USA)

13. Democracy and Play

Siddharth Peter de Souza, Varsha Aithala, Siddhi Gupta and Saumya Varma (Justice Adda, India)

14. Justice Beyond the User-Experience: Designing for the Sublime in Courts, Inspired by Courts and Judicial Processes

Pablo Hermansen (School of Design, Pontificia Universidad de Chile, Chile) and Joaquín Santuber (Johannes Kepler University, Austria)

15. Making the Cloud Rain: A 'Law and Political Economy' Reading of Bahrain's 'Cloud First Policy'

Bader Alnoaimi (IISJ, Onati, Spain)

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