A Critical Assessment of the Notion of Legal Design through the Case of “Les Surligneurs”, a Legal-Checking Media Outlet
(2024) Design(s) for Law — ISBN: [9791256000845], p. 397-428, published
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- In the wake of numerous fact-checking initiatives, the association “Les Surligneurs”, founded in France in 2017 and disseminating in Europe (Belgium), aims to carry out legal-checking, i.e. to verify the conformity with the law of statements made by public figures, particularly in the media. Legal-checking also aims to shed light on the political debate through legal issues. The project follows some clear design patterns (yellow colour, a recognisable logo, the structure of the short articles to be more readable, etc.) and could therefore be seen as part of the legal design movement. However, the project Les Surligneurs was created without knowing about the legal design movement. This movement only started to gain interest in France in 2018-2019. Moreover, the project did not really follow the canonical approach (inherited from design thinking) of a legal design project: it was not the result of a user-research approach. This case study therefore raises the following questions: to which academic field does design thinking belong, and which frame should we use to look at projects at the intersection of design and law? These issues will be critically assessed in this paper, paying attention to the rise of the legal design movement and the real improvement in terms of meeting users’ needs.
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de Clippele, M.-S., & et al. (2024). A Critical Assessment of the Notion of Legal Design through the Case of “Les Surligneurs”, a Legal-Checking Media Outlet. In Rossana Ducato, Alain Strowel, and Enguerrand Marique (eds) (ed.), Design(s) for Law (1 ed., p. p. 397-428). Ledizioni. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10829514