Our Collection Services Manager David Rutland has the opportunity to see all of the law library’s great new books before the rest of us! Here, he will occasionally highlight the best of our new acquisitions.
By David Rutland and Geraldine Kalim
If you are curious about the impact of technology on the legal industry, or how lawyers can harness technology to address access to justice issues, consider checking out one of our new titles, Online Courts and the Future of Justice by Richard Susskind.
From the book jacket, “…Online courts provide ‘online judging’ – the determination of cases by human judges but not in physical courtrooms. Instead, evidence and arguments are submitted through online platforms through which judges also deliver their decisions.
Online courts also use technology to enable courts to deliver more than judicial decisions. These ‘extended courts’ provide tools to help users understand relevant law and available options, and to formulate arguments and assemble evidence. They offer non-judicial settlements such as negotiation and early neutral evaluation, not as an alternative to the public court system, but as part of it.
A pioneer of online courts, Susskind maintains that they will displace much conventional litigation. He rigorously assesses the benefits and drawbacks, and looks ahead, predicting how AI, machine learning, and virtual reality will likely come to dominate court service.”
You can find the transcript of an interview with the author on the ABA Journal‘s website.
You will be able to find this book on the Balcony at K2100 .S87 2019, but for the next week we will be featuring the book near the display table at our Circulation Desk.
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