Nóra Al Haider is the Assistant Director at the Stanford Legal Design Lab. Nóra is a multilingual lawyer and interdisciplinary researcher. She combines the fields of law, design, data and tech to increase access to justice and equity in the legal system.

Her pioneering and innovative creations, from social media bots that provide legal advice to analyzing the legal needs of users on online platforms, earned her acclaim in the legal design field. Nóra’s legal design projects and interactive art installations have been spotlighted at courts, bar associations, legal organizations and in law schools around the world.

Nóra teaches a series of project-based classes in collaboration with the Harvard Graduate School of Design and MIT. During these classes, interdisciplinary student groups explore, research and design user-friendly products, services and systems for legal challenges that are put forward by project partners.

One of her current research interests focuses on virtual legal systems. This project track, developed by Nóra, explores legal services and systems that were created during and in the aftermath of the pandemic. She has a special interest in developing and designing user-friendly virtual legal services, online remote proceedings platforms and hybrid court houses.

Nóra is known for collaborating with a wide range of partners. Her most recent collaborations include working with Virgil Abloh, Oana Stănescu, the NAACP, the National League of Cities and several courts, government institutions and legal aid organizations in the United States.

Nóra is driven by merging various disciplines, processes, and methodologies to enact systemic change in the justice system. Nóra holds a Bachelor (honours) and Research Master in Law from Utrecht University in the Netherlands.