AI, financial services and protecting the consumer

Luke Scanlon and Priya Jhakra outline some of the issues that financial services providers should factor in when using AI to make decisions about consumers.

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 Karolina Zielinska was highly commended by the judges. This is the final winning entry we will publish.

"SafetyTech": what it is, and key legal issues

Neil Brown looks at the legal issues arising from the emergence of the latest iteration of [insertsomethinghere]tech – SafetyTech.

Managing failing IT and outsourcing projects

In a companion piece to their recent article on the reasons for IT project failure, Lee Gluyas and William Hooper review the steps that can be taken to protect a party's position where a project is failing but recovery is being attempted.

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