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26 - Repair and Resistance

Law Students as Leaders of the Legal Design Movement

from IV - Where Legal Design Goes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 December 2024

By
Antonio M. Coronado
Edited by
Miso Kim ,
Dan Jackson  and
Jules Rochielle Sievert
Miso Kim
Affiliation:
Northeastern University, Boston
Dan Jackson
Affiliation:
Northeastern University, Boston
Jules Rochielle Sievert
Affiliation:
Northeastern University, Boston
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Summary

By looking to the role of legal education as a site of socialization, this chapter joins fellow critical scholarships in analyzing law schools as both remnants and conduits of harmful design methodologies. Dignity, as a principle of community sovereignty and self-determination, has been antithetical to the legal profession’s practices of gatekeeping and remains systematically absent from the infrastructure of legal education. Legal design provides a promising point of intervention for disrupting these violent methodologies – if law schools will allow it. In acknowledging the position of law students as inheritors to legacies of legal harm, this chapter makes an urgent call for centralizing law students in the legal profession’s reimagining of service design models. Through practices of resistance, repair, and responsiveness, law student engagement with the broader critical design movement is necessary for realizing a human-centered legal profession and a future predicated on the intrinsic dignity of all.

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reparative legal pedagogylegal educationlawyer socializationlaw student movementscritical legal designDEIcritical race theory
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Legal Design
Dignifying People in Legal Systems
 , pp. 383 - 399
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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