MAGIC JusTICe Lab
Imagine better justice. Build it together.
The innovation and experimentation arm of JusTICe, bringing law, artificial intelligence, governance, technology, and human values together.
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Mindful AI Governance and Innovation for Compassionate Justice
The Lab is the physical and operational heart of JusTICe's second mandate: a dedicated space for turning justice challenges into ideas, prototypes, and tested solutions. It brings together justice institutions, legal professionals, technologists, researchers, and designers to co-design and experiment.
Principles
Three commitments behind every experiment
Human values first
Innovation begins with the people it affects. Research and experimentation should be accessible, accountable, and sensitive to context.
Learn by experimenting
Explore questions, test assumptions, and share lessons through appropriately reviewed prototypes and collaborative inquiry.
Responsible technology
AI and digital tools should support sound governance and human judgement, not replace accountability or legal authority.
MAGIC is an innovation laboratory, not a court, a regulator, or a provider of legal advice.
Inside the Lab
From justice problem to adopted solution
Every idea follows the same structured pathway, shaped by constitutional values, GNH, and environmental sustainability.
- Identify the problem
- Prototype
- Controlled testing
- Evaluate
- Adopt and scale
AI and responsible innovation
AI capabilities, limitations, evaluation, and human oversight in justice-related settings.
Legal technology
Accessible information, document workflows, and prototype tools, with appropriate institutional supervision.
Governance and ethics
The rules, values, accountability structures, and safeguards needed for trustworthy innovation.
Learning and participation
Opportunities for students, researchers, and collaborators to learn through demonstrations and discussion.
These themes describe areas for exploration. They are not operational legal services.
The space
Two rooms, one framework
Technical facility
Computing infrastructure to develop and test AI-based solutions, including high-performance resources for multi-agent AI systems and other emerging technologies.
Open project space
Where technologists, lawyers, students, and other stakeholders meet to exchange ideas and work through legal and technical questions together.
Data and digital governance
A defined data security and access control framework: role-based permissions, secure handling of justice sector data, and physical access controls.
The Lab operates within JSW Law's current campus, with plans to move to a purpose-built space once the new campus is completed.
Collaboration
JSW Law and MetaZone
The MAGIC JusTICe Lab is a collaboration between Jigme Singye Wangchuck School of Law and MetaZone, Singapore.
Computing for the Lab is powered by OurOwn, a proprietary platform of MetaZone. OurOwn provides the computing foundation for AI and technology experimentation at the Lab.
Rooted in the law school
Clinics and centres bring the real problems
JSW Law's clinics and centres are pathways for identifying real-world justice challenges and, where ethically and legally appropriate, co-designing and testing responses. Students work alongside technologists, researchers, and practitioners on supervised projects.
- Human Dignity Clinic
- Appropriate Dispute Resolution Clinic
- Entrepreneurship Clinic
- Environment Clinic
- Research and Library Centre
- Climate Change & Environmental Law Centre
- Wisdom Centre for Justice Sectors