Abstract:
Richard Susskind will argue that the fundamental question we must ask is, ‘what are we training aspiring lawyers to become?’ He will claim that our law schools, too often, are generating 20th century lawyers rather than 21st century legal professionals; and that what we teach and how we teach must change radically if legal education is to keep apace with the fundamental changes we are seeing in the way that lawyers and courts operate.
Speaker:
Professor Richard Susskind, Honorary Professor, UCL
Professor Richard Susskind OBE is President of the Society for Computers and Law and Chair of the Advisory Board at the Oxford Internet Institute. Since 1998, he has been Technology Adviser to the Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales. He has written 10 books, including Tomorrow’s Lawyers (2013, 2017) and Online Courts and the Future of Justice (2019). He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and of the British Computer Society, and holds professorships at Oxford University, Strathclyde University, UCL, and Gresham College.