Title of the conference: Upgrading Justice
Speaker(s): Richard Susskind
Thematic:
Invited by the Harvard University Law School for a conference, Richard Susskind lectured on the future of Justice and legal professional services through three issues :
- The pression on law firms
- Access to justice all around the world
- What impacts of legal education
During his lecture, Richard Susskind discussed the future of justice by inserting it into a context of numerical, economic and societal evolution.
Alternating economic, technological and mathematical demonstrations with anecdotes and humorous winks, Richard Susskind succeeded in approaching the question of the future of justice with singular energy and positivity, far from the ambient pessimism generally surrounding this problem.
Biography:
Professor Richard Susskind OBE is an author, speaker, and independent adviser to major professional firms and to national governments. His main area of expertise is the future of professional service and, in particular, the way in which the IT and the Internet are changing the work of lawyers. He has worked on legal technology for over 30 years. He lectures internationally, has written many books, and advised on numerous government inquiries.
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