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Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Sonu Choudhary and Christi George ‘India’s Dormant Attitude Towards AI Regulations. ADevelopmental Approach’ (2025) 6 Amicus Curiae (Series 2) 522 India’s Dormant Attitude towards AI Regulations: ADevelopmental Approach | Amicus Curiae Accessed 16 July 2025
Martin De Saulles ‘Prepare for the AI Driven Revolution in How We Work With Information’ (2025) 25 LIM 79
Pete Fussey and Daragh Murray, Facial Recognition Surveillance: Policing and Human Rights in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (Oxford University Press 2025)
Alex Heshmaty ‘The State of Copyright and AI in 2025’ (2025) August I.N.L The state of copyright and AI in 2025 - Internet for Lawyers Newsletter Accessed 11 August 2025
Thomas Lancaster ‘AI and Higher Education– Navigating the Policy Maze’ (2025) July Counsel The Journal of the Bar of England and Wales 44
Brendan McGurk KC and Joe Tomlinson, Artificial Intelligence and Public Law (Hart Publishing 2025)
Andrew Martineau and Loren Turner ‘Legal Scholarship Through the Eyes of Generative AI, Darkly’ (2025) 117 Law Libr. J.232
Nadia Naim ‘New Frontiers and the Impact of Artificial Intelligence and the Digital Revolution on the Future of Intellectual Property Laws’ (2025) 16(1) EJLT New Frontiers and The Impact of Artificial Intelligence and the Digital Revolution on the Future of Intellectual Property Laws | European Journal of Law and Technology Accessed 16 July 2025
Leland Sampson ‘Generative AI and Legal Research: AMismatch?’ (2025) 29(5) AALL Spectrum 19
Priti Saraswat ‘Coded Bias in AI: Identifying and Addressing Challenges in Legal Knowledge Management’ (2025) 29(6) AALL Spectrum 15
Leigh Zeiser ‘Out-of-the-Box: the Rise of Custom Configuration in the Age of Generative AI’ (2025) 29(5) AALL Spectrum 16
Mimi Zou (and others) (eds), The Cambridge Handbook of Generative AI and the Law (Cambridge University Press 2025)
Brexit
Gemma Davies and Helena Carrapico (eds), UK-EU Police and Judicial Cooperation Post-Brexit: Implementing the Trade and Cooperation Agreement (Hart Publishing 2025)
Comparative Law
Ashlee Beazley, Michele Panzavolta and Andrew Sanders (eds), Poor Defence Lawyering in Criminal Proceedings: AComparative View (Routledge 2025)
Alan Bogg and Paul S.Davies (eds), Private Law and the Employment Contract (Hart Publishing 2025)
Jean-Michel Glachant, Paul L.Joskow and Michael G.Pollitt (eds), Handbook on Electricity Regulation (Edward Elgar 2025)
Helen Meenan and Christa Tobler (eds), Realising Protection from Age Discrimination: International, Regional, and National Perspectives (Edward Elgar 2025)
Tshepo Mosaka, Proof, Evidence and Hate Crime: AStudy in Criminal Jurisprudence (Routledge 2025)
Copyright
Eric Chapman ‘Copyright’s Labyrinth: Navigating Copyright Liability in Law Librarianship’ (2024) 43 Leg. Ref. Serv. Q.177
Ciara Cullen, Joshy Thomas and Emma Dunnill ‘Copyright, AI & Onions’ (2025) 175 (8114) NLJ 11
Jennifer Jenkins, Music Copyright, Creativity, and Culture (Oxford University Press 2025)
Poorna Mysoor, Copyright as Personal Property (Oxford University Press 2025)
Inger Ørstavik ‘Development of Large Language Models: Copyright Law Perspectives for Research Institutions and Research Libraries’ (2024) 52 IJLI 200
Jane Secker, Chris Morrison & Amanda Wakaruk ‘Understanding and Tackling Copyright Anxiety’ (2025) Autumn Information Professional 42
European Union
Katharina Boele-Woelki and Maarit Jänterä-Jareborg (eds), What Family Law for Europe? (Larcier Intersentia Publishers 2025)
Antonio Leandro, Jurisdiction in EU Cross-Border Insolvency Law (Edward Elgar 2025)
Nora Ni Loideain, EU Data Privacy Law and Serious Crime: Data Retention and Policymaking (Oxford University Press 2025)
Valsamis Mitsilegas, Elspeth Guild and Vavoula Niovi (eds), Lawless Borders: The Rule of Law Deficit in Immigration Control (Bristol University Press 2025)
Josephine Norriks, EU Global Value Chain Regulation: APractical Guide (Hart Publishing 2025)
Nadia Pocher, Crypto-Asset Ecosystems and the EU Anti-Money Laundering Framework: Law and Technology Perspectives (Springer International 2025)
Alexander H. Türk, Judicial Review in the European Union (Edward Elgar 2025)
Information Policy
Josef Drexl (and others) (eds), Comparative Data Law: The Munich Global Data Law Conference (Springer International 2025)
Charlotte Ducuing, Data Commodification and the Law: Navigating Data Markets and Data Protection (Larcier Intersentia Publishers 2025)
Katherine Nolan ‘Data Protection’s Function in Society: a Search for the Limits of a Non-Absolute Right’ (2025) 16(1) EJLT Data protection’s function in society: a search for the limits of a non-absolute right | European Journal of Law and Technology Accessed 16 July 2025
Charlotte Smith ‘Open Justice and Access to Court Records in the Archives’ (2025) 25 LIM 26
Information Technology
BIALL Supplier Liaison Group ‘Navigating the Lexis+UK Migration: Insights and Lessons Learned’ (2025) 25 LIM 116
Lauren Mattiuzzo ‘Bringing History to Life: Nominative Reports in HeinOnline’ (2025) 25 LIM 40
Siddharth Peter de Souza and Julia Wellhausen (eds), Digitalising Courts in Asia: Exploring the Mechanics of Judicial Transformations (Edinburgh University Press 2025)
International Law
Aderomola Adeola ‘Internally Displaced Persons’ GlobaLex May/June 2025 Internally Displaced Persons - Globalex Accessed 23 June 2025
Heather Jean Alexander, The Nationality and Statelessness of Nomadic Peoples Under International Law (Oxford University Press USA 2025)
Jutharat Attawet (and others), The Ethical and Legal Implications of Commercial Surrogacy for Healthcare: AGlobal Perspective (Routledge 2025)
Vincent Chetail (ed), Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Migration and Asylum Law (Edward Elgar 2025)
Antonella Corradi ‘International Law and Consumer Protection’ GlobaLex May/June 2025 International Law and Consumer Protection - Globalex Accessed 23 June 2025
Luigi Corrias, Law and Inhumanity: Dehumanization, Silent Claims and Atrocity Crimes (Cambridge University Press 2025)
Katrina Crossley ‘Two Decades and Counting’ (2025) 175 (8118) NLJ 19
Karen Engle, Toward an Abolitionist Human Rights Court: Rethinking Responses to Gendered and Racialized Violence (Cambridge University Press 2025)
Franco Ferrari and Friedrich Rosenfeld (eds) Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of International Commercial Arbitration (Edward Elgar 2