Let's Talk About Legal Design

 

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. 

Coming up next:

July 2nd 2025: Clement Guitton, University of St. Gallen, Social acceptability of legal design and automation.

September 2nd 2025: Hannes Westermann, Maastricht University.

October 10th 2025: Anthony Masure, HEAD, Genève, Design Without Designers? The Case of Legal Design.