Scholarly Publications
AI, Legal Help & Technology
What Legal Help Teams and Consumers Actually Do: A Legal Help Task Taxonomy to Accelerate Research and Innovation Margaret Hagan. SSRN, 2026. View on SSRN
You Say Potato, We Say Legal Issue: Developing the Legal Issues Taxonomy (LIST) for Smarter Issue-Spotting and Access to Justice Infrastructure Margaret Hagan. SSRN, 2026. View on SSRN
Paths Toward Access to Justice at Scale: Evaluating Theories of Change in the Civil Justice System Margaret Hagan. SSRN, 2026. View on SSRN
Measuring What Matters: Developing Human-Centered Legal Q-and-A Quality Standards through Multi-Stakeholder Research Margaret Hagan. SSRN, 2025. View on SSRN
Towards Human-Centered Standards for Legal Help AI Margaret Hagan. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, Feb. 2024. Philos Trans A Math Phys Eng Sci (2024) 382 (2270): 20230157 . https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2023.0157 View on SSRN
Good AI Legal Help, Bad AI Legal Help: Establishing Quality Standards for Responses to People’s Legal Problem Stories Margaret Hagan. JURIX 2023: 36th International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems, AI and Access to Justice Workshop, December 2023. View on SSRN
Legalbench: A Collaboratively Built Benchmark for Measuring Legal Reasoning in Large Language Models Neel Guha, Julian Nyarko, Daniel E. Ho, Christopher Ré, Adam Chilton, et al. (incl. Margaret Hagan). 2023 Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, Datasets and Benchmarks Track, NIPS ’23: Proceedings of the 37th International Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems Article No.: 1915, Pages 44123 – 44279
Does Googling Justice Work? Auditing Search Engines’ Performance as Intermediaries of Legal Help Online Margaret Hagan and Nóra Al Haider. UCLA Journal of Law and Technology, Vol. 29, No. 1, pp. 37–133, 2023. View on SSRN
Legal Help Search Audit: Are Search Engines Effective Brokers of Legal Information? Margaret Hagan and Yue Li. SSRN, 2020. View on SSRN
The Future of HCI-Policy Collaboration Qian Yang, Richmond Y. Wong, S. Jackson, S. Junginger, Margaret Hagan, T. Gilbert, et al. Proceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. CHI ’24: Proceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Article No.: 820, Pages 1 – 15 https://doi.org/10.1145/3613904.3642771
Designing Technology and Policy Simultaneously: Towards a Research Agenda and New Practice Qian Yang, Richmond Y. Wong, T. Gilbert, Margaret Hagan, S. Jackson, S. Junginger, et al. Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.
Finding a Choice in a Haystack: Automatic Extraction of Opt-Out Statements from Privacy Policy Text V. Bannihatti Kumar, R. Iyengar, N. Nisal, Y. Feng, H. Habib, P. Story, et al. (incl. Margaret Hagan). Proceedings of The Web Conference 2020, pp. 1943–1954.
Design, Courts & Access to Justice
Ensuring Housing Stability and Protections for the Nation’s Renters: Avenues for Federal Action Margaret Hagan, P. Hepburn, J. Steil, and B. Weiss. Housing Policy Debate, 35(3), 600–615, 2025.
Legal Design: Integrating Business, Design and Legal Thinking with Technology M. Corrales Compagnucci, Helena Haapio, Margaret Hagan, and M. Doherty (eds.). Edward Elgar Publishing, 2021.
A New Attitude to Law’s Empire: The Potentialities of Legal Design M. Doherty, M.C. Compagnucci, Helena Haapio, and Margaret Hagan. Legal Design, 1–8, 2021.
