Program
Let’s talk about legal design!
Organizers
Legal Design & Code Lab, Prof. Aurélia Tamò Larrieux, University of Lausanne
Digital Law Center (DLC), Prof. Yaniv Benhamou, University of Geneva
A series of talks with legal design experts
Legal design is an innovative approach that blends law, human-centered design, and user experience to make legal systems clearer, more interactive, and easier to understand. It focuses on simplifying legal communication making the law work for people—not against them.
Why does legal design matter? Most people struggle to understand legal documents, and many individuals are unaware of their rights. Legal complexity creates barriers to justice, compliance, and participation. Legal design wants to tackle these hurdles by making legal systems more accessible through participatory projects, textual and visual simplification, and interactive tools. By transforming legal documents into more accessible and engaging formats, legal design helps bridge the gap between law and users. Building upon concrete and successful legal design projects, new research leveraging rule-based legal automation and machine learning approaches are further enhancing the field of legal design.
In this series of talks with experts in various legal design approaches, we will explore the principles of legal design thinking, learn from concrete use cases, and discover ways to simplify legal processes for citizens without losing precision.
Join this series if you are interested in uncovering the role of design and technology in enhancing legal accessibility and empowering users.
- First session: Breaking the Complexity Curse: The Legal Design Revolution, Helena Haapio, Lexpert; Ebru Metin, TalTech, Tuesday, May 13th 2025, 3 - 4:15 pm
- Second session: Legal design and consent requirements: How to turn theory into practice, Audrey Pety, CNIL-LINC, Tuesday, June 24th 2025, 12 - 13:15 pm
- Third session: Social acceptability of legal design and automation, Clement Guitton, University of St. Gallen, Controlled languages, Galileo Sartor, Swansea University Wednesday, July 2nd 2025, 3 - 4:15 pm
- Fourth session: JusticeBot and other tools to make law better for laypeople, Hannes Westermann, Maastricht University, Tuesday, September 2nd 2025, 3 - 4:15 pm
- Fifth session: Design Without Designers? The Case of Legal Design, Anthony Masure, HEAD, Genève, Friday, October 10th 2025, 3 - 4:15 pm
- Sixth session: Subject tbc, Arianna Rossi, LIDER Lab, Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies (Pisa, IT), Tuesday, November 4th 2025, 3 - 4:15 pm
Admissions and registration
Online participation
Participation to the Let's Talk About Legal Design is free of charge but registration is mandatory.
The deadline to apply is systematically the day preceding the session at 12:00 pm (CET; Swiss Time).
Registration:
First session: Tuesday, May 13th 2025, 3 - 4:15 pm : HERE
Second session: Tuesday, June 24th 2025, 12 - 1:15 pm : HERE
Third session: Wednesday, July 2nd 2025, 3 - 4:15 pm : HERE.
Fourth session: Tuesday, September 2nd 2025, 3 - 4:15 pm : HERE.
Fifth session: Friday, October 10th 2025, 3 - 4:15 pm : HERE.
Sixth session: Tuesday, November 4th 2025, 3 - 4:15 pm : HERE.
