Harvard NeuroLaw Library
Our collaboration with Harvard’s NeuroLaw Library is rooted in a shared dedication to excellence and innovation— making information accessible and user-friendly. By leveraging Google’s Gemini 1.5 Pro, we’ve adapted complex materials into multiple reading levels, ensuring accessibility for all. This is a significant step toward making critical neuroscience knowledge available to all, leveling the playing field in courtrooms, and promoting justice.
Enhancing Comprehension with Gemini
Monogram was given special access to Gemini, Google’s AI model, allowing us to generate multiple levels of comprehension for scientific texts, based on various educational standards. This innovative technology ensures that complex materials can be understood quickly by individuals with differing levels of education. By tailoring content to specific reading levels, Gemini enhances accessibility and comprehension, enabling justice-involved individuals to engage with critical neuroscience information effectively. This capability not only supports their educational development but also empowers them to make informed decisions, thereby contributing to fairer and more effective judicial outcomes. Through the implementation of Gemini, the NeuroLaw Library exemplifies a commitment to inclusivity and accessibility in the legal and scientific communities.
Static Next.js Integration with Dynamic Revalidation
By harnessing the static generation capabilities of Next.js 14 alongside dynamic revalidation, the NeuroLaw Library ensures users have fast and dependable access to assistive information, even in slow service areas.
Content Management with Contentful
In the realm of content management, Contentful serves as the backbone of the CLBB NeuroLaw Library's digital infrastructure. Contentful decouples content from the presentation layer, enabling seamless updates without compromising website performance. The integration of Contentful's webhooks with Next.js 14's app router provides real-time updates to the site, ensuring that the latest information is always available.
Advanced Content Management with GraphQL
Furthermore, GraphQL was employed to fetch content, using a structured and typed content model to enhance the efficiency, performance, consistency, and flexibility of data retrieval. This intuitive setup empowers the NeuroLaw Library team to take full control of their content, ensuring timely updates and maintaining quality. By integrating Contentful into the development workflow, Monogram has delivered a robust and future-proof content management solution for the NeuroLaw Library, enhancing its ability to serve as a vital resource for the legal and judicial communities.
Revolutionizing Legal Resources
The CLBB NeuroLaw Library (https://clbbneurolawlibrary.com/) offers free, open access to accurate neuroscience information. Designed to benefit defense attorneys, prosecutors, judges, probation and parole officers, advocates, incarcerated individuals, and their families. This meticulously curated collection includes journal articles, amicus briefs, affidavits, educational videos, a neurolaw dictionary, and specialized toolkits for attorneys and incarcerated persons, all designed to support and inform the legal and judicial communities.
Streamlined User Acceptance Testing with Vercel Comments
A pivotal phase in the development of the CLBB NeuroLaw Library's website was the User Acceptance Testing (UAT) process, which was seamlessly facilitated by Vercel Comments. This innovative tool empowered stakeholders to provide feedback directly within the deployment environment, streamlining communication and collaboration. Team members could pinpoint specific elements on the website, leave feedback, and track changes without ever leaving the deployment environment. By reducing the feedback loop and expediting the implementation process, Vercel Comments played a crucial role in ensuring that the final website met both the design and functional benchmarks set by the NeuroLaw Library.
Final Thoughts
The partnership between Monogram and the CLBB NeuroLaw Library showcases the potential of combining expertise, innovation, and advanced technology. By leveraging modern tools, we have crafted an engaging and user-friendly platform that transforms how legal and judicial information is accessed. This initiative highlights our collective dedication to quality and the accessibility of crucial neuroscience data. Ultimately, we have developed an invaluable resource that caters to legal professionals, justice-involved individuals, incarcerated persons, and anyone in need of legal information, establishing a new benchmark for digital excellence and public service. For more information on how Monogram is using AI to empower incarcerated youth, read the full Inc article here.
Monogram was integral to designing the CLBB NeuroLaw Library at Massachusetts General Hospital. They are the best of the best.
Stephanie TabashneckFounding Director, CLBB NeuroLaw Library