Prototyping for Policy Margaret Hagan. 2021. in Legal Design book, pp 9-31. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781839107269.00009
Designing Public Services in the Age of Big Tech: Beyond Government-to-Citizen Service Design to Infrastructure Design Margaret Hagan. In Design(s) for Law, edited by Rossana Ducato, Alain Strowel, and Enguerrand Marique. Zenodo, 2024. View on SSRN
The Supply and Demand of Legal Help on the Internet Margaret Hagan. In Legal Tech and the Future of Civil Justice, edited by David Freeman Engstrom. Cambridge University Press, 2023. View on SSRN
Digital Inequalities and Access to Justice: Dialing into Zoom Court Unrepresented Victor D. Quintanilla, Kurt Hugenberg, Margaret Hagan, Amy Gonzales, Ryan Hutchings, and Nedim Yel. In Legal Tech and the Future of Civil Justice, edited by David Freeman Engstrom. Cambridge University Press, forthcoming. View on SSRN
Introduction to Design Thinking for Law Margaret Hagan. In Legal Informatics, edited by Daniel M. Katz, Ron Dolin, and Michael Bommarito. Cambridge University Press, 2021. View on SSRN
Reimagining Today’s Legal Education for Tomorrow’s Lawyers: The Role of Legal Design, Technology and Innovation Stephanie Dangel, Margaret Hagan, and James Bryan Williams. In Mapping Legal Innovation, edited by A. Masson and G. Robinson. Springer, 2021. View on SSRN
Legal Design as a Thing: A Theory of Change and a Set of Methods to Craft a Human-Centered Legal System Margaret Hagan. Design Issues, 36(3): 3–15, 2020. doi: 10.1162/desi_a_00600 View on SSRN
A Design Space for Legal and Systems Capability: Interfaces for Self-Help in Complex Systems Margaret Hagan and F. Kursat Ozenc. Design Issues, 36(3): 61–81, 2020. doi: 10.1162/desi_a_00604 View on SSRN
Design Comes to the Law School Margaret Hagan. In Modernising Legal Education, edited by C. Denvir, pp. 109–125. Cambridge University Press, 2020. View on SSRN
Participatory Design for Innovation in Access to Justice Margaret Hagan. Daedalus, Vol. 148, Issue 1, Winter 2019, pp. 120–127. View on SSRN
The Justice is in the Details: Evaluating Different Self-Help Designs for Legal Capability in Traffic Court Margaret Hagan. Journal of Open Access to the Law, Vol. 7, No. 1, October 2019. View on SSRN
Exploding the Fine Print: Designing Visual, Interactive, Consumer-Centric Contracts and Disclosures Margaret Hagan. In Legal Tech, Smart Contracts and Blockchain, edited by M. Corrales, M. Fenwick, and H. Haapio. Springer, 2019, pp. 93–122. View on SSRN
Approaches to Eviction Prevention Emily A. Benfer, Solomon J. Greene, and Margaret Hagan. SSRN, 2020. View on SSRN
A Human-Centered Design Approach to Access to Justice: Generating New Prototypes and Hypotheses for Intervention to Make Courts User-Friendly Margaret Hagan. Indiana Journal of Law and Social Equality, Vol. 6, Iss. 2, Article 2, 2018. View on SSRN
The User Experience of the Internet as a Legal Help Service: Defining Standards for the Next Generation of User-Friendly Online Legal Services Margaret Hagan. Virginia Journal of Law and Technology, Vol. 20, No. 394, 2016. View on SSRN
Redesigning Justice Innovation: A Standardized Methodology Margaret Hagan and Daniel Bernal. SSRN. View on SSRN
A Regulatory Sandbox for the Industry of Law Jorge Gabriel Jiménez and Margaret Hagan. Thomson Reuters Legal Executive Institute, 2019.
A Visual Approach to Law Margaret Hagan. 2017. 1
Design Thinking and Law: A Perfect Match Margaret Hagan. Law Practice Today, 2014.
