{"id":3961,"date":"2019-02-19T16:13:09","date_gmt":"2019-02-19T16:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/law-news\/?p=3961"},"modified":"2019-10-08T16:01:53","modified_gmt":"2019-10-08T15:01:53","slug":"slsa-award-for-uks-first-workshop-on-legal-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/law-news\/slsa-award-for-uks-first-workshop-on-legal-design\/","title":{"rendered":"SLSA award for UK\u2019s first workshop on Legal Design"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kent Law School Professor Amanda Perry-Kessaris and Emily Allbon from City University Law School have been awarded \u00a31527 by the Socio-Legal Studies Association to hold the UK\u2019s first workshop on legal design.<\/span><\/p>\n

The two-day workshop, to be held at City Law School in 2020, is also the first workshop globally to cover the full spectrum of legal design, including legal practice, activism, policy-making, research and teaching. Professor Perry-Kessaris said: \u2018It\u2019s a capacity-building opportunity for\u00a0legal researchers to understand and engage, intellectually and physically,\u00a0with legal design; so that\u00a0they are better able to use, critique and support it.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n

Legal design is a nascent field of thinking and practice which seeks to discover what design can do for law. Professor Perry-Kessaris says there is growing evidence to support the proposition that \u201cdesignerly ways\u201d can directly improve legal communications.<\/span><\/p>\n

A recent example was Professor Perry-Kessaris\u2019s Socio-Legal Model-Making project<\/span><\/a> which saw over 100 legal researchers experimenting with individual and collaborative model-making in relation to their ongoing research projects.<\/span><\/p>\n

Professor Perry-Kessaris said: \u2018Legal design is quietly becoming a standard feature of lawyering, and it is important that members of the legal community are able to meet on their own, sociologically-informed and critical, terms.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n

Professor Perry-Kessaris<\/a><\/span> specialises in empirically grounded, theoretically informed, cross-disciplinary approaches to law. In addition to qualifications in law, she has an MA in Visual Communication and Graphic Design. She blogs at econosociolegal.wordpress.com<\/span><\/a>, tweets @aperrykessaris<\/span><\/a> and publishes videos on Vimeo<\/span><\/a>.<\/span> She has previously co-organised a range of Kent Law School events around the theme of legal design \u2013 including the\u00a0Pop-up Museum of Legal Objects<\/span><\/a> in 2017 and a workshop on \u2018Making Sociolegal Research Visible and Tangible\u2019<\/span><\/a> in 2018.\u00a0<\/span>Her article \u2018Legal Design for Practice, Activism, Policy and Research<\/a>‘ is forthcoming in the\u00a0Journal of Law and Society<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Emily Allbon<\/a><\/span> is a Senior Lecturer and Director of Mooting at City Law School. She is the creator of the award-winning lawbore<\/span><\/a> website and hosted the first Legal Design Sprint<\/span><\/a> in the UK in 2018, a review<\/span><\/a> of which is posted on her blog.<\/span><\/p>\n