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The future of the gun
The author believes that \"potential future developments in gun technology could change the world. However, [what he sees as] the radical anti-gun lobby stands between innovation and the American people ... and ... [threatens] to stop progress in its tracks\"--Amazon.com.
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Law as a Design Science
This Article advocates for conceptualizing law as a design science, with a comprehensive approach that integrates formal, explanatory, and design dimensions of legal knowledge. By embracing the empirical aspects of legal scholarship, this perspective challenges the traditional image of lawyers as solely reliant on linguistic constructs. Instead, it positions them as social engineers capable of shaping legal norms and interpretations in alignment with societal needs. Through analysis and illustration of its application in diverse factual contexts, the Article underscores the necessity for this evolution in contemporary legal scholarship, particularly as teleological interpretation gains prominence in legal practice.
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DESIGNING FOR LEGAL PRACTITIONERS: LESSONS LEARNED FROM LEGAL TECH DEVELOPMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION
Recently, the design and digitalisation approaches have become increasingly utilised in the legal context, typically under the names of legal design and legal tech. One of their goals is to help legal practitioners be more efficient and to provide better quality and more comprehensive legal services. Also, given that both movements rely heavily on participatory and co-design, they will require increased support not only from design practitioners but also from design researchers and educators. Therefore, this paper investigates, from a design research viewpoint, the opportunities and challenges of developing and implementing legal tech, with a particular focus on legal practitioners. It reports on four cases of designing legal tech solutions and their implementation in a law firm. The main insights are related to the importance of value perception through participatory and co-design, the need for efficient and effective testing methodologies, and the opportunity to test a wide range of design methods and tools in the legal context. The paper also complements the legal design and legal tech literature with additional arguments on why designing in the legal context is challenging compared to designing in other domains.
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Making the ‘constitutive idea’ available in designerly ways
The constitutive idea centres on the proposition that, as a matter of social fact, law and wider social life each make up and, over time, dynamically shape, the other. This paper argues that we can draw upon designerly ways to make that the constitutive idea more available to scholars, as well as to the wider world. It first highlights the empirical, conceptual and normative dimensions of the constitutive idea. Next it introduces designerly ways, and some examples of how they have already been used at the intersections of legal and economic life. Finally, it identifies three specific problems (one empirical, one conceptual and one normative) arising out of scholarship that attends to the constitutive idea, and explains how we might adapt existing designerly practices to address them.
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Intersemiotic Legal Translation: Semiotic Pluralism in Normative Drafting
The expression “intersemiotic legal translation” refers to all forms of legal translation that use at least two different semiotic codes, of which at least one is not verbal. The article will analyze four different conceptions of intersemiotic translation by highlighting the different potential applications in the legal field, as well as the limitations related to this form of translation. The concept of “intersemiotic legal translation” will be examined as a species of the genus “legal translation”, and will be framed according to a typology consisting of six types of legal translation that will take both its semiotic and its legal dimensions into account.
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Legal design and access to justice: a case study on child support payments in Chile
The Chilean family court system is facing a growing challenge with child support payment arrears, a situation that burdens judicial resources and severely affects families, especially those facing socioeconomic hardships. In response, the law and design students at Adolfo Ibáñez University initiated a collaborative project grounded in legal design and access to principles of justice. Their goal was to create innovative, user-centric solutions aimed at simplifying the child support payment process and improve its accessibility for all parties involved. This article details the methodology adopted in the course of the project, presents its findings and highlights the transformative potential of the solutions developed. These offer actionable insights for improving family court operations in the best interests of users of family court and contribute to professional education, demonstrating the value of integrating interdisciplinary and project-based learning opportunities within law school curricula.
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The Spread of Legal Tech Solutionism and the Need for Legal Design
This paper introduces the notion of legal tech solutionism and argues for how in an age where the development of legal tech is seen as a panacea for all ills it is important to evaluate the use and lifecycle of the technology before introducing it as a solution to the complex and structural problems that plague legal systems. It explores the framework of legal design and argues that legal design provides for a grounded and contextual approach to the development of legal products, content and services. To do this, the paper develops an approach that operates at three levels, including the value of building for usability, the importance of collaboration and community and the value of designing for many worlds to ensure an engagement with a plurality of contexts in the development of legal tech through evolving a grounded approach.
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Legaltech and Lawtech: Global Perspectives, Challenges, and Opportunities
Legaltech refers to the application of new technologies to the world of law, to carry out tasks that, until recently, were performed by lawyers or other personnel working in law firms. From 2015 onwards the Lawtech alternative has emerged. In this work, the concepts of Legaltech and Lawtech have been analyzed by searching the two main scientific information databases such as Scopus and Wed of Science (WoS). There has been a clear trend to use the concept of Legaltech against Lawtech. Six clear research lines have been detected from the whole of the published documents regarding these concepts. These are the related to Computer Science, Justice, Legal profession, Legal design, Law firms, and Legal Education. It is proposed to use the term Legaltech to include all technological advances in the legal field. From the point of view of opportunities, the irruption of Legaltech will be able to offer accurate legal advice to the public, reducing the price of this and on the other hand, analyze large amounts of data that law firms and legal advisors will use to improve their management and increase their productivity. In short, Legaltech and Lawtech are opening up new opportunities in the legal sector encouraging technological innovation, giving greater access to legal services, even try to achieve the goal of universal access to justice.
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