Beyond the Visual Theorising Legal Design for Accessibility and Inclusion through an Ability Capitalism Lens

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dc.contributor.authorWilliams, Clare
dc.date.accessioned2025-02-07T17:19:39Z
dc.date.available2025-02-07T17:19:39Z
dc.date.issued2025
dc.description.abstractWhat can a theory of disability bring to our understanding of design-based approaches in legal education? In this presentation, I will extend my chapter on Design in Legal Education by exploring how ‘legal design’ or ‘designerly ways’ can be incorporated into research methods and teaching. I will explore the potential of prefigurative counterfactuals to construct alternative realities through which we can explore ways of doing, talking, and thinking about law, economy, and society. I will take insights from my latest research on disability and my theory of Ability Capitalism to interrogate current shortcomings in how we theorize design-based approaches to legal education, and I will make two suggestions. Firstly, I propose that disability, specifically an Ability Capitalism lens, can help us identify pathways towards a deeper theoretical and conceptual engagement with a designerly lens, while secondly, this is both urgent and necessary for inclusion, accessibility and representation in education and beyond.
dc.description.reviewstatusUnreviewed
dc.description.scholarlevelFaculty
dc.description.sponsorshipUVic Graduate Student Law & Society Research Group
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1828/21100
dc.language.isoen
dc.relation.ispartofseriesLegal Design Series; 5
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internationalen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subjectlaw
dc.subjectdisability
dc.subjectlegal design
dc.subjectlegal education
dc.subjectAbility Capitalism
dc.subjectaccessibility
dc.subjectrepresentation
dc.subjectprefigurative counterfactuals
dc.subjectUVic Graduate Student Law & Society Research Group
dc.titleBeyond the Visual Theorising Legal Design for Accessibility and Inclusion through an Ability Capitalism Lens
dc.typePresentation
dc.typeVideo
dc.typeRecording, oral

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