Richard Susskind
Legal technology author and adviser
Richard Susskind is a British author and adviser who has specialized in legal technology since the early 1980s. He has also written about how the professions may change.
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British Born 1961 in Paisley, United Kingdom
About Richard Susskind
Richard Susskind is a British author and speaker who advises international professional firms and national governments. He has worked in legal technology since the early 1980s and writes a regular column for The Times. He advised the Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales on technology from 1998 to 2023, and he is President of the Society for Computers and Law. He is also Special Envoy for Justice and artificial intelligence (AI) to the Secretary-General of the Commonwealth. Susskind is a professor at Oxford University, at Gresham College and at Strathclyde University. His doctoral thesis, written at Balliol College, Oxford in the mid-1980s, was on AI and the law. He has co-authored a book with his son, Daniel Susskind, that looks at how professional expertise may be shared in the future.