Law School 2061Ψ

The comic books of my youth were remarkably bad at forecasting the future.While the nondystopian books envisaged that, by this point in history, the majority of us would be living on other planets, with the children who remained on earth piloting themselves to school in their own personal helicopters, the dystopian ones foresaw humanity enmired in various catastrophes, one of which culminated in the rise of earthly Mega-Cities policed by Street Judges. 1 None of these things has yet come to pass.What about other, possibly more momentous but also more prosaic prophesies, such as those about the future of law, legal practice and legal education?Are claims that real court buildings will be unnecessary, that algorithms will replace judges, and that law will 'drive itself' any more likely to be accurate than those of my childhood comic books? 2 That lawyers are in a position to assess such claims is principally the result of the work of jurists like Roger Brownsword.Brownsword is our leading and most interesting jurist of technological management and can be placed, alongside other legal futurologists like Marielle Hildebrandt and Richard Susskind, 3 at the informed and pragmatic end of the futurology spectrum: their claims about our legal future are rooted in a deep understanding of our legal past and present rather than the product of either utopian  My title derives from R.