Monthly Archives: October, 2026
Kiwumulo George, ‘The harms caused by the Internet of Things: categorising damage and legal liability under the EU and UK liability frameworks’
ABSTRACT The Internet of Things blurs the line between virtual and physical worlds. Increasingly, adaptive and autonomous IoT systems have changed the way we interact socially and economically; emerging technology will continue to integrate pervasive IoT systems into society. These systems are increasingly complex, and the likelihood of harm is high. Existing laws and regulations […]
Singh and Singh, ‘Unleashing the protector’s wider role in A and 6 others v C and 13 others [2026] UKPC 11′
ABSTRACT This case note examines A and 6 others v C and 13 others [2026] UKPC 11 (‘Re the X Trusts’), in which the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council clarified the default role of trust protectors exercising consent powers. Holding that, unless the trust instrument provides otherwise, protectors may exercise an independent judgment on […]
Hong Wu, ‘The Duty-of-Care Dilemma of Companion AI in Mental Health: Care Ethics and Regulatory Responses under EU Law’
ABSTRACT Companion AI in mental health, anthropomorphic conversational systems providing emotional support across sustained periods of use, has moved from prototypes to mass-market products, and recent suicide cases in Europe and beyond have brought its risks to the centre of EU digital governance. This article argues that the EU’s regulatory framework, the AI Act, the […]
Fernando Cardenas Piepereit, ‘Who Owns the Rain? AI Contribution, Human Authorship, and a Status of Its Own’
ABSTRACT Who holds the rights to what an AI system contributes to a work, and when does a legal order need a status for AI that is not derived from the human? Taking EU, US and Chinese law as the baseline, I test four models against one yardstick: existing law plus disclosure and operator duties, […]
Leow and Liau, ‘A Comparative Common Law Study on Restitution from the State’
ABSTRACT When should restitution from the State be available? The jurisdictions examined in this paper – England, Canada, Australia – once gave a common answer to this question, but they no longer do, for reasons concerning both these jurisdictions’ constitutional and unjust enrichment laws. The aim of this article is to provide an account of […]
David Erdos, ‘The CJEU limits freedom of expression under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR): C-199/24 Legal Newsdesk Sweden’
ABSTRACT Legal Newsdesk concerned a paid search service providing criminal information on individuals. Disclosure was not oriented towards a collective public and so clearly fell outside of journalism. The CJEU further held that journalistic disclosure must be ‘in compliance with the rules and codes of conduct of the profession of journalist’ and ‘factual allegations’ must […]
Engstrom and Qian, ‘How Tort Law Drives Change’
ABSTRACT Tort law is conventionally understood as a blunt, backward-looking, money-moving instrument. On the standard account, tort law promotes safety – if at all – by forcing defendants to internalize the costs of accidents. Money, in other words, is the sine qua non of tort’s deterrent effect – the system’s engine, and beating heart. This […]
Xiyin Tang, ‘Ex Ante Copyright’
ABSTRACT Copyright law is famously described in ex post terms. Much emphasis is placed on the doctrine’s various uncertainties, resolved only after lengthy and expensive litigation. Few have considered the role that the billion-dollar entertainment insurance industry might play in reversing this typical narrative. Elsewhere, insurance law scholars have long acknowledged insurance’s role as an […]
‘The Real Housewife of William Blackstone’
Julia Rudolph, ‘William Blackstone, Family Man: New Contexts in Gender, Jurisprudence, and Jamaica’, Law & History Review 1 (2026). William Blackstone is, of course, an omnipresent name for law students and law professors alike. At least once a week during the semester, I teach a Supreme Court opinion that cites the eighteenth-century English jurist’s writings […]
Ian Williams, ‘Precedent in Early-Modern Equity: The View from the Star Chamber’
ABSTRACT Precedent played an important role in theoretically one-off equitable interventions becoming regular, and equity becoming more law-like. However, the available sources limit our ability to understand the role of precedent in the Chancery in the key formative decades around 1600. This article uses the court of Star Chamber as a proxy for the other […]