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Richard Susskind, The Future of Law, Facing Challenges of Information Technology

Richard Susskind, The Future of Law, Facing Challenges of Information Technology 388 BOOK REVIEW understand the possibilities that information technology and AI may offer to legal practice. This stops them from offering input and feedback to the AI and Law com- munity. Susskind’s book partly bridges this gap in both knowledge of and interest in the field. Hopefully this will give a new impulse to research and developments in AI and Law. Next to the introduction ‘The future of law’ contains four parts. The intro- duction gives us some messages, including a formidable one for members of the legal profession: “I claim throughout the book that lawyers’ failure to embrace the techniques and applications of IT discussed here will result, in due course, in their providing a substantial disservice to the community” (p. 3). Part one then describes the theory underlying this claim. In this part Susskind explains how the evolution of society puts many demands on the law and the lawyer. Hyperregulation, the greater competition of the lawyers, the greater demands of the clients and international- ization are some of the factors that have caused the greater workload of lawyers. Susskind then presents one of the possible solutions: the use of IT, although there still is a lot to http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Artificial Intelligence and Law Springer Journals

Richard Susskind, The Future of Law, Facing Challenges of Information Technology

Artificial Intelligence and Law , Volume 7 (4) – Sep 30, 2004
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Springer Journals
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Copyright © 1999 by Kluwer Academic Publishers
Subject
Computer Science; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); International IT and Media Law, Intellectual Property Law; Philosophy of Law; Legal Aspects of Computing; Information Storage and Retrieval
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0924-8463
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1572-8382
DOI
10.1023/A:1008386826869
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388 BOOK REVIEW understand the possibilities that information technology and AI may offer to legal practice. This stops them from offering input and feedback to the AI and Law com- munity. Susskind’s book partly bridges this gap in both knowledge of and interest in the field. Hopefully this will give a new impulse to research and developments in AI and Law. Next to the introduction ‘The future of law’ contains four parts. The intro- duction gives us some messages, including a formidable one for members of the legal profession: “I claim throughout the book that lawyers’ failure to embrace the techniques and applications of IT discussed here will result, in due course, in their providing a substantial disservice to the community” (p. 3). Part one then describes the theory underlying this claim. In this part Susskind explains how the evolution of society puts many demands on the law and the lawyer. Hyperregulation, the greater competition of the lawyers, the greater demands of the clients and international- ization are some of the factors that have caused the greater workload of lawyers. Susskind then presents one of the possible solutions: the use of IT, although there still is a lot to

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