Using Design Thinking methods in legal education projects

Doherty, Michael and McKee, Tina (2021) Using Design Thinking methods in legal education projects. In: Association of Law Teachers conference: Disrupting Legal Education, 2021-04-15, Aston University. (Unpublished)

Abstract

This paper outlines how service design methods were used as the framework for a major curriculum re-design of an undergraduate law degree. It was, to our knowledge, the first time that design thinking was applied to planning how the foundations of legal education are delivered, rather than to introduce a legal design elective element into a law programme.