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
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.
In summary, Susskind's latest book is another extraordinary
contribution to justice reform. It is an engaging work that will
hopefully spark debate and reform. It is written with a lively tone
and provides much food for thought about what our justice systems
could look like now and into the future.
*Tania Sourdin, University of Newcastle, Australia, Journal of Law
and Society*
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