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Legal design argues for incorporating design-based methods to address problems in legal systems. It advocates for user centricity, plain language,  experimentation in how the law is developed, circulated, and used. In this presentation, I will draw from my research and practice in legal design, to explore what legal design brings to address structural injustices in society, and if and how it can address barriers to access to justice. Access to justice, as a concept, is multi-faceted and includes symbolic, locational, linguistic, informational, and financial components. It is a concept critical to ensure the participation of people in decision-making processes, greater transparency in terms of the ability to understand procedures, and accountability through holding different agencies of the State responsible. I will draw from my experiences of running Justice Adda , a law and design social venture in India, as well as from a teaching lab in The Netherlands to reflect on the potential and limitations of legal design as an approach. I hope to use the presentation to discuss with colleagues about how to develop academic outputs from my practice.