Design in Legal Education

A visually rich, experience-led collection
exploring what design can do for legal education.

A visually rich, experience-led collection exploring what design can do for legal education.

In recent decades design has increasingly come to be understood as a resource to improve other fields of public, private and civil society practice. Today legal design – that is, the application of design-based methods to legal practice – is increasingly embedded in lawyering across the world.

This new publication brings together experts from multiple disciplines, professions and jurisdictions to reflect upon how designerly mindsets, processes and strategies can enhance teaching and learning across higher education, public legal information and legal practice. It will be of interest and use to those teaching and learning in any and all of those fields.

A conversation between the editors

Emily Allbon

Emily Allbon

Associate Professor of Law
City Law School
Amanda Perry-Kessaris

Amanda Perry-Kessaris

Professor of Law
Kent Law School

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Psychologically-Informed Design in Legal Education

by Sarah Stein Lubrano

This chapter explores how we might draw on insights from psychology as we redesign our legal education and communication practices. It focuses on targeting affective context, paying attention to cognitive overlap and making communication accessible.

Sarah Stein Lubrano is a learning designer, content strategist, and researcher at Oxford studying political theory and its relationship to psychology. She teaches learning design and content strategy to people in a variety of fields. Previously she worked as the Head of Content at The School of Life. In earlier lives, she made films, and worked as a prison tutor, student welfare officer, and obituary writer.

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