Will the legal professions survive the current revolution in information technology?

"The computer will condition every facet of human life in the future, and so far as law is used to regulate that life, it will affect the development of the law." Legalism , termed by Shklar , suggests that law can be set off form the world around it and viewed as a reasonably stable, logical system which somehow controls the real world that lies outside the system. In the legalistic view, we could almost imagine two …

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