Online courts and the future of justice / Richard Susskind.

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2019.

1st edition

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Justice, Administration of -- Technological innovations.

Actions and defences -- Technological innovations.

Courts -- Technological innovations.

Internet -- Social aspects.

Sociological jurisprudence.

Mass media and criminal justice.

Mass media and judicial power.

Part I: Courts and justice

1. Why courts matter

2. The case for change

3. Advances in technology

4. Outcome-thinking

5. Physical, virtual, online

6. Access to justice

7. Justice according to the law

8. Tackling injustice

Part II: Is court a service or a place

9. The vision

10. Architecture

11. Online guidance

12. Containing disputes

13. Online judging

14. Assisted argument

15. Law and code

16. Case studies

Part III: The case against

17. Objections

18. Economy-class justice

19. Transparency

20. A fair trial

21. Digital exclusion

22. Encouraging litigiousness

23. A jurisprudential miscellany

24. Public sector technology

Part IV: The future

25. Emerging technologies

26. Artificial intelligence

27. The computer judge

28. The global challenge.

In Online Courts and the Future of Justice, Richard Susskind, the world's most cited author on the future of legal services, shows how litigation will be transformed by technology and proposes a solution to the global access-to-justice problem. In most advanced legal systems, the resolution of civil disputes takes too long, costs too much, and the process is not just antiquated; it is unintelligible to ordinary mortals. The courts of some jurisdictions are labouring under staggering backlogs - 100 million cases in Brazil, 30 million in India. More people in the world now have internet access than access to justice. Drawing on almost 40 years in the fields of legal technology and jurisprudence, Susskind shows how we can use the remarkable reach of the internet (more than half of humanity is now online) to help people understand and enforce their legal rights. 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. - Publisher's website.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-330) and index.

9780198838364

xviii, 347 p. ; 25 cm