Publication date: 1 November 2026
Current Legal Problems 2026
Franziska Arnold-Dwyer (Editor), Mark Dsouza (Editor), Jeevan Hariharan (Editor), Maria Lee (Editor)
Series: Current Legal Problems
Current Legal Problems (CLP) is the UCL Faculty of Laws’ flagship public lecture series and publication, both established over sixty years ago. The CLP Yearbook is an annual volume collating recent CLP lectures, written up as scholarly articles by the speakers who are world-leading legal scholars in their fields. Covering all areas of legal scholarship with an emphasis on contemporary legal and scholarly developments and featuring a wide range of methodological approaches to law, the CLP Yearbook is a major point of reference for legal scholarship.
1 Mother-blame by design: Patriarchy, epistemic practices and parental alienation in family courts
Shazia Choudry
2 Bureaucracy and distrust: The civil service in the constitution
Ben Yong
3 The nature of equitable property revisited
Ben McFarlane
4 Membership of the EU in an era of geopolitical disorder
Michael Dougan
5 Justice-driven insolvency law
Bolanle Adebola
6 Is environmental law hopeful?
Elen Stokes
7 Regulatory norms in competition law assessment
Niamh Dunne
8 EU values, liberal dialogue and the changing role of the Court of Justice of the EU
Oliver Gerstenberg
9 Legally speaking: understanding gender and sex in the shadow of law
Sharon Cowan
10 Family memory and the official history machine: A feminist critique of the British public inquiry
Mairead Enright
11 Model law? Template legal culture and the global production of environmental law
Natasha Affolder
12 Artificial intelligence and the trouble for authorship: Towards a legal theory of effort
Johanna Gibson
13 Decentralised Autonomous Organisations (DAOs): Technology, finance and the law
Joseph Lee Nazzini
14 In memoriam: Prof. William Twining
Philip Schofield, David Sugarman and Jane Holder
Publication date: 01 November 2026
PDF ISBN: 9781806551408
EPUB ISBN: 9781806551415
Hardback ISBN: 9781806551385
Paperback ISBN: 9781806551392
Franziska Arnold-Dwyer (Editor) 
Franziska Arnold-Dwyer is an Associate Professor of Law at University College London (UCL), and was Global Law Professor in Insurance Law at KU Leuven for the 2025/26 academic year.
Mark Dsouza (Editor)
Mark Dsouza is Co-director of the Centre for Criminal Law in the UCL Faculty of Laws and a founding organiser of the bi-annual Assize Seminars in Cutting Edge Criminal Law.
Jeevan Hariharan (Editor)
Jeevan Hariharan is a Lecturer in Law at the UCL Faculty of Laws. He researches and teaches in the areas of private law, legal theory and media law, with a particular focus on tort law and privacy.
Maria Lee (Editor)
Maria Lee is Professor in the UCL Faculty of Laws. She was director or co-director of the UCL Centre for Law and the Environment for over a decade.
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Current Legal Problems 2026
Series: Current Legal Problems
Publication date: November 1, 2026
Open Access PDF ISBN: 9781806551408
Paperback ISBN: 9781806551392
Hardback ISBN: 9781806551385
Trim size (hardback): 23.4cm x 15.6cm
Trim size (paperback): 23.4cm x 15.6cm
Current Legal Problems (CLP) is the UCL Faculty of Laws’ flagship public lecture series and publication, both established over sixty years ago. The CLP Yearbook is an annual volume collating recent CLP lectures, written up as scholarly articles by the speakers who are world-leading legal scholars in their fields. Covering all areas of legal scholarship with an emphasis on contemporary legal and scholarly developments and featuring a wide range of methodological approaches to law, the CLP Yearbook is a major point of reference for legal scholarship.
