Legal processes—especially at the institutional level—are becoming increasingly complex. While organizations strive to comply with evolving regulations, they also face growing pressure to build relationships with internal and external stakeholders that are more transparent, participatory, and sustainable.
This is precisely where legal design holds transformative potential for both the communicative and structural dimensions of law. Centered around the user experience and integrating visual and systemic design into legal processes, legal design enables much more than the creation of understandable documents. It supports meaningful stakeholder participation, trust-building, and effective decision-making through multi-layered strategies.
At ADRİstanbul, we are proud to collaborate with Ebru Metin, a legal design expert whose unique contributions are shaping the future of this evolving legal practice. Her two recently published academic articles bridge the gap between legal design theory and real-world implementation:
1. Rethinking Meaningful Stakeholder Engagement: Simplifying Complexity with Legal Design
This article explores how institutions—particularly those engaged in sustainability and ESG efforts—can use legal design to make stakeholder engagement more accessible, understandable, and genuinely inclusive.
2. Legal Design: A Catalyst for Environmental Social and Governance (ESG) and Sustainable Business Practices
Beyond document simplification, this paper discusses how legal design can be a strategic tool for corporate transformation and improved sustainability performance.
Ebru Metin’s work pushes the boundaries of traditional legal thinking, introducing a design mindset that reimagines how legal processes can be simplified, how trust between stakeholders can be strengthened, and how decision-making can be more informed and inclusive. These are no longer just the concerns of legal professionals—they are shared responsibilities for leaders, investors, and institutions alike.
Why It Matters
- Legal design redefines clarity and participation in rapidly digitizing and multi-stakeholder systems.
- It simplifies complex regulations and promotes legal inclusivity.
- It improves cross-border communication, especially in diverse stakeholder negotiations.
- It enables a preventive approach to legal and organizational disputes.
Ebru Metin’s contributions are a valuable resource not only for legal professionals but also for all institutions navigating legal uncertainty. At ADRİstanbul, we see legal design not just as an innovation, but as an emerging professional reflex. Throughout 2026, we will continue to expand our focus on this field—with new trainings, case analyses, and content designed to mainstream legal design in dispute resolution and beyond.
Ebru Metin
Doctoral Researcher at TalTech; Coordinator of TalTech Legal Lab and Founder of Legal Design Turkey
Ebru Metin is a Doctoral Researcher at Tallinn University of Technology and Coordinator of the TalTech Legal Lab at TalTech Law School. Her interdisciplinary research focuses on how legal design can help organisations navigate regulatory complexity and advance sustainable practices. She is the founder of the award-winning social enterprise Legal Design Turkey, which has successfully delivered legal information design projects with UNDP Turkey and UN Women. Her work has received international recognition, including awards and honours from the UNDP Social Innovation Support Programme, the British Council, Euclid Network, the International Legal Technology Association, and the US Department of State/Vital Voices.
