Making Law through Pro-Active Law and Legal Design Thinking

Pro-active law, as opposed to reactive law, approaches legal issues in business and society via acting in anticipation of future problems, needs, or changes instead of reacting to failures and shortcomings. Legal design thinking is a cross-discipline that makes use of Legal Thinking, Design Thinking, Visual Thinking and User Experience Design to enhance the human friendliness of understanding and applying the law. Both these approaches consider law as a tool to foster sustainable relationships, ultimately increasing value for companies, individuals, and societies as a whole.

This seminar gathers together experts working in the fields of proactive law and legal design thinking from a multidisciplinary perspective, in order to raise awarness and understanding on the practical, as well as academic value of making use of these approaches in legal practices. As such, the seminar will be of interest to academics, practicioners and businesses, as well as policy makers.

Amongst the speakers and commentators featured:
•    Associate Prof. Helena Haapio, University of Vaasa and Lexpert
•    Dr. Stefania Passera, Lexpert
•    Prof. Soili Nysten-Haarala, University of Lapland
•    Dr. Rosa Maria Ballardini, University of Lapland
•    LLM Piia Kaave, University of Lapland and Osuuspankki

Full programme coming soon!

Note for students:

Students are given the possibility to gain 2ECTS upon the attendance of the whole event and the submission of a learning diary. Students who wish to get the 2ECTS should register via sending an email to rosa.ballardini@ulapland.fi not later than 18th April 2018. The learning diary should be about 10 pages (12 pt Times New Roman; Line spacing 1,5) and it should summarise the key lessons learned at the seminar. The learning diary should be digitised and sent to rosa.ballardini@ulapland.fi not later than Friday 27th April 2018.

More information:

Rosa Maria Ballardini
Senior lecturer in IP law
University of Lapland/Faculty of Law
rosa.ballardini@ulapland.fi