‘The Centre for Legal Technology at Ulster University has unveiled a new partnership with lawtech company StructureFlow to teach law students how to use AI and visual modelling.’ Link: https://www.legalfutures.co.uk/latest-news/law-students-set-to-learn-al-and-visual-modelling-skills

‘Educators are not always aware of the implications of using the latest shiny AI tool. Laura Milne offers guidance on balancing educational value with institutional priorities.’ Link: https://www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/how-choose-right-ai-tools-teaching

‘This article examines the legal, ethical, and pedagogical implications of integrating artificial intelligence (AI) into law enforcement. Utilizing a comparative framework, the study analyzes AI surveillance governance in the European Union and the United States, highlighting the tension between the EU’s rights-centered regulatory model and the U.S. Fourth Amendment tradition. Beyond legal analysis, the article…

‘Artificial intelligence systems increasingly generate conduct that appears intentional. They negotiate, advise, adapt to obstacles, and shape human decision-making. Yet they are not legal persons and lack minds in any conventional sense. This Article argues that the apparent impasse dissolves once legal intent is understood functionally rather than metaphysically. Across contract, tort, corporate, and criminal…

‘The University of California, Berkeley Law School has adopted a new, more strict policy governing law students’ use of AI. The rule, which goes into effect this summer, forbids their use of AI for most activities associated with academic work that’s submitted for credit.’ Link: https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaeltnietzel/2026/05/22/uc-berkeley-law-school-adopts-new-strict-ban-on-ai-use-by-students/

‘In penning their national AI strategies governments are not only deciding how to regulate AI. They are also defining what AI should deliver, from economic growth to public-sector transformation. A text-based analysis using x.Machina, the open-access governance mapping platform co-founded by Elise Antoine and Adam Chalmers, shows that these priorities combine in more varied ways than the familiar American, European and…

‘A one-size-fits-all approach to AI training risks leaving students unprepared for the discipline-specific demands of their future careers. Rose Luckin explores what field-specific AI literacy looks like in practice.’ Link: https://www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/why-ai-literacy-must-be-discipline-specific

‘A federal judge in Alabama has suspended a lawyer from practicing in his court for six months after finding the attorney submitted a brief with false quotations and impeded ​a probe into whether an AI program was used to draft the filing.’ Link: https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/judge-says-lawyers-ai-use-risks-career-altering-consequences-2026-05-22/

‘Artificial intelligence (AI) firm Anthropic says testing of its new system revealed it is sometimes willing to pursue “extremely harmful actions” such as attempting to blackmail engineers who say they will remove it.’ Link: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cpqeng9d20go

‘Given the increasing integration of Artificial Intelligence(AI) into everyday life and professional contexts, it is essential to investigate learners’ existing capabilities regarding AI tools to inform possible interventions to equip them with necessary AI skills, but also advance the theoretical frameworks on digital skills measurement and development. In this vein, this study aims to validate…

‘Winona Chan takes a look at recent moves by the ICO and CMA in the face of agentic AI and what they mean in practice.’ Link: https://www.scl.org/when-ai-acts-the-uk-regulatory-response-to-agentic-ai/

‘Researchers have used top Generative AI models to grade hundreds of undergraduate essays and found that AI only matched human-awarded degree classification around half the time, with AI often failing to assess the best and worst submissions accurately.’ Link: https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/ai-university-essay-grading

‘Having considered the AI transcript chats it seems to me that the production of the letters may well have resulted from a serious lack of care and of judgment on the part of LA (Lawyer A) rather than a want of honesty. There is nothing to suggest that LA checked any of the references generated…

‘In what we think may be a first, the judgment in a recent fact-finding case was handed down with two additional versions, generated with artificial intelligence software, one in simplified language, the other in bullet points and emoji.’ Link: https://transparencyproject.org.uk/make-it-simple-make-it-clear-using-ai-to-improve-clarity-and-understanding-of-a-judgment/

‘A junior solicitor who used artificial intelligence (AI) to draft two misleading emails to the High Court “seems to have almost entirely outsourced the thinking process to the program”, the judge has said.’ Link: https://www.legalfutures.co.uk/latest-news/junior-solicitor-used-ai-to-draft-misleading-letters-to-court

‘ArXiv, the open-access repository of preprint academic research, will ban authors of papers for a year if they submit obviously AI-generated work.’ Link: https://www.404media.co/new-arxiv-rules-ai-generated-papers-ban/

