LawAtlas by Graphicacy

Graphicacy helped Temple University’s Center for Public Health Law Research revamp their scientific legal mapping tool for global usage. Since 2016, the LawAtlas, maintained by the Center for Public Health Law Research (CPHLR) at Temple University, has been a vital resource for public health law and policy. With funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, CPHLR partnered with Graphicacy and principal design partner, Eli Holder of 3iap, to make the tool more accessible to a broader audience, including government officials, public health practitioners, journalists, and the general public.

The redesign overhauled the user experience with interactive data visualizations to replace static tables and dense text. The new tool is built with a flexible interface that allows users to explore and search over 200 legal datasets in map or table formats, filter variables, and track the evolution of laws across jurisdictions. Project innovations included visual representations of multivariate U.S. and global tile maps indicating legal policy statuses for particular topics.