Shaping the Future of AI for Access to Justice By Margaret Hagan, originally published on Legal Design & Innovation If AI is going to advance access to justice rather than deepen the justice ga…| Justice Innovation
By Margaret Hagan, Executive Director of the Legal Design Lab At this year’s International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law (ICAIL 2025) in Chicago, we co-hosted the AI for Access to Justice (AI4A2J) workshop—a full-day gathering of researchers, technologists, legal practitioners, and policy experts, all working to responsibly harness artificial intelligence to improve public access […]| Justice Innovation
(And the Different Ways to Design for Them) by Margaret Hagan In the access to justice world, we often talk about “the justice gap” as if it’s one massive, monolithic challenge. But if we want to t…| Justice Innovation
Insights from Quinten Steenhuis at the AI + Access to Justice Research Seminar Recently, the Stanford Legal Design Lab hosted its latest installment of the AI+Access to Justice Research Seminar, featuring a presentation from Quinten Steenhuis. Quinten is a professor and innovator-in-residence at Suffolk Law School’s LIT Lab. He’s also a former housing attorney in […]| Justice Innovation
The Stanford Legal Design Lab is proud to announce a new initiative funded by the Gates Foundation that aims to bring the power of artificial intelligence (AI) into the hands of legal aid professio…| Justice Innovation
The Legal Design Lab is excited to co-organize a new workshop at the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law (ICAIL 2025): AI for Access to Justice (AI4A2J@ICAIL 2025)📍 Where? N…| Justice Innovation
Caddy Chatbot to Support Supervision of Legal Advisers and Improve Q&A The Citizens Advice network in England and Wales is a cornerstone of free legal and social support, with a network of 270 …| Justice Innovation
Lessons from the Eviction Diversion Initiative for Coordinated Data & Outcomes Measurement Eviction diversion programs aim to prevent unnecessary displacement by connecting tenants and landlords with referrals, resources, and resolution options such as mediation. As these programs expand, evaluating their effectiveness is crucial for improving services, influencing policy, and ensuring they meet the needs of […]| Justice Innovation
by Margaret Hagan, Executive Director of the Legal Design Lab Measuring What Matters: A Quality Rubric for Legal AI Answers As more people turn to AI for legal advice, a pressing issue emerges: How do we know whether AI-generated legal answers are actually helpful? While legal professionals and regulators may have instincts about good and bad […]| Justice Innovation
The Stanford Legal Design Lab has launched the AI and Access to Justice Initiative to conduct user research, system evaluation, network coordination & innovative R&D in this exciting space.…| Justice Innovation
Lessons from Cristina Llop’s Work on Language Access in the Legal System Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine translation (MT) are often seen as tools with the potential to expand access to jus…| Justice Innovation
On December 11, 2024, in Brno, Czechia & online, we held our second annual AI for Access to Justice Workshop at the JURIX Conference. The academic workshop is organized by Quinten Steenhuis, Su…| Justice Innovation
Last week, the 5 student teams in Autumn Quarter’s AI for Legal Help made their final presentations, about if and how generative AI could assist legal aid, court & bar associations in pro…| Justice Innovation
Our Lab is continuing to host meetings & participate in others to scope out what kinds of work needs to happen to make AI work for access to justice. We will be making a comprehensive roadmap o…| Justice Innovation
This October, Stanford Legal Design Lab hosted the first AI + Access to Justice Summit. This invite-only event focused on building a national ecosystem of innovators, regulators, and supporters to …| Justice Innovation
For our upcoming AI+Access to Justice Summit and our AI for Legal Help class, our team has made a new design workbook to guide people through scoping a new AI pilot. We encourage others to use and …| Justice Innovation
Building on last year’s very successful academic workshop on AI & Access to Justice at Jurix ’23 in the Netherlands, this year we are pleased to announce a new workshop at Jurix …| Justice Innovation
This week, Margaret Hagan presented at the Trust and Safety Research Conference, that brings together academics, tech professionals, regulators, nonprofits, and philanthropies to work on making the…| Justice Innovation