Projects
"My work begins where law and reality converge."
In the spotlight
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Re:Form brings together people who don’t just want to describe the state of tomorrow, but to shape it.
Rojda Tosun leads the Legislative Reform workstream there: a format that combines institutional knowledge with collaborative practice. A long-standing commitment that demonstrates how change arises through continuity.
Check out the full video here.
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In order to meet the demands of a digital, complex reality, how must the legislative process in federal ministries change?
This study, published by Agora Digitale Transformation, offers a structured response to this question, emphasising the necessity of reforms that have long been overlooked in public discourse.
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Legal Design Expert in the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) exploring points of interventions and experimenting with solutions spanning digitalization, statistical analysis, optimizing physical spaces, and Mobile Justice.
“The starting point is always concrete.
Laws should involve the people they affect.”
At a glance
Transformation doesn’t happen on its own.
Networking, knowledge transfer and collaborative formats form an integral part of PublicLegalDesign’s practice, alongside consulting, workshops, publications and experiments.
This page documents everything that has emerged from this work and the projects Rojda is currently working on.
Laws that work
From Policy to Impact: Consulting and Process Support in Ministries, Government Agencies and Parliament
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Re:Form, Forum for the State of Tomorrow — Workshop, design & implementation — (detailed in spotlight)
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Initiative for an Effective State — Expert and consortium member under the patronage of Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier. Output: Final report.
> Final report
> Video (from 1:21 min.)
> LinkedInAgora Digital Transformation, Study — (detailed in spotlight)
Alliance for State Reform — Workshop and report integrating design, testing and feedback.
> ReportRe:Fokus — Workshop with administrative staff from municipalities, cities, and the federal government: “How can we make the legislative process more collaborative?"
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Federal Digital Service, Digitalcheck — Design and implementation of an interagency online training program on digital-ready regulatory design.
> LinkedInSymposium “The Future of Legislation” — Design, coordination, and implementation with members of the Bundestag; opening remarks by the former Federal Minister of Justice.
> LinkedInSupport for a legislative initiative at the Federal Ministry of Finance using PublicLegalDesign methods.
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Workshop Series at the Federal Ministry of Finance — “PublicLegalDesign: New Perspectives on Legislation”.
Moderated discussion at the Federal Chancellery
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Creative Bureaucracy Festival — Workshop: “Democratizing Transformation, Regulating Transformative Action"
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Redesigning the Ministerial Legislative Process — A Consultative Project Under the Auspices of the Federal Chancellery.
> Projektinformationen
A practice that transforms
Legal Design as a Discipline and Approach: Workshops, publications and knowledge transfer
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Legal Design Roundtable — Community talk on the current state and future prospects of legal design.
> LinkedInPodcast “How Is Legal Design Changing the Legal World?” — Discussion on methodology, approach, and practice.
> Listen to the podcast episodeCreative Bureaucracy Festival — Session and workshop “In front of the Law: Accessible Governance. PublicLegalDesign Hacks for Administrative Staff
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Creative Bureaucracy Festival — Jury member
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Creative Bureaucracy Festival — Session “Redesigning Ministerial Legislative Drafting”
> Profile on CBF
> LinkedIn
Designing global justice
Legal Design where change is needed: International Projects and Collaborations
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Design Research Society Boston — Track Review.
> Conference InformationPanel "Immigrant Society on the Ground: Shaping Integration and Participation Digitally" — with State Secretary Bernd Krösser (Federal Ministry of the Interior) and representatives of the German Association of Counties, at the invitation of Minister of State Reem Alabali-Radovan.
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Legal Design Expert at the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) — Project Lead for “Revolutionizing Access to Public Services in Guinea-Bissau” — (detailed in spotlight)
Mercator College for International Affairs — Scholarship and 12-month fellowship on legal design, data use, and AI in access to justice.
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Moving the field
Building Networks, Creating Spaces: Community and Knowledge Transfer in Practice
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Networking Meeting of Transformative Law Clinics
> Event ProgramRe:Form, Forum for the State of Tomorrow — Legislative Reform Workstream, Lead, and Workshop. (Details in Spotlight)
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CityLAB Berlin, “Public Design: Shaping the Public Sector’s Future” — Presentation at the 6th Forum.
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LovePolitics e.V. — Workshops and constellation work on inclusive and innovative legislation.
> LinkedInCivic Codic — Expert in the Federal Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs’ funding program for public-interest AI projects.
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Reimagining law
At the Edge of the Field and Beyond: Experimentation, Play and Regenerative Law
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Creative Bureaucracy Festival Academy — Workshop “Urban Value Transformation”
> Event Information
> LinkedInKosmos Festival Chemnitz — “Developing Rules Through Play: Gaming x Law.” A “Buntmacher*innen” format on citizen participation.
> LinkedInLegal Design Encyclopedia — Conceptual groundwork in the field.
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Creative Bureaucracy Festival — Workshop "Democratising Futures"
>LinkedInAufRuhr Magazine — Expert discussion “What does tomorrow’s constitution need?”
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Mercator Kolleg — Research question: How can legal design, the use of data, and artificial intelligence create greater access to justice?
> Mercator-Webpage
