New Certificate in Legal Design
To meet the need for creative and technologically savvy lawyers, Northeastern Law is launching the JD x Graduate Certificate in Legal Design — an interdisciplinary certificate program that encom- passes courses and experiences that will provide JD students with opportunities for in-depth study and practice of legal design and its application in specific contexts, positioning them for the increasing number of postgraduate jobs in this area.
A leader in the field of legal design, Northeastern Law founded NuLawLab, the first staffed legal design lab at a US law school, in 2013 to create new strategies of legal agency through engagement with the fields of art and design.
The NuLawLab team leads the JD x Graduate Certificate in Legal Design, which includes courses, legal design co-ops and practical legal design capstone projects or papers. The certificate program will prepare students to expertly apply legal design methods as innovators in the legal profession. Examples of NuLawLab projects include apps to assist women veterans in obtaining the legal services they deserve, a one-of-a- kind virtual tour of a Colorado courtroom that helps demystify
the legal labyrinth for litigants and founding a coalition to provide technological and personal support for those facing the housing crisis in East Boston.
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