Amanda Perry-Kessaris (Kent Law School), M. Mohsin Alam Bhat (Yale Law School; Jindal Global Law School), & Joanna Perry (Institute for Criminal Policy Research, Birkbeck College, University of London) have posted Prompting and Facilitating Conceptual Experimentation in Designerly Ways: Lessons From an Anti-hate Crime Project in India on SSRN. Here is the abstract:
This paper explores how designerly ways—that is, modes of thinking and practice that are characteristic of design-based disciplines—might contribute to the migration and integration of legal concepts such as hate crime, by prompting and facilitating critical, practical and imaginative pedagogical experimentation. It uses the example of a project in which activists, lawyers, researchers and journalists working on targeted violence in India were invited to experiment with the concept of ‘hate crime’. It concludes that such experimentation is especially useful and urgent when debating the potential risks and rewards around the migration of globally established legal concepts, such as hate crime, into specific local contexts, such as India; and all the more so where the sociolegal context renders such debate risky. Designerly ways can help to ensure that any such migration is ‘provincialised’, and that the concept itself is enriched in the process.
