Book contents
- Legal Design
- Legal Design
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures and Tables
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- I Why Legal Design
- 1 Dignifying Law in Design
- 2 Dignifying Design in Law
- 3 Dignifying Imagination in Legal Education
- II What Legal Design Can Do
- III How Legal Design Works
- IV Where Legal Design Goes
- Conclusion
- Index
- References
2 - Dignifying Design in Law
from I - Why Legal Design
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 December 2024
- Legal Design
- Legal Design
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures and Tables
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- I Why Legal Design
- 1 Dignifying Law in Design
- 2 Dignifying Design in Law
- 3 Dignifying Imagination in Legal Education
- II What Legal Design Can Do
- III How Legal Design Works
- IV Where Legal Design Goes
- Conclusion
- Index
- References
Summary
This chapter posits that the emerging methods, perspectives, and goals of legal design fit squarely within the history of law. It offers a quick sketch of the history of the development of the rule of law over the last 4,000 years, which sets the stage for an examination of that history as a design history – humanity’s collective work over four millennia of ideating, prototyping, testing, and refining the systems of rules we use to live collectively. It then makes a few points about the benefits of design as design – its relative speed, flexibility, and responsiveness to making things that are useful to people. It will then introduce the concept of “longtermerism,” which refers to a concept or ideology that emphasizes the importance of long-term thinking and decision-making in various aspects of life. The chapter wraps things up with a note of urgency and optimism based on the argument that no human should be denied the benefit of the rule of law.
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- Legal DesignDignifying People in Legal Systems, pp. 32 - 43Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024