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Future-Proofing the Legal Mind: What Tomorrow’s Lawyers by Richard Susskind Demands of Students Today

Future-Proofing the Legal Mind: What Tomorrow’s Lawyers by Richard Susskind Demands of Students Today

Richard Susskind has authored the book Tomorrow’s Lawyers: An Introduction to Your Future which is in its 3rd edition and has become an international bestseller. The book is published by Oxford University Press, Oxford. As technology is becoming relevant in the public profession of law and as the artificial intelligence is leading its future pathway, therefore, the book is relevant for legal education in Pakistan as also in all other countries of the world. I have written book review of this wonderful book on the topic for dissemination to a wider audience including law students, lawyers, judges, and legal academics.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ OUP Oxford

Publication date ‏ : ‎ 7 Feb. 2023

Language ‏ : ‎ English

Print length ‏ : ‎ 320 pages

ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0192864726

ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0192864727

Item weight ‏ : ‎ 340 g

Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 20.29 x 1.47 x 12.8 cm

Best Sellers Rank: 143,553 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

2,784 in Computing & Internet

What the lawyers of future need to read is a question that can only be answered if one knows what the public profession of law may demand from them. Discussing the future is always predictive. Certainty only arrives when it is coupled with experience. Experience comes with experimentation. Experimentation requires human action. Richard Susskind[3] is a future visionary to guide all of us if we intend to be lawyers of tomorrow. Tomorrow has many new things which we are not experiencing right now but due to incremental change in society, a perpetual phenomenon we anticipate being interacting with. Today, to travel into the future, we will go through an impactful book authored by a leader in law and technology to make ourselves aware of as to what can be the challenges of tomorrow as a law student, a lawyer, a judge, a legal academic, a law researcher, a parliamentarian, a public servant, and so on and so forth.

The book in hand is in its third edition and an international bestseller by the Oxford University Press for tomorrow’s lawyers to introduce them towards the challenges of future. The author, when decided to publish its first edition in the year 2013, has written in preface to the first edition:

“I have written this book to provide tomorrows lawyer and legal educators with an accessible account of the pressing issues that currently face the legal profession and the justice system.”

The author further emphasized the importance of change in the world of law in the following words:

“…We are, I have no doubt, on the brink of fundamental change in the world of law, and my main aim is to encourage wider discussion of the forces at play and their likely impact.”

The book remained in the field for four years when the author published its second edition in the year 2016. This shows that the change in the public profession of law in the previous two decades has been massive and thus the need to bring second edition became relevant to the times. To give a flavor:

“…many major law firms have since setup low cost service centers to undertake routine legal work; the Big 4 accounting firms have rapidly grown their global legal capabilities; there has been a great upsurge of legaltech start-ups, now well over 1,000 worldwide; the idea of artificial intelligence (AI) in law has captured the imagination of innovators across the profession…”

The author went on to highlight the importance of technology in the field of law by mentioning that:

“…senior judges have been strongly advocating the wider use of technology; the British government has........

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