legallens
Legallens is a conceptual framework used in legal studies and practice to analyze legal problems through multiple interpretive lenses rather than relying on a single approach. The term blends legal analysis with the idea of viewing issues through distinct perspectives, with the aim of making reasoning more transparent and the resulting recommendations more robust. It is employed in teaching, policy analysis, and legal research to reveal underlying assumptions, tradeoffs, and the potential effects of different interpretations.
The legallens framework encourages analysts to identify a set of relevant lenses, such as textual statutory
In practice, legallens guides a disciplined process: defining the issue, selecting applicable lenses, gathering sources under
Critiques of legallens focus on the risk of subjective bias in lens selection and weighting, which can