Meet Rojda Tosun, the pioneering force behind PublicLegalDesign.

Rojda is a fully qualified lawyer and legal design expert. She has an in-depth understanding of the legal system, including its logic, gaps and the points where people get stuck. Her approach is fundamentally creative. She sees what appears to be friction as an indication of where systems can be improved.

She has a background combining legal expertise, design training, and public service. As a Mercator Fellow in Public Legal Innovation and a member of NuLawLab and the Legal Design School, as well as being the co-founder of an NGO with over 2,000 participants, she has implemented projects both nationally and internationally, including for federal ministries, the United Nations and institutions such as Harvard University. She has worked both within institutions and in community-based contexts in over 50 workshops and panels across various continents.

For Rojda, PublicLegalDesign is more than just a workplace; it feels like home. Everything that has driven her from the outset comes together here: her interest in changeable systems and the people needed to implement them. For her, building bridges between institutions that do not communicate with one another and between rules and those who live under them is not a metaphor, but a method. It's about shaping systems together, not describing them from above.

At PublicLegalDesign, the perspectives of law, design and the community converge, complemented by digital methods and AI. These are not considered as separate tools, but rather as an integrated approach. Our goal is to create legally sound, practical solutions that are tailored to real-world needs — solutions that treat the law as a means to justice.

You can find out what Rojda is currently working on at the project page and on LinkedIn. For enquiries, click here to access the contact form.