‘Two-in-five UK universities have no AI policy that a student, parent or regulator can easily find online, according to What UK University AI Policies Actually Do: A Study of 96 Institutions (HEPI Policy Note 71) by Professor Sam Illingworth.’ Link: https://www.hepi.ac.uk/reports/what-uk-university-ai-policies-actually-do-a-study-of-96-institutions/

‘One in three university students think AI will wipe out jobs so rapidly it will trigger civil unrest, according to a survey by King’s College London (KCL).’ Link: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/may/19/third-university-students-think-ai-job-losses-cause-social-unrest-poll

‘Mr Justice Kimblin has criticised the growing number of litigants-in-person using artificial intelligence derived legal arguments as contributing to an unsustainable growth in public law cases in his judgment in a case brought against Staffordshire County Council.’ Link: https://www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk/child-protection/392-children-protection-news/100560-high-court-judge-raises-concerns-over-litigants-in-person-ai-generated-arguments-and-substantial-and-increasing-workload-of-public-law-cases

Link: https://jcpc.uk/uploads/speech_lord_briggs_20052026_de46afe657.pdf

‘It’s been just three and a half years since the first generative AI products came to market.’ Link: https://www.legalfutures.co.uk/blog/how-ai-presents-real-opportunities-for-barristers

‘Might it be that some of these instances of errors and sloppiness in such legal filings are due to human lawyers being lax, either by design or by accident, and they end up crafting unsubstantiated quotes and citations by their own human hand, hoping they won’t get caught, and if they do get caught, they…

‘AI is seeping into the fabric of our information environment as generative AI tools are increasingly used to search for and discover information. Despite their promise for improving efficiency, AI systems regularly produce errors (also known as ‘hallucinations’), which demonstrate that uncertainty is a feature rather than a bug of such systems. Despite this problem,…

‘The author of a nonfiction book about the effects of artificial intelligence on truth acknowledged on Monday that he had included numerous made-up or misattributed quotes concocted by A.I.’ Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/business/media/future-of-truth-ai-quotes.html

‘Speakers include: Mark Henderson, Barrister at Doughty Street ChambersMatthew Lee, Barrister at Doughty Street ChambersGraham Denholm, Barrister at Doughty Street ChambersJulie Ahadi, Director of Operations and Strategic Planning at Doughty Street Chambers.’ Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGiBRdzZTGo

‘In this paper, we study how well humans can detect text generated by commercial LLMs (GPT-4o, Claude, o1). We hire annotators to read 300 non-fiction English articles, label them as either human-written or AI-generated, and provide paragraph-length explanations for their decisions. Our experiments show that annotators who frequently use LLMs for writing tasks excel at…

‘The distribution of those 64 reported UK cases is uneven, but they are now spread across a wide range of courts, tribunals and specialist decision-making bodies.’ Link: https://naturalartificiallaw.substack.com/p/64-uk-cases-of-ai-hallucinatedfalse

‘If you’re using AI for professional work purposes and are wondering if you’re being judged for it, it might depend on who you are.’ Link: https://fortune.com/2026/05/10/identical-resume-ai-men-women-response-trust-ability/

‘The AI hype cycle would have you believe the technology is inevitable. But AI backlash is growing, as people worry it will steal their jobs, jack up electricity rates and further enrich the wealthy, all while hurting the environment.’ Link: https://www.axios.com/2026/05/17/ai-backlash-polling-sentiment

‘As stewards of vast quantities of data, the sector could play a critical role in fuelling the digital economy.’ Link: https://www.ft.com/content/fea28150-fef4-460d-a83a-3e77fa4a2a56

‘The German Energy Efficiency Act is under review. The government should change the rules for data centers. As they stand, a data center can be labeled “green” even if it runs entirely on fossil gas.’ Link: https://algorithmwatch.org/en/the-murky-mechanics-of-data-centers-green-electricity/

‘Multimodal artificial intelligence devices capture personal data incidentally which raises significant legal and ethical questions in the workplace.’ Link: https://www.thetimes.com/uk/law/article/employers-need-ai-governance-framework-for-wearable-tech-8dh8dk8xh

https://www.barstandardsboard.org.uk/static/5e1baa5c-614c-4105-afae9a9ccdf8d97b/c0d1ed62-fcad-4a68-8ab810de5fa9b116/Artificial-Intelligence-Guidance-May-2026.pdf

