Stanford Launches Design Lab to Make Law More Accessible

Stanford University Law School launched a new initiative this month, the Legal Design Lab , with a mission to develop new user-friendly models of legal services and train law students in “human-centered legal design.”

Margaret Hagan — a recent graduate of Stanford Law School and a lecturer at Stanford’s Institute of Design — will lead a group of law students on projects intended to make the law more accessible to lay people, including connecting them with Internet-based legal help.

Some projects include setting up easily-understood signs in courtrooms and creating a tool that lets courts and service providers send text messages to ...