Transforming the Law : Essays on Technology, Justice and the Legal Marketplace

ISBN-13: 9780198299226 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 320 str.

Richard E. Susskind

Opis

This is the latest book from law and technology guru Richard Susskind, author of the best-selling The Future of Law. It brings together in one volume eleven significant essays on the application of IT to legal practice and the administration of justice, including Susskind's very latest thinking on key topics like knowledge management and the impact of electronic commerce.

Recenzje

I would recommend this book to anyone interested in thinking about the changes that are being wrought by information technology in the law and courts arena.

O autorze

Professor Richard Susskind OBE FRSE DPhil LIB FBCS is one of the leading experts in the application of IT to law. He has specialized in that field for nineteen years and, since 1997, has been an independent adviser to various parts of government and for large private sector firms and companies. He lectures and consults internationally. He is past chairman of the Society for Computers and Law (1990-92), was Lord Woolf's IT Adviser during the Access to Justice Inquiry (1995-96), and was appointed IT Adviser to the Lord Chief Justice in 1998. Since 1990, he has been Visiting Professor to the Centre for Law, Computers and Technology, at Strathclyde University. In 1999, he was appointed by the Cabinet Office to the Modernising Government Project Board. In the Christmas Honours his services to Legal Justice were acknowledged with an OBE. He has published two of his four books with OUP, see below. And has been General Editor of The International Journal for Law and Information Technology