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In this book Richard Susskind, a pioneer of rethinking law for the digital age confronts the challenges facing our legal system and the potential for technology to bring much needed change. Drawing on years of experience leading the discussion on conceiving and delivering online justice, Susskind here charts and develops the public debate.
List of contents
- PART ONE - CONTEXT
- 1: The case for change
- 2: Advances in technology
- 3: Thinking strategically
- 4: Legal theory of courts
- 5: Physical, virtual, online hearings
- 6: Access to justice revisited
- PART TWO - ARCHITECTURE
- 7: The vision
- 8: Online guidance
- 9: Assisted argument
- 10: Containment
- 11: Online resolution by judges
- 12: Civil, criminal, family disputes
- 13: Case studies
- PART THREE - THE CASE AGAINST
- 14: Economy-class justice
- 15: Adversarial v investigatory
- 16: Open justice and fair trial
- 17: Face-to-face justice
- 18: Digital exclusion
- 19: Loss of majesty
- 20: Public sector technology
- PART FOUR - THE FUTURE
- 21: Machine learning and prediction
- 22: Technology-mediated negotiation
- 23: Artificial intelligence
- 24: Telepresence, augmented reality and virtual reality
- 25: The role for human beings
- Further Reading
About the author
Professor Richard Susskind OBE is an author, speaker, and independent adviser to international professional firms and national governments. He is President of the Society for Computers and Law, IT Adviser to the Lord Chief Justice of England, and Chair of the Advisory Board of the Oxford Internet Institute. His numerous books include the best-sellers, The End of Lawyers? (OUP, 2008) and Tomorrow's Lawyers (OUP, 2013), his work has been translated into more than 10 languages, and he has been invited to speak in over 40 countries.
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In this book Richard Susskind, a pioneer of rethinking law for the digital age confronts the challenges facing our legal system and the potential for technology to bring much needed change. Drawing on years of experience leading the discussion on conceiving and delivering online justice, Susskind here charts and develops the public debate.
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... remains the most necessary and pressing legal text for every court user given the current climate... is not just for those with the power to effect change, it is for every single user who works in our court system... We have been given a miraculous opportunity to make a hundred years-worth of progress in less than a generation. We all have the duty to make this opportunity count, not just to turn up to work, make our money, and go home. Online Courts must be the foundation for all conversations, immediate and long term, about the future of our justice system.
