Richard Susskind

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Richard Susskind (born March 28, 1961 in Paisley ) is a British lawyer . He is considered an important legal scholar in the field of the digital transformation of law .

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After studying law at the University of Glasgow from 1978 to 1983, he completed his doctorate in 1986 at Balliol College ( University of Oxford ). In 2000 he was awarded the Order of Officer of the Order of the British Empire ( OBE ) for his services to the advancement of information technology in the administration of justice. Since 2011 he has been President of the Society for Computers and Law ( London ).

Susskind has authored numerous books on the impact of digital technologies on the legal system , including The Future of Law (1996), The End of Lawyers? (2008) and Tomorrow's Lawyers: An Introduction to Your Future (2013).

The lawyers who are authoritative in the field of the digital transformation of law in Germany such as Jochen Brandhoff and Markus Hartung regularly refer to Susskind in their work.

One of his best-known theses is that legal services (e.g. the management of a process, the creation of a contract and the legal execution of a corporate transaction) are divided into many work steps and assigned to different types of activity (e.g. project management, research and legal auditing) should be. The work steps of a type of activity should be carried out by specialists (e.g. project managers or academic staff) or replaced by computer programs. In this way lawyers could concentrate on the - usually few - purely legal work steps. This "deconstruction" makes it possible to provide legal services much more efficiently than before.

Publications (selection)

  • together with Phillip Capper: Latent Damage Law - the Expert System . Butterworths Tolley, 1988, ISBN 978-0-406-02362-9 .
  • Expert Systems in Law: A Jurisprudential Inquiry . Oxford University Press, Oxford 1989, ISBN 0-19-825582-9 .
  • Essays on law and artificial intelligence . Tano, 1993, ISBN 978-82-518-3210-6 .
  • The Future of Law: Facing the Challenges of Information Technology . Oxford University Press, Oxford 2000, ISBN 978-0-19-826007-3 .
  • Transforming the Law: Essays on Technology, Justice and the Legal Marketplace . Oxford University Press, Oxford 2000, ISBN 978-0-19-829922-6 .
  • The End of Lawyers? Rethinking the Nature of Legal Services . Oxford University Press, Oxford 2008, ISBN 978-0-19-954172-0 .
  • Tomorrow's Lawyers: An Introduction To Your Future . Oxford University Press, Oxford 2013, ISBN 978-0-19-966806-9 (2nd edition 2017 ISBN 978-0198796633 ).
  • The Future of the Professions: How Technology Will Transform the Work of Human Experts . Oxford University Press, Oxford 2015, ISBN 978-0-19-871339-5 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Markus Hartung among others: Legal Tech - The digitization of the legal market . Vahlen, 2018, ISBN 978-3-406-71349-1 , pp. 5 f .
  2. ^ Jochen Brandhoff: The Understanding of the Digital Transformation - The Digital Transformation of the Law Firm and the Legal Department. In: LEGAL REVOLUTIONary. May 10, 2019, accessed June 18, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Susskind, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH March 28, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Paisley