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Redesigning Massachusetts Courts: Targeted Interventions

This new law school course joins law students with students from a design discipline such as architecture, service design, user experience design, or game design to reimagine aspects of our legal system for the age of self-representation. Law students join interdisciplinary student teams to apply discipline-specific design methodologies and frameworks in response to a specific system design challenge.

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This Land Project

This Land Project is a cross-collaborative initiative working to redefine land use and tenure in communities across the United States utilizing an intentional participatory design process. In Trenton, NJ, the initiative is co-creating the of the first Community Land Trust of its kind in the State of New Jersey. The CLT will support the formation of an Urban Ag Commons, as well as alternative housing opportunities, and other shared value models that respond to this local ecosystem.

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Redesigning Housing Court

The NuLawLab is partnering with the Massachusetts Trial Court and the design consultancy IDEO to tackle a fundamental redesign of Housing Court. This five-year effort will use service and system design methods to approach the challenge from the perspective of the full range of end-users of our courts – represented and unrepresented parties, attorneys, judges, clerks and administrators, jury members, and many others.

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Stable Ground

With support from The Kresge Foundation, we are addressing the complex relationship among chronic housing insecurity, it's psychologically traumatic impact, and municipal housing policy through participatory community-based art and culture programming that is structured to inform the work of the City of Boston’s Office of Housing Stability.

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Human-Centered Legal Tech: Integrating Design in Legal Education

Executive Director Dan Jackson's new article argues that coupling law school technology instruction with training in human-centered design approaches offers educators a means of preparing lawyers not only able to generate novel technology solutions, but able to fundamentally improve legal institutions and programs through those results.

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Witnessing Hate: A Social Justice Archive of the Present

We are collaborating with the NULab for Texts, Maps, and Networks and the Institute on Race and Justice to create a crowd-sourced digital archive to document incidents of hate speech and acts of violence inspired by racism, homophobia, and xenophobia. Our efforts are focused on running a trauma-informed collaborative design process that will engage victims of past hate crimes in designing key aspects of the archive, and articulating the means by which the archive connects victims to resources for legal redress.

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Veteran Caseworkers Triage Platform

The Veterans Legal Help Navigator is an online tool helps veterans' caseworkers and advocates across the countryfind the right fit legal help for veterans. The Navigator will ask you a series of questions about the veteran's income, household size, location and legal issue. Using this information, it will match you with the right fit legal help for the veteran. The Navigator will also suggest resources to learn about the veteran’s legal issue and self-help materials for the veteran. The Veterans Legal Help Navigator helps caseworkers and advocates find legal help only. It will not match you with social services or other non-legal agencies.

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Inconvenient Human Rights: Access to Water and Sanitation in Sweden’s Informal Roma Settlements

Swedish municipalities have initiated more than 80 evictions of vulnerable EU citizens, mostly Roma, from informal settlements on the grounds of poor sanitation since 2013, according to a new report from the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Södertörn University, and the NuLawLab.

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