Privacy, Contracts & Information Design
Design Patterns for Contracts Helena Haapio and Margaret Hagan. Proceedings of the 19th International Legal Informatics Symposium IRIS 2016. Jusletter IT, 25 February 2016. View on SSRN
User-Centered Privacy Communication Design Margaret Hagan. Proceedings of the Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS) 2016, Denver, Colorado, June 22–24, 2016. View on SSRN
Legal Design Patterns for Privacy Helena Haapio, Margaret Hagan, Monica Palmirani, and Arianna Rossi. Proceedings of the 21st International Legal Informatics Symposium IRIS 2018. View on SSRN
A Methodological Framework to Design a Machine-Readable Privacy Icon Set Monica Palmirani, Arianna Rossi, Michele Martoni, and Margaret Hagan. Data Protection / LegalTech Proceedings of the 21st International Legal Informatics Symposium IRIS 2018. View on SSRN
Antitrust on the Internet: A Comparative Assessment of Competition Law Enforcement in the Internet Realm Gonenc Gurkaynak, Derya Durlu Gürzumar, and Margaret Hagan. Business Law International, 14 Bus. L. Int’l (2013). View on SSRN
Organizational Design & Other Research
Ritual Design: Crafting Team Rituals for Meaningful Organizational Change F. Ozenc and Margaret Hagan. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, Proceedings of the Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics International Conference, 2017. Springer Press. View on SSRN
Design for Dignity and Procedural Justice Margaret Hagan and Miso Kim. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, Proceedings of the Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics International Conference, 2017. Springer Press. View on SSRN
Books
Rituals for Work: 50 Ways to Create Engagement, Shared Purpose, and a Culture that Can Adapt to Change Kursat Ozenc and Margaret Hagan. Wiley, 2019. Also published in Polish (Kreatywne rytualy przydatne w pracy, MT Biznes, 2020) and French (Rituels pour le boulot, De Boeck Supérieur, 2020).
Law by Design Margaret Hagan. lawbydesign.co.
Essays & Thought Pieces
Published on Legal Design and Innovation, the Stanford Legal Design Lab’s Medium publication.
2026
- Margaret Hagan. Why Legal Help AI R&D Gets Stuck — Why so many legal help AI projects stall at pilot stage, and what shared infrastructure strategy can do about it. (March 2026)
- Margaret Hagan. The Legal Help Commons — Introducing shared infrastructure for legal help organizations building with AI. (March 2026)
- Margaret Hagan. Why the Access to Justice Field Needs Better Theories of Change — We have promising ideas about how to serve more people. We just don’t know how to make them stick and scale. (March 2026)
2025
- Margaret Hagan. The AI + Access to Justice Summit 2025 — Takeaways from the second annual summit bringing together 150+ professionals to tackle the AI+A2J ecosystem. (December 2025)
- Margaret Hagan. The Legal User ↔ Legal Provider Gap Is Closing — How AI and design are narrowing the gap between what people need and what legal services provide. (December 2025)
- Margaret Hagan. From AI Hype to Strategic AI Design — Moving past the excitement to build AI that actually works for legal help. (September 2025)
- Margaret Hagan. A Call for Statewide Legal Help AI Stewards — Why every state needs a coordinated strategy for AI in legal help. (August 2025)
- Margaret Hagan. Human-Centered Justice AI R&D at ICAIL Workshop — Report from the International Conference on AI and Law. (June 2025)
- Margaret Hagan. 3 Kinds of Access to Justice Conflicts (And the Different Ways to Design for Them) — A framework for understanding the different design challenges in A2J. (May 2025)
- Margaret Hagan. Can Large Language Models Help Streamline Legal Intake? — Testing AI-assisted intake workflows for legal aid organizations. (April 2025)
- Margaret Hagan. The Hidden Harms of Criminal Record Data — How data systems perpetuate inequality in the justice system. (March 2025)
- Margaret Hagan. How AI is Augmenting Human-Led Legal Advice at Citizens Advice — A case study from the UK. (March 2025)
