Bracton Law Lecture 2011 - Access to justice, legal education, and 21st century legal service

Professor Susskind used the lecture to discuss the recent shifts and changes to the legal profession and legal services, the present review of legal education, and how lawyers need to change the way they work to embrace the broader developments of the 21st Century. For a print friendly overview of the lecture, please see the outline of Professor Susskind's Bracton Law Lecture

While at the Law School, Professor Susskind also led a thought-provoking workshop debating the question "Tesco law and online advice: is this the future of legal services?" and took part in lively discussions with students and staff. The event was highly successful, and the Law School is extremely grateful to Professor Susskind for his generous engagement with legal life at Exeter.

Professor Susskind is a pioneer in the field of information technology and law.  He is the IT Advisor to the Lord Chief Justice of England & Wales, Emeritus Professor of Law at Gresham College, London. He writes a regular column in the Law section of The Times newspaper. He has written a number of global best-selling books, including ‘The End of Lawyers: Rethinking the Nature of Legal Services’ (2010) and ‘Transforming the Law’ (2000) and is the co-founder of the Centre for Law, Computers and Technology at the Law School of the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow. He is President of the Society for Computers and Law and Chairman of the Advisory Board at the Oxford Internet Institute. Professor Susskind holds professorships at Oxford University, Strathclyde University, and Gresham College; and his work has been translated into 10 languages. He is an independent adviser to major professional firms and to national governments.

Richard has a first class honours degree in law from the University of Glasgow and a doctorate in law and computers from Balliol College, Oxford. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and of the British Computer Society, and was awarded an OBE in the Millennium New Year's Honours List for services to IT in the Law and to the Administration of Justice.