Hannah-Louise Shergold, Author at Society for Computers & Law

AI and Board Directors: What Keeps Them up at Night – And How Lawyers Can Help

AI Issue 2025, Analysis • October 10, 2025

Shanthini Satyendra separates the wood from the trees on what matters to leaders in companies seeking to adopt AI. Drawing out how pivotal a role lawyers can have in this respect. Including in this article insights she has curated from leaders in AI including General Counsel and C-suite members who, together with Shanthini, are part…

I Think, Therefore I Am Regulated? Musings on the Current Approaches to AI Regulation.

AI Issue 2025, Analysis • October 9, 2025

Mark O’Conor and Gareth Stokes take a wider view of AI regulation and where the balance lies, sharing points that many businesses grapple with today. In Dubai recently, we were struck by the pace of AI adoption and the easy acceptance that AI is already 100% normal within people’s lives. In the UAE tens of…

Foreword to the Computers & Law AI special issue by Professor Richard Susskind

AI Issue 2025, Analysis • October 9, 2025

The Society for Computers and Law has taken AI seriously since the 1980s. Our initial focus was on expert systems and how they might be used by lawyers. As time rolled on and more sophisticated technologies appeared, our attention shifted to the legal repercussions of these increasingly capable systems. Today, we devote our time both…

Advocate General issues opinion on country of origin principle

Cases, News • September 30, 2025

Advocate General Szpunar has issued an opinion in Joined Cases C-188/24 | WebGroup Czech Republic and NKL Associates and C-190/24 | Coyote System on two related legal cases involving French laws that restrict certain online services. Advocate General (AG) Szpunar says that France’s obligations on online porn publishers to prevent minors’ access and its prohibition…

EDPB adopts guidelines on interaction between the DSA and the GDPR

News • September 30, 2025

During its September plenary meeting, the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) adopted guidelines on the relationship between the Digital Services Act (DSA) and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). This the first EDPB guidance on the relationship between these two pieces of legislation. The DSA aims to complement the rules of the GDPR to ensure…

Publishing names on internet of athletes infringing anti-doping rules is contrary to EU law

Cases, News • September 29, 2025

In a case before the Court of Justice of the European Union, Advocate General Spielmann has issued an opinion on how EU member states handle the public disclosure of anti-doping violations. In Case C‑474/24, four athletes challenged Austrian legislation mandating the online publication of personal data following anti-doping sanctions. This data included names, sports discipline,…

This Week’s Techlaw News Round-Up

News • September 26, 2025

UK law CMA issues rules for the digital markets competition regime levy Section 110 of the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024 gives the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) powers to charge a levy to firms designated with strategic market status (SMS) to recoup costs which the CMA incurs in exercising its digital markets…

Law Commission announces fourteenth programme of reform

News • September 22, 2025

Following consultation, the Law Commission of England and Wales has announced its fourteenth programme of reform. It has agreed to work on ten new projects, three of which will be of particular interest to our readers. Deeds The Commission says that the current law of deeds is outdated, in part due to technological developments. For…