- Margaret Hagan. Coordinated Data Gathering to Advance Access to Justice Efforts Around the Country — Building shared measurement infrastructure. (February 2025)
- Margaret Hagan. Measuring What Matters: A Quality Rubric for Legal Q&A — Developing evaluation standards for AI-generated legal information. (February 2025)
- Margaret Hagan. AI, Machine Translation, and Access to Justice — Exploring AI’s role in language access for legal help. (February 2025)
2024
- Margaret Hagan. AI + Access to Justice Summit 2024 — Recap of the inaugural summit. (December 2024)
- Margaret Hagan. Interviewing Legal Experts on the Quality of AI Answers — What legal professionals think about AI-generated legal information. (August 2024)
- Margaret Hagan. User Research Report into AI for Access to Justice: Legal Question & Answers — Comprehensive user research on how people interact with AI legal tools. (March 2024)
- Margaret Hagan. Bringing an AI & Access to Justice Community Together — Building the national network for responsible AI in legal help. (February 2024)
2023
- Margaret Hagan. Opportunities & Risks for AI, Legal Help, and Access to Justice — Mapping the landscape of AI in the justice system. (June 2023)
- Margaret Hagan. AI Platforms & Privacy Protection through Legal Design — How design can protect users in AI-powered legal tools. (September 2023)
- Margaret Hagan. Better Disclosure Design through Data-Driven Risk Communication — Improving how organizations communicate risk and rights. (June 2023)
- Margaret Hagan. Design Standards for Court & Government Forms — A rubric for making government forms actually usable. (March 2023)
- Nóra Al Haider. Using Schema.org to Help People Find Legal Aid — Technical guide to making legal help discoverable on search engines. (January 2023)
2022
- Margaret Hagan. The State of Eviction Prevention Efforts — National overview of what’s working and what isn’t. (December 2022)
- Margaret Hagan. [An International RAn International R&D Community for Better Justice InnovationsD Community for Better Justice Innovations](https://medium.com/legal-design-and-innovation/an-international-r-d-community-for-better-justice-innovations-b4a739b4b0fe) — Building cross-border collaboration for justice design. (August 2022)
- Margaret Hagan. How do you design a user-friendly court form? — Practical guide to court form redesign. (June 2022)
- Margaret Hagan. What are the Barriers Tenants Face to Accessing Eviction Prevention Help? — User research on housing justice. (June 2022)
- Margaret Hagan. Strategies for better language access in legal help — Approaches to multilingual legal services. (May 2022)
- Margaret Hagan. Data-Driven Legal Help — Using data to improve legal services delivery. (May 2022)
- Margaret Hagan. There Has To Be A Better Way Than This — A manifesto for reimagining the civil justice system. (April 2022)
- Margaret Hagan. Making Good Legal Design the Law — Embedding design standards into legal requirements. (January 2022)
2021
- Margaret Hagan. Legal Design Lab’s 2021 Year in Review — Annual retrospective of the Lab’s projects and impact. (December 2021)
- Margaret Hagan. Human-Centered Computable Contracts — Exploring how to make machine-readable contracts that still serve people. (December 2021)
- Nóra Al Haider. Court Observation Hub — Launching a public repository of online court observation resources. (October 2021)
- Rachel Wang. How do we measure Access to Justice (and improvements to it)? — Frameworks for evaluating justice system interventions. (October 2021)
- Margaret Hagan. What does a user-centered eviction court summons look like? — Design process and outcomes from court summons redesign projects. (September 2021)
- Margaret Hagan. Standards, Standards, Standards to advance Justice Innovation — Why the field needs shared quality benchmarks. (July 2021)
- Margaret Hagan. Administrative Burdens & Citizen Experience Design — Applying sludge audit principles to government services. (June 2021)
- Margaret Hagan. An Equity Lens on Eviction Prevention — Examining eviction prevention through a racial equity framework. (June 2021)
