Book cover for Current Legal Problems 2026

Publication date: 1 November 2026

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Current Legal Problems 2026

Franziska Arnold-Dwyer (Editor), Mark Dsouza (Editor), Jeevan Hariharan (Editor), Maria Lee (Editor)

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