1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910788590103321

Autore

Susskind Richard E.

Titolo

The end of lawyers? : rethinking the nature of legal services / / Richard Susskind

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2008

ISBN

0-19-150111-5

9780199593613

Edizione

[Rev. ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (lii, 303 p. ) : ill

Disciplina

340.0285

Soggetti

Practice of law - Automation

Lawyers - Effect of technological innovations on

Justice, Administration of - Automation

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previous ed.: 2008.

Formerly CIP.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction; 1. The beginning of the end; The challenge for lawyers; Four thoughts; A journey; The Future of Law; Progress over the last decade; The flow of this book; 2. The evolution of legal service; The path to commoditisation; The pull of the market; Shedding light on various conundra; Decomposing legal service; Resourcing the evolution; Two case studies; 3. Trends in technology; Exponential growth; Information satisfaction; Community and collaboration; The net generation; Clicks and mortals; Disruptive technologies; 4. Disruptive legal technologies; Document assembly; Online community; e-learning; Personalised alerting; The electronic market; Online legal guidance; Embedded legal content; 5. The client grid; The asymmetry of lawyers and clients; The law firm grid; The client grid; Three possible models; Meeting clients' challenges; The role of clients; 6. Resolving and dissolving disputes; Litigation support revisited; Electronic disclosure; Electronic filing; Case management; Online dispute resolution; Dispute avoidance; 7. Access to law and to justice; Public information policy; Critique; Current systems; Promulgation; A law unto itself?; AFTERWORD

Sommario/riassunto

This work examines the effect of advances in IT upon legal practice,



and analyses anticipated developments. It explores the extent to which the role of the traditional lawyer can be sustained in the face of the challenging trends in the legal market and new techniques and technologies for the delivery of services.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910972424903321

Autore

Mein Andrew

Titolo

Ezekiel and the ethics of exile / / Andrew Mein

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, c2001

ISBN

0-19-152302-X

0-19-151625-2

1-282-36582-7

9786610819621

0-19-929139-X

9786612365829

1-280-81962-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (298 pages)

Collana

Oxford theological monographs

Disciplina

224/.406

Soggetti

Jews - History - Babylonian captivity, 598-515 B.C

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Moral Worlds: Ancient Israelite Ethics in a Social Context; 2. Ezekiel and the Exiles; 3. The World of Politics; 4. The Politics of Cult; 5. Ritual and Ethics; 6. The 'Domestication' of Ethics; 7. From Responsibility to Passivity; Conclusion: Ezekiel and the Ethics of Exile; Bibliography; Index of Authors; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z; Index of Biblical References

Sommario/riassunto

The two 'moral worlds' of Jerusalem and exile provide the key to Ezekiel's ethics. The prophet both offers an explanation of the disaster in terms familiar to his hearers' past experience, and provides ethical strategies for coping with the far more limited possibilities of life in Babylonia. - ;Whereas much recent work on the ethics of the Hebrew



Bible addresses the theological task of using the Bible as a moral resource for today, this book aims to set Ezekiel's ethics firmly in the social and historical context of the Babylonian Exile. The two 'moral worlds' of Jerusalem and Babylonia provide the key. Ezekiel explains the disaster in terms familiar to his audience's past experience as members of Judah's political elite. He also provides ethical strategies for coping with. the more limited possibilities of life in Babylonia, which include the ritualization of ethics, an increasing emphasis on the domestic and personal sphere of action, and a shift towards human passivity in the face of restoration. Thus the prophet's moral concerns and priorities are substantially. shaped by the social experience of deportation and resettlement. They also represent a creative response to the crisis, providing significant impetus for social cohesion and the maintenance of a distinctively Jewish community.