- Margaret Hagan. Lessons from the Pandemic on Keeping People Housed in a Crisis and Beyond — What COVID-era eviction prevention taught us. (March 2021)
- Margaret Hagan. Can we get legal aid websites to actually show up when people search for help? — SEO and discoverability for legal help. (January 2021)
- Margaret Hagan. What can legal learn from medical when it comes to ethical AI? — Cross-sector lessons for responsible AI deployment. (January 2021)
2020
- Katie Yoon. An Easy Guide to Creating User Friendly FAQs — Practical guide for legal organizations building FAQ content. (November 2020)
- Michael Swerdlow. Public Interest Project (PIP) Hub — Student project documentation. (September 2020)
- Quinten Steenhuis. Creating a clinic in a box: why I fell in love with building online legal apps — Building replicable legal aid technology. (September 2020)
- Belinda Mo. Addressing Immigrant Needs for Language Access during COVID-19 — Language access challenges during the pandemic. (July 2020)
- Sabina Beleuz. When Tech-for-Good Backfires — Critical examination of technology interventions in the justice system. (July 2020)
- Margaret Hagan. Renter’s Rights in every state during COVID-19 — Building the Legal Help FAQ platform during the pandemic. (June 2020)
- Margaret Hagan. Designing against legal misinformation during an emergency — Combating misinformation about legal rights during COVID-19. (June 2020)
- Juan Martinez. Improving Legal Hotlines with SMS — Modernizing phone-based legal help with text messaging. (April 2020)
- Nóra Al Haider. Legal Design Summit: Diving Beneath The Surface — Documentation from the Stanford Legal Design Summit. (April 2020)
- Jay Mitchell. Outlooks, Techniques, and Words — Reflections on legal design methodology. (February 2020)
- Jonah Wu. Bail or No Bail: An Analysis of Risk Assessment Algorithms & Algorithmic Fairness Research — Examining algorithmic decision-making in criminal justice. (January 2020)
2019
- Margaret Hagan. Regulatory Sandboxes for legal services innovation — How regulatory experimentation can enable new legal service models. (November 2019)
- Damian Curran. An Exercise in Legal Design — Applying legal design methods to real-world problems. (November 2019)
- Margaret Hagan. Can Design Really Make Better Government? — Exploring the impact of design thinking on public services. (August 2019)
- Michael Doherr. Is it time for a Legal Design journal? — Making the case for formalizing the field. (August 2019)
- Jonah Wu. AI Goes to Court: The Growing Landscape of AI for Access to Justice — Mapping AI applications in the justice system. (August 2019)
- Munira Alimire. Examining the Tenant Right to Counsel Rollout Landscape — Analyzing right-to-counsel implementation across jurisdictions. (July 2019)
- Margaret Hagan. Networking out Legal Design Labs from Stanford to the world — Building a global community of practice. (May 2019)
- Margaret Hagan. A Journey through Colombia’s Constitutional Court’s Tutela Design Challenge — International legal design collaboration. (May 2019)
- Michael Swerdlow. How to design a Policy Hackathon — Practical guide to running design sprints for policy. (April 2019)
- Jorge Gabriel J. How can we build a Data Commons for Law? — Exploring shared data infrastructure for legal systems. (April 2019)
- Jorge Gabriel J. The Key Models for a Legal Data Commons — Frameworks for open legal data. (April 2019)
- Jorge Gabriel J. A Data Commons for Law — Vision for shared legal data infrastructure. (April 2019)
- Margaret Hagan. A hybrid Data/Design workshop for justice innovation — Combining data analysis with design methods. (February 2019)
- Margaret Hagan. Design POV tourism: a short introductory exercise — Teaching exercise for legal design classes. (January 2019)
- Margaret Hagan. Making Legal Design a Thing — and an Academic Discipline — Defining the field and its academic foundations. (December 2018)
2018
- Margaret Hagan. What Law Can Learn from Digital Epidemiology — Cross-disciplinary lessons for legal data analysis. (November 2018)
- Margaret Hagan. Quick takes on how to bring prototyping into policy-making — Applying rapid prototyping methods to policy development. (November 2018)
