Legal Design Thinking and Legal Visualization. Towards an Understandable EU Law

Through the Jean Monnet project "Legal Design Thinking and Legal Visualization: Towards Understandable EU Law," a group of professors from the Faculty of Law, Business, and Political Sciences has dedicated themselves to training and working both theoretically and practically in the "Design Thinking" methodology for its application in the legal field. This prior experience motivates us to advance in deepening and consolidating this methodology, with the goal of making UCH a benchmark in this area. Specifically, we aim to achieve this through the creation of a "Legal Design Lab" that involves professors and students from various campuses.

Through the proposed activities, the project seeks to fundamentally transform the approach to legal studies. This paradigm shift is based on the premise that the jurist must study the norm in collaboration with other disciplines, with the aim of designing mechanisms that facilitate the communication of complex information, thus contributing to the understanding of the law and decision-making.

The work team is composed of jurists and experts in psychology, pedagogy, communication theory, information technologies, design, and audiovisual design. Together, they have the task of presenting Law and the European Union to the citizen in an innovative way through Legal Visualization and Design Thinking techniques online. The fundamental premise is that the citizen should be able to understand the Law.

The primary objective of this project is to implement "legal design thinking" and employ legal visualization techniques to enhance the comprehension and accessibility of Law and EU Law, along with the functioning of its Institutions. The specific focus is on creating a more citizen-oriented approach to address linguistic, educational, and cultural barriers.

1. Kick-off meeting
2. Multidisciplinary meeting
3. Seminar: Design thinking methodology applied to EU Law
4. Seminar: The improvement of customer experience in legal issues such as pre-contracting and contracting and data protection
5. Seminar: Simplification, co-operative compliance of legal obligations
6. Seminar: New strategies to communicate consumers rights and obligations online in a way that facilitates their understanding and accessibility.
7. Seminar: New formats for presenting EU legislation using design principles: To get a paradigm shift from “read the law” to “see, listen and interact with the law”.
8. International Workshop: New formats for presenting EU legislation using design principles: To get a paradigm shift from “read the law” to “see, listen and interact with the law”.
9. International Conference: Legal Design Thinking and Legal Visualization. Towards an Understandable EU Law
10. Public Awareness Meeting
11. Public Awareness Meeting
12. Public Awareness Meeting

1. Website: Legal Design Thinking and legal visualization: Towards an Understandable Law in Europe
2. Working papers
3. Papers
4. Book Legal Design Thinking: Towards an Understandable Law
5. Didactic Materials and Activities: Legal Design Thinking: Towards an Understandable Law in Europe
6. Summary of findings