Sir Henry Brooke Student Essay Prize Highly Commended: The greatest regulatory challenges for the Internet of 2030

This entry to our annual Sir Henry Brooke Student Essay Prize by Benjamin Evans from the University of East Anglia was highly commended by the judges. A second highly commended entry will be published next week.

Sir Henry Brooke Student Essay Prize Winner: The greatest regulatory challenges for the Internet of 2030

This year's winner of our annual Sir Henry Brooke Student Essay Prize is Isabel Lightbody from the University of Law and Dentons.

Applied Game Theory – the future of IT procurement?

A team from DLA Piper were recently involved in a procurement process where the client decided to use game theory to help them choose a supplier for a large IT project. Here they recount how it worked and offer some tips for anyone else involved in a similar process..

Cyber is a business risk like any other

In our latest cybersecurity post, Peter Yapp explains why Cyber Security Risk should be considered a business risk like any other – not “an IT problem’.

The real-world effects of ‘fake news’ – and how to quantify them

The spread of anti-vaccination misinformation on social media, (and its implications for public health and the global fight against COVID-19) is a textbook example of how misinformation can have serious real world effects particularly while we tackle the virus. In advance of a webinar for SCL in September looking at causation in civil cases, a team of economists and data experts from FTI Consulting explain how social media data, artificial intelligence and traditional statistical analysis can be deployed – together – to examine important questions of causation arising from 'fake news'.

The Future of Courts by Professor Richard Susskind

The Benefits of Visual Management in Projects

Volker Matz and Rijk Detiger extol the benefits of using physical visual management in complex IT projects and illustrate their thinking with real project examples for design thinking, process optimisation and programme & project management

ExplAIning Artificial Intelligence

Terence Bergin QC and Quentin Tannock look at the importance of explaining AI, outlining recent guidance from Project ExplAIn and discussing explanation related challenges for organisations that deploy AI to process personal data.

Of Liability For Contactless Card Payments And The End of Unilateral Change Clauses: Part 2

In the second of a two part article, Simon Deane-Johns looks at some surprising consequences (if followed) of the Advocate General’s opinion on contactless payments in Denizbank. In Part 1, he set out the facts and why the outcome could be so important. In this second part he looks at the question of whether contactless payments are anonymous and the outlook for unilateral change clauses.

Google v Oracle: the Copyright Case of the Decade

The Google v Oracle software copyright case in the US Supreme Court has been billed as the copyright case of the decade. Chris Kemp, Associate at Kemp IT Law, looks at the issues at stake.