- Verena Kontschieder. Prototyping in Policy — What For?! — The case for prototype-driven policy design. (October 2018)
- Jorge Gabriel J. An Interview with Jane Wong — Conversation with a legal design practitioner. (October 2018)
- Margaret Hagan. Every legal problem that exists: the legal help taxonomy for machine learning — Introducing the LIST taxonomy for categorizing legal problems. (September 2018)
- Jane Wong. Launching a Coordinated Housing Law Referral System — Building cross-organizational referral infrastructure. (August 2018)
- Jorge Gabriel J. Building a Better Lawyer — Reimagining legal education and practice through design. (July 2018)
- Margaret Hagan. Doing User Research in the Courts on the Future of Access to Justice — Field research methods for court system improvement. (July 2018)
- Zane Ice. The Playing Field of Legal Chatbots — Surveying chatbot technology in legal services. (June 2018)
- Margaret Hagan. Meet the Legal Design Lab: A technologist comes to the Law School — Introduction to the Lab and its mission. (June 2018)
- Margaret Hagan. A Human-Centered taxonomy of legal problems — Developing user-centered categories for legal issues. (June 2018)
- Margaret Hagan. The evolution of an eviction self-help website — Documenting the iterative design of legal help web tools. (May 2018)
- Margaret Hagan. Rethinking Data Privacy Communication Design: 3 big questions from Bologna — Privacy communication design insights from international research. (April 2018)
- Jane Wong. A Design-Driven Pilot to Unify Legal Aid in the Bay Area — Designing coordinated legal aid delivery systems. (April 2018)
- Margaret Hagan. Teaching machines about family law — Training AI models to understand family law issues. (March 2018)
- Margaret Hagan. A conversation with Public Policy Lab on their government innovation work — Cross-sector design interview. (February 2018)
- Ayushi Vig. The Rise of Design in Policymaking: In conversation with Verena Kontschieder — Interview on design methods in policy. (February 2018)
- Jane Wong. Unifying Legal Aid in the Bay Area — Regional legal aid coordination project. (January 2018)
- Nóra Al Haider. The Legal Design Summit Recap: Uncharted Territory — Summit documentation. (January 2018)
- Margaret Hagan. Community testing 4 innovations for traffic court justice — User testing results for traffic court design interventions. (December 2017)
2017
- Margaret Hagan. The State of Legal Design: the big takeaways of the Stanford Law + Design Summit — Key themes from the field-defining summit. (September 2017)
- Margaret Hagan. Prototyping a Fairer Traffic Court: 5 Ideas to Empower People who Got a Ticket — Design concepts for traffic court reform. (August 2017)
- Jose Torres. Legal Research through Design (Legal Design) — Methodology for research-through-design in legal contexts. (June 2017)
- Margaret Hagan. Traffic Court can ruin your life. How can we design a user-centered one? — Redesigning the traffic court experience. (May 2017)
- Margaret Hagan. Flipping lawyers from talking to doing: Prototype-first Design Process — Moving legal professionals toward hands-on prototyping. (March 2017)
- Margaret Hagan. How to teach a design school class (well) — Pedagogy for legal design education. (March 2017)
- Margaret Hagan. Seven Prototypes to Make Courts More User-Friendly — Student-designed interventions for court accessibility. (March 2017)
- Margaret Hagan. Community Design for New Modes of Legal Service: The Escambia Project — Community-based design for legal services in Florida. (February 2017)
- Margaret Hagan. Designing a more user-friendly legal system: notes from the field — Fieldwork reflections on justice system design. (February 2017)
- Margaret Hagan. Harvard A2J Lab hackathon on user-friendly service of process — Hackathon report on redesigning court notifications. (February 2017)
- Margaret Hagan. Smarter screening for government benefits — Improving eligibility screening through design. (February 2017)
- Margaret Hagan. The Prototyping Journey: from post-it to wizard of oz — Guide to prototyping methods for legal services. (January 2017)
