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A2J by Design: Prototyping Innovative Solutions with Open Legal Information

Duke Law by Design facilitators Kelli Raker & Casandra Laskowski will lead participants in a hands-on workshop using design thinking methodology to prototype solutions to the access to justice gap. After providing a brief background to the methodology, participants will prototype innovative solutions to an A2J issue discussed earlier in the Symposium. The workshop will cultivate participants’ creative problem-solving skillset and empower them to lead their own initiative at their home institutions.

Casandra M. Laskowski

Cas Laskowski collaborates with other innovators and technology centers at the law school to foster student engagement with technology through training, networking, and access to emerging technologies. She is also part of Law by Design, a law school initiative to help foster students creative problem solving by teaching them design thinking methodology. Cas writes regularly about legal and library technology and serves as Vice Chair of the AALL Diversity & Inclusion Standing Committee and SEAALL Treasurer.

Kelli Raker

Kelli Raker supports the Duke Program in Law & Entrepreneurship and the Duke Center on Law & Technology as a program Coordinator at Duke University School of Law. She serves as the Managing Director of the Duke Law Tech Lab and provides student services for the LLM in Law & Entrepreneurship. She received her BA in Interdisciplinary Studies from The College of William and Mary in 2005 and her MA in Higher Education and Student Affairs from The Ohio State University in 2007, and has worked in multiple higher education and nonprofit startup environments.

Access to Justice: Emerging Tech Solutions

This presentation will highlight emerging technologies that are currently addressing barriers to justice, ranging from open casebooks to artificial intelligence functionality for open legal data repositories, and how these types of emerging tech can level the playing field for all stakeholders in the justice system. Access to Justice: Emerging Tech Solutions also aims to foster creativity and problem-solving in libraries and law schools by providing attendees with practical methods to think about and develop solutions to society’s greatest problems within the classroom.

Agnes Gambill

Agnes Gambill is Head of Scholarly Communications for Appalachian State University.  Her work involves matters pertaining to copyright, intellectual property, open access, open educational resources, scholarly publishing, and digital humanities.  She is the chair of the Digital Humanities Working Group at ASU and the former Managing Director of the Duke Law Tech Lab, an accelerator for legal technology startups.  Her research interests include entrepreneurship, emerging technology, and international copyright law.

L. Kelly Fitzpatrick

L. Kelly Fitzpatrick is an open access and digital collections specialist living in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She is a Research Associate at the Harvard Library Innovation Lab.

Kelly graduated with a B.A. from Hampshire College in 2013 and an M.S. from Simmons College School of Library and Information Science in 2015.

 

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