‘What a judge sees when counsel outsources their professional judgment to a machine.’ Link: https://nationalmagazine.ca/en-ca/articles/law/opinion/2026/do-not-delegate-the-thinking

‘Over the past academic year, I served as the Inaugural Faculty Fellow for Artificial Intelligence (AI) at my university, a mid-sized public institution in the South. In that time, I acted as an AI curriculum developer, community resource, media personality, and intermediary between faculty and administration. I orchestrated a free AI certificate program that boasts…

‘Despite AI tools becoming increasingly embedded in academic practice, little is known about how university students integrate them into their writing processes. We examine how students engage with AI across different writing tasks, and how this engagement is shaped by individual factors including AI literacy, writing confidence, trust, authorship concerns, and motivation. Study~1 surveys 107…

‘Danielle Crowley is getting tired of people telling her to use generative artificial intelligence (genAI). As a marine zoologist at Bangor University, UK, she says that she is pretty much the only PhD student in her cohort who does not use it. She has seen colleagues use genAI tools for coding and for getting the…

‘A move by global pop icon Taylor Swift to trademark her voice marks the latest step in celebrity fears over AI manipulation, according to an intellectual property expert.’ Link: https://www.pinsentmasons.com/out-law/news/stars-move-swiftly-protect-image-taylor-lodges-ai-trademarks

‘It’s the stuff of science fiction cinema, or particularly breathless AI company blogposts: new research finds recent AI systems can independently copy themselves on to other computers.’ Link: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/may/07/no-one-has-done-this-in-the-wild-study-observes-ai-replicate-itself

‘The rise of large language models (LLMs) has triggered a series of unintended consequences for the global research community, most notably an avalanche of AI-enabled, low-quality academic papers.’ Link: https://wonkhe.com/blogs/detection-tools-wont-save-the-scholarly-record-from-the-ai-paper-avalanche/

‘[T]he Appellant does not seem to have appreciated that AI provided him with artificial case law. The majority of the cases relied upon by the Appellant either do not exist, do not support the propositions in the way stated in his emails, or they have been superseded by more recent case-law.’ Link: https://www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKFTT/TC/2026/673.html

‘Responding to the growth and use of AI by local solicitors, the Law Society of Northern Ireland has launched new guidance on the Responsible use of Artificial Intelligence.’ Link: https://lawsoc-ni.org/news/new-ai-guidance-provides-support-for-solicitors-in-northern-ireland

Link: https://www.judiciary.uk/speech-by-the-master-of-the-rolls-artificial-intelligence-and-the-judiciary/

Link: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2026/425/made

‘The University of Surrey will have embedded AI use into all of its degree programmes by September. Annika Bautz explains why doing so in a discipline-specific way was so crucial.’ Link: https://wonkhe.com/blogs/ai-literacy-is-not-enough-universities-must-teach-through-disciplinary-standards/

‘As proponents of AI claim it will soon replace software engineers, what does this mean for qualitative researchers and research software development? Reflecting on an eight-month experiment building a qualitative research app through “vibe coding”, Dipanjan Saha, Gemma Lough, and Tatsuya Akutsu argue that while AI offers researchers a viable way to build custom software, it does not eliminate…

‘As artificial intelligence (AI) technology becomes more sophisticated and more deeply integrated into the daily lives of individuals, its potential to exacerbate existing social inequalities is a growing concern. A national survey of U.S. adults (N = 10,087) was used to examine disparities in AI awareness between those of high and low socioeconomic status (SES) groups and…

‘Nearly half (47%) of UK job seekers have had an AI interview, research from the hiring platform Greenhouse has found.’ Link: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/may/01/uk-job-hunters-frustration-ai-interviews

‘As artificial intelligence expands into the legal information profession, law librarians are confronted with the tension between the adoption of emerging technologies with an outsized environmental impact and sustainability. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a blueprint to achieve a better future for all and seek a balance between economic growth, social inclusion, and the…

‘An enduring access-to-justice crisis leaves most low- and middle-income people without meaningful assistance for civil legal problems. In response, several U.S. jurisdictions have experimented with licensing legal paraprofessionals—such as Limited License Legal Technicians (LLLTs)—to provide a circumscribed set of services directly to the public. Using Washington State’s pioneering LLLT program and its successors as a…