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They argue that our current professions are antiquated, opaque and no longer affordable, and that the expertise of their best is enjoyed only by a few. In their place, they propose five new models for producing and distributing expertise in society.The book raises profound policy issues, not least about employment (they envisage a new generation of 'open-collared workers') and about control over online expertise (they warn of new 'gatekeepers') - in an era when machines become more capable than human beings at most tasks.With a new preface exploring recent critical developments, this updated edition builds on the authors' groundbreaking research into more than a dozen professions. Illustrated with numerous examples from each, this is the first book to assess and question the relevance of the professions in the 21st century.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43201561329842,"sku":"9780198841890","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780198841890_21f1099c-a408-4dd7-b50d-3d0f03628854.jpg?v=1786012238"},{"product_id":"9780192849304","title":"Online Courts and the Future of Justice","description":"\u003cp\u003eOur court system is struggling. It is too costly to deliver justice for all but the few, too slow to satisfy those who can access it. Yet the values implicit in disputes being resolved in person, and in public, are fundamental to how we have imagined the fair resolution of disputes for centuries.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCould justice be delivered online? The idea has excited and appalled in equal measure, promising to bring justice to all, threatening to strike at the heart of what we mean by justice. With online courts now moving from idea to reality, we are looking at the most fundamental change to our justice system for centuries, but the public understanding of and debate about the revolution is only just beginning.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Online Courts and the Future of Justice Richard Susskind, a pioneer of rethinking law for the digital age, confronts the challenges facing our legal system and the potential for technology to bring much needed change. Drawing on years of experience leading the discussion on conceiving and delivering online justice, Susskind here charts and develops the public debate.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAgainst a background of austerity politics and cuts to legal aid, the public case for online courts has too often been framed as a business case by both sides of the debate. Are online courts preserving the public bottom line by finding efficiencies? Or sacrificing the interests of the many to deliver cut price justice?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSusskind broadens the debate by making the moral case (whether online courts are required by principles of justice) and the jurisprudential case (whether online courts are compatible with our understanding of judicial process and constitutional rights) for delivering justice online. Includes a substantial new chapter updating the book with the developments in online courts since the onset of Covid-19.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":56225641103733,"sku":"9780192849304","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":57688245109109,"sku":"9780198838364","price":28.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780192849304.jpg?v=1792686196"},{"product_id":"9780192864727","title":"Tomorrow's Lawyers","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn its first and second editions, Tomorrow's Lawyers became an international bestseller, widely read and cited by practitioners and students.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe third edition focuses on the law and lawyers in the 2020s.For Richard Susskind, the future of legal service is neither Grisham nor Rumpole.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInstead, he predicts a world of online courts, AI-based global legal businesses, disruptive legal technologies, liberalized markets, commoditization, alternative sourcing, simulated practice on the metaverse, and many new legal jobs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis volume is a definitive and updated introduction to this future - for aspiring lawyers, and for all who want to modernize and upgrade our legal and justice systems. It offers practical guidance for everyone intending to build careers and businesses in law.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten in an era of greater technological advance than humanity has ever witnessed, this work is a call to arms: it challenges those who feel that the law and lawyers are somehow immune from technological advance; it draws attention to the unaffordability and inaccessibility of legal service, for businesses and citizens alike; it invites the next generation of lawyers to harness the power of technology in improving and even overhauling the way in which legal and court service is currently provided. Tomorrow's Lawyers identifies new opportunities for lawyers, new ways of helping clients and the community. It enjoins its readers to become involved in building the systems that will replace outmoded forms of legal work. It argues that it is both a privilege and an obligation for tomorrow's lawyers to embrace and bring about change.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA must-read for legal undergraduates, aspiring and young lawyers, senior practitioners, leaders in law firms and legal businesses, law professors and law teachers.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56225682489717,"sku":"9780192864727","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780192864727_c802a658-c951-48dc-8614-43a2841e1e22.jpg?v=1786011244"},{"product_id":"9780198941927","title":"How To Think About AI","description":"Revealing the unfolding story of Artificial Intelligence, Richard Susskind presents a short non-technical guide that challenges us to think differently about AI. Susskind brings AI out of computing laboratories, big tech companies, and start-ups - and into everyday life.In recent years, and certainly since the launch of ChatGPT, there has been massive public and professional interest in Artificial Intelligence. But people are confused about what AI is, what it can and cannot do, what is yet to come, and whether AI is good or bad for humanity and civilisation - whether it will provide solutions to mankinds major challenges or become our gravest existential threat. There is also confusion about how we should regulate AI and where we should draw moral boundaries on its use. In How To Think About AI, Richard Susskind draws on his experience of working on AI since the early 1980s. For Susskind, balancing the benefits and threats of artificial intelligence is the defining challenge of our age. He explores the history of AI and possible scenarios for its future. His views on AI are not always conventional. He positions ChatGPT and generative AI as no more than the latest chapter in the ongoing story of AI and claims we are still at the foothills of developments. He argues that to think responsibly about the impact of AI requires us to look well beyond todays technologies, suggesting that not-yet-invented technologies will have far greater impact on us in the 2030s than the tools we have today. This leads Susskind to discuss the possibility of conscious machines, magnificent new AI-enabled virtual worlds, and the impact of AI on the evolution of biological humans.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":56227570647413,"sku":"9780198941927","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":57682582110581,"sku":"9780197932650","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780198941927_0d438054-4260-450b-85a7-859f4eda3631.jpg?v=1792511515"},{"product_id":"the-future-of-law-1","title":"The Future of Law","description":"The Future of Law: Reflections and Predictions marks the 30th anniversary of Richard Susskind's seminal work on the transformation of legal and court services. First published in 1996, the original edition argued that technology would fundamentally reshape legal practice and the administration of justice, an idea that many lawyers at the time dismissed. Three decades on, with artificial intelligence now advancing at a remarkable speed, many of those predictions have become reality. This anniversary edition reproduces the original text in full and unaltered form, offering readers a rare opportunity to revisit the foundations of modern thinking about law and legal technology. Alongside the classic chapters, Susskind provides new commentary for each, reflecting on what was argued 30 years ago, assessing how these ideas have endured, and considering their implications for the years ahead. In addition to looking back, the book offers an entirely new restatement of Susskind's current views on the future of law, with particular focus on the likely impact of AI on legal work, legal institutions, and access to justice. It situates contemporary developments in a broader historical context, helping readers understand how the legal world has advanced, and how profoundly it may yet change. Clear, authoritative, and forward-looking, The Future of Law: Reflections and Predictions is essential reading for practitioners, judges, policymakers, technologists, academics, and anyone interested in the evolving relationship between law and digital technology.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57499247608181,"sku":"9780197919088","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780197919088.jpg?v=1791213057"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-richard-susskind.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}