Damian Curran

Law. Design. Technology.

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  • For the Prospective Lobbyist

    For the Prospective Lobbyist

    This is a short reflection on a side project I undertook during the early days of COVID-19. In late 2020 I set out to raise awareness and encourage reform of a COVID-era travel policy of the Australian Government. In this post, I set out a number of take-aways from that experience which might be relevant […]

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    18th Jul 2022
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  • Calculating Consumer Law Market Size

    Calculating Consumer Law Market Size

    ‘Market size’ is the number of individuals who are potential buyers of a product. The term is rarely cited in the humble world of consumer law and access to justice. But it has a role to play. The techniques used to calculate it allow existing institutions in the space, such as charities, Legal Aid, community […]

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    31st Jul 2020
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  • Zooming-in on legal advice

    Zooming-in on legal advice

    In this post I envisage how legal advice could be presented using an interface which literally allows the user to zoom in and out. Detailed advice is provided when zoomed-in, and zooming-out reveals the bigger picture. I suggest the zoom interface may be a more intuitive way for a user to navigate legal advice than traditional solutions, such as using memos with executive summaries and detailed appendices, or hyperlinking.

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    24th Dec 2019
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  • Applying legal design to old law

    Applying legal design to old law

    In this post I set out what a classic legal judgement, Donoghue v. Stevenson, looks like through the modern lens of legal and service design. The design tools, user personas and journey mapping, have the potential to provide students of the law a richer appreciation of the litigants and lawyers involved in a dispute, how […]

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    14th Dec 2019
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  • An exercise in Legal Design

    An exercise in Legal Design

    This post explores the Legal Design Sprint process. It follows the development of what became a low-tech tech, practical solution to communicate legal rights to someone who has been arrested by the police. I highlight the benefits of the Design Sprint process, in particular the gains from user feedback and iteration and of operating in a multi-disciplinary team. I also suggest that there are limits to addressing long-standing access to justice problems in a ‘sprint’ environment.

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    28th Oct 2019
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  • Information revealed in litigation and its effect on Decision Analysis

    Information revealed in litigation and its effect on Decision Analysis

    Decision analysis is a useful tool for a litigator to communicate process and risk, assess how much a case is ‘worth’, and provide a robust justification for settlement offers or acceptance. However the accuracy of the analysis is only as good as the information about the merits of a case available to the litigator at […]

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    23rd Sep 2019
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  • Book Reviews: Tech-Sceptics on Legal-Tech

    A review of sceptical books about tech, through the lens of legal-tech In “To Save Everything, Click Here”, Evgeny Morozov takes aim at “Internet Centrism” and “Solutionism”, two ideas which had infatuated our tech-loving culture in the last few decades. He is a brash, sceptical rabble-rouser, and makes for an entertaining and eye opening read. […]

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    12th Jun 2019
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