Marton Ribary and Antony Starza-Allen published a short piece about an experimental workshop design using LEGO® for legal problem in contract law in The Law Teacher

Marton Ribary (RHUL) and Antony Starza-Allen (Surrey) published an article in the “Policy and education developments” section of The Law Teacher 58 (2024) under the title “Legal problem solving with Lego®”. The short piece introduces a working game designed for legal problem solving where students use LEGO® to create visual representations of legal analysis. The paper explains the workshop’s structure and rationale which is based on the LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® method and Marton and Antony’s own five-stage guided approach to problem solving in contract law. The paper also comments on LEGO® models built by students during workshops exploring issues in contract law. In their feedback, students reported that the method helped them to understand contract law doctrine, navigate problem questions and think about their analysis of legal issues. Marton and Antony suggest that, with further investigation, the method can be a viable pedagogical technique to assist with the identification and understanding of a wide range of legal information, and to discern relevant connections between doctrine and fact patterns to achieve successful abstraction, application, and ultimately the construction of complex legal analysis. The method also builds confidence, social interaction skills and reinforces competence in legal problem solving.

Marton Ribary and Antony Starza-Allen, ‘Legal Problem Solving with LEGO®’ (2024) 58 The Law Teacher, doi:10.1080/03069400.2024.2355793.