ABSTRACT
Using LEGO® in education has been shown to unlock creativity and strengthen lateral connections between ideas and concepts. In this paper, we present a series of LEGO-based educational games, in which students use playful, multi-sensory learning techniques and visual metaphors to construct legal concepts and analysis for problem questions in contract law. Students are tasked with LEGO activities across several workstations where they progress from modelling key concepts in contract law to extracting and colour-coding the analytical building blocks of legal advice to build, using LEGO bricks, an abstract model which represents its content, structure and logic. Those taking part demonstrated the successful consolidation and application of legal knowledge, while practising the skill of communication using accessible, non-textual means. We argue that the multi-sensory experience complements abstract, black letter, and text-based approaches to legal doctrines. We conclude that the LEGO-based educational game offers a constructivist learning and teaching tool for problem solving that enables reflective practice, active participation, and abstract conceptualisation, and plays an important role in the 21st century context of legal education. Building with LEGO is also great fun.
Marton Ribary and Antony Starza-Allen, Breaking down (and building up) problem solving in contract law with LEGO®, Law Teacher. Published online: 12 November 2025.
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