Legal Design as a Thing: A Theory of Change and a Set of Methods to Craft a Human-Centered Legal System

Margaret Hagan is co-guest editor and co-cover designer for this special issue, “The Rise of Legal Design,” of Design Issues (vol. 36, no. 3 Summer 2020). Margaret is the director of the Legal Design Lab and a lecturer at Stanford Institute of Design (the d.school). She was a fellow at the d.school (2013–2014), where she launched the Legal Design Lab, experimenting in how design can make legal services more usable, useful & engaging. She holds an AB from the University of Chicago, an MA from Central European University in Budapest, a PhD from Queen's University Belfast in International Politics, and a JD from Stanford Law School.