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graphic design in law

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Creating a toolkit for dads navigating child arrangements

A new emotional wellbeing toolkit for charity Dads House is taking shape through collaboration with tl;dr, volunteers and dads themselves. It will combine legal insight, personal experience and thoughtful graphic design.

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Resource type: Videogame & study guide

Kyla's Essay Journey

Not your average study guide! TL;DR launches its most ambitious project yet — a gamified map that walks rookie law students through essay writing from “where do I even start?” to “nailed it!”

Think animation, interviews, videos, quizzes and surprises along the way. It's deep learning disguised as a quest!

Animation
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Cartoons
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Explainer
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Game
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Skills
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Video
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Videogame
Resource type: Puzzle

Spot the Case (at our book launch)

How many famous law cases can you spot in our book-launch day postcard? Stephen Eccles turns his artistic eye towards an attic full of legal precedents.

Cases
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Game
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Poster
Resource type: Comic

Brexit: The Comic Strip

See the Brexit soap opera explained and ‘brought alive’ in visual form for the second edition of Routledge's Insider's Guide To Legal Skills.

Comic
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English legal system
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EU law
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Explainer
Resource type: Interactive map

Mountains of Metaphor

This illustrated interactive map is a representation of metaphors and mental models grown out of Clare Williams's journey to complete her PhD against great odds.

Painting
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Skills
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Videogame
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Writing

External legal design we admire

Resource type: E-Learning website

Carlil & Carbolic

Cartoons, Case Law, Explainer, Illustration, memory
Resource type: Leaflet

Visualising Tenants’ Rights

Booklet, Explainer, Housing Law, Leaflet, Poster
Resource type: Video

Cameron's story

Human Rights, Video
Resource type: Video

Mandatory minimums

Animation, Characters, Explainer, US Law, Video
Resource type: Exhibition

The Body of Law

Characters, Courts, English legal system, Exhibition, Explainer
Resource type: Picture book

The Supreme Court: A Guide for Bears

Book, Characters, Courts, English legal system, Explainer
Resource type: Post-Its

Sticky Tricky Law

EU law, Explainer, Illustration

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Resource type: Booklet

The Leducate Consent Project

Leducate is a charity that teaches everyday legal rights to teenagers. Emily Allbon helps create teaching materials for a class on dating and consent.

Activity
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Citizenship
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Consent
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Scenario
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Schools
Resource type: Video

Lecture Strategy

Cristina offers some video instruction on how to get the most from lectures, covering pre-, mid-, and post-lecture phases.

learning
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memory
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Note-taking
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Skills
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Video
Resource type: Comic

School vs University

A colourful illustration of the basic differences between studying for school and university, made with ready-to-hand tools.

Comic
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illustration
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learning
Resource type: Leaflet

Mortgages-R-Us

Fitting all the key cases of one aspect of the law of mortgages into a single revision page? Challenge accepted!

Explainer
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Illustration
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Land Law
Resource type: Interactive map

A day in Coltsfoot Vale

Coltsfoot vale is a happy place but its residents are having more than their fair share of legal disputes. Explore the interactive map and try and figure out answers to their land-law problems.

Characters
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Game
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Illustration
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Land Law
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Scenario
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Video
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Videogame
Resource type: Animation

A Snail's Tale

OUP competition winner Rahaf Ramdhan tackles every law student's favourite tort case in this Flipaclip animation.

Animation
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Tort
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Video

Did we mention
we've written a textbook?

It's a visually rich, experience-led collection that explores what design can do for legal education.
19 individual case-studies are covered in detail by the people who put them into action.

Book cover for Design In Legal Education, colour version

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More of our resources

Resource type: Leaflet

The RACER

How the City Law School visually explained their new essay marking criteria in just one page.

Booklet
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Checklist
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Explainer
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Writing
Resource type: Comic

A Gift for the Inland Revenue

This comic representation of the leading English trusts law case, drawn by our Legal Design Sprint winner, shows the titles as coloured presents and wraps everything up in just one page!

Cases
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Comic
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Equity and Trusts law
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Illustration
Resource type: Leaflet

The Co-Ownership Explainer

Confused by co-ownership? Confounded by constructive trusts? Take a look at our double-sided explainer to find out the principles and see what happened in the two biggest cases.

Explainer
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Illustration
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Land Law
Resource type: Comic

A History of Equity in Land Law

Lords, war, unscrupulous friends and betrayed families — Find out more about why equity is pivotal to the development of land law in this one-page comic.

Comic
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History
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Illustration
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Land Law
Resource type: Video

Getting what you want from emails

This animated video on email etiquette shows how you can make dull advice a little more engaging, with just limited artistic and technical know-how.

Animation
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Explainer
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Video
Resource type: Booklet

Measuring up school

This beautifully designed booklet for students and their families helps them navigate disciplinary proceedings, learn about their rights, and advocate for better disciplinary policies.

Booklet
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Checklist
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Comic
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Discrimination
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Explainer
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Icons
Resource type: Flashcards

Jenny & Jade's Cards of Much Negligence

It’s getting close to revision time. How do you get all those notes you’ve been making into your head? Visual revision cards are a tried and tested way of helping things stick.

Cases
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Flashcards
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illustration
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Memory
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Tort
Resource type: Origami

The Non-Fatal Offences Chatterbox

Old-skool playground toy becomes law revision tool! Test your understanding of non-fatal offences like assault and battery with this brilliant fortune teller.

Criminal law
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Game
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Origami
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Video
Resource type: Painting

Absolute rights

A symbolic representation of the absolute rights which aim to protect the human being against deprivation of life and ensure the protection of their dignity and liberty.

Human Rights
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Illustration
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Painting