The role of the jurist in the age of Legal Design

The jurist, the person appointed to resolve legal issues, such as law is subject to all the influences and developments that the evolution of humanity brings. In the digital world, jurist takes on a much larger role than in the past. She/He becomes an architect of change, as a creator, inventor and interpreter of law. Knowledge of technological tools and new digital rights require the legal expert to protect freedoms and to participate in the progress of the nation, in order to contribute to the development of the legal system for the purposes of justice. The article is developed in three stages. First, we provide the fundamentals of Legal Design; then it reconstructs the European and Italian legal framework. Finally, it shows the results of a questionnaire submitted to a sample of participants from the legal and non-legal world. The aim is to demonstrate how the simplification of legal language and communication can make the law more accessible and understandable. The article highlights how Legal Design is supposed to simplify and facilitate communication between legal experts and people.