Prof. Margaret Hagan

Stanford Legal Design Lab

Margaret Hagan is the Executive Director of the Legal Design Lab and a lecturer at Stanford Law School and the Stanford Institute of Design (the d.school). She was a fellow at the d.school from 2013-2014, where she launched the Program for Legal Tech & Design, experimenting in how design can make legal services more usable, useful & engaging. 


She teaches a series of project-based classes, with interdisciplinary student groups tackling legal challenges through user-focused research and the design of new legal products and services.
She also leads workshops to train legal professionals in the design process, to produce client-focused innovation.

Margaret graduated from Stanford Law School in June 2013. She served as a student fellow at the Center for Internet & Society and president of the Stanford Law and Technology Association. While a student, she built the game app Law Dojo to make studying for law school classes more interactive & engaging. She also started the blog Open Law Lab to document legal innovation and design work.
Margaret holds an AB from the University of Chicago, an MA from Central European University in Budapest, and a PhD from Queen’s University Belfast in International Politics. She is originally from Pittsburgh.

Role in the project

  • Teacher of LED.
  • Member of the scientific board of the annual workshop “Data Science and Legal Design for Explicable AI”.
  • Co-editor of the “Future Lawyers Education Model: Teaching Technology to Lawyers for a changing profession in the Digital Transformation Era.” White paper.

 

 

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