- Margaret Hagan. A Service Design Approach to the Legal System — Applying service design methodology to justice. (January 2017)
- Margaret Hagan. Dear Courts, How Well-Designed Are Your Public Websites? — Auditing court website usability. (January 2017)
- Margaret Hagan. Ontologies for lawyers — How ontologies and taxonomies can improve legal information systems. (January 2017)
2016
- Margaret Hagan. Legal Innovator of the Week: Shantelle Argyle — Profile of a legal innovator. (December 2016)
- Margaret Hagan. 6 Core Principles for Good Legal Design — Foundational principles for the field. (November 2016)
- Margaret Hagan. This week’s Legal Innovator: Matthew Stubenberg — Profile of a legal technologist. (October 2016)
- Margaret Hagan. Legal Innovators: Briane Cornish-Knight — Profile of a justice innovator. (October 2016)
- Margaret Hagan. What would better search results for legal help look like? — Imagining improved legal information discovery. (September 2016)
- Margaret Hagan. What would user-friendly computable contracts look like? — Design vision for machine-readable contracts. (August 2016)
- Margaret Hagan. A Better Way to Evaluate Ideas for (Legal) Change — Evaluation frameworks for legal innovation. (July 2016)
- Margaret Hagan. Sparking two tracks of ‘Originals’ for legal innovation — Strategies for driving innovation in the legal field. (July 2016)
Project Documentation & Reports
Published on Legal Design and Innovation and on Justice Innovation.
- Margaret Hagan. Legal Aid Intake & Screening AI — A report on an AI-powered intake and screening workflow for legal aid teams. AI for Legal Help class project, 2025.
- Vasyl Rakivnenko. Best Vision-enabled LLMs for Data Extraction: Cost-Performance Benchmark — Benchmarking vision models for legal document processing. (July 2025)
- Nóra Al Haider. Observing Legal Use of LLMs on Social Media: How People Are Really Using AI for Legal Help — Field research on real-world AI legal help usage. (June 2025)
- Nóra Al Haider. Building Generative AI Chatbots for Legal Self-Help in Nevada — Case study of state-level AI implementation. (October 2025)
- AliMarie DePrez. Legal Assistance Centers: Expanding Access to Justice — Overview of legal assistance center models. (November 2025)
- AliMarie DePrez. Fine-Tuning LLMs for Legal Knowledge Assessment: A Taiwan Case Study — International AI evaluation case study. (November 2025)
- Nóra Al Haider. Hearing People Out: AI and Access to Justice Case Studies from Australia — International case studies. (October 2025)
- Nóra Al Haider. Inside the Eviction Defense Center: Lessons from Field and User Testing — Design research in housing court. (October 2025)
- AliMarie DePrez. AI Video for Legal Aid — Exploring video AI tools for legal help. (September 2025)
- Nóra Al Haider. AI & Access to Justice webinar series: AI and Jurisdiction Mismatch — Webinar documentation. (April 2025)
- Nóra Al Haider. AI & Access to Justice webinar series: AI in Practice — Webinar documentation. (November 2024)
- Nóra Al Haider. AI & Access to Justice webinar series: Bridging Technology and Legal Practice — Webinar documentation. (November 2024)
- Nóra Al Haider. Search Audit 2023 and the AI Online Legal Information Assessment Tool — Auditing how AI and search engines serve legal information seekers. (July 2024)
- Nóra Al Haider. AI and A2J webinar series: Hannes Westermann — The Hammer and the Carpenter — Webinar documentation. (June 2024)
- Nóra Al Haider. AI & The Stanford Legal Design Lab — Overview of the Lab’s AI work. (January 2024)
- Nóra Al Haider. AI & Online Legal Information — Research on AI’s impact on online legal content. (December 2022)
- Sarah Verschoor. How Can Text Messages Help Prevent Evictions? — Evaluating SMS-based eviction prevention. (August 2022)
- Nóra Al Haider. New Spaces of Justice: A Tribute — Documenting innovative justice spaces. (September 2022)
- Nóra Al Haider. Architecture and Law: Courtyards as starting points of resistance — Exploring the relationship between physical space and justice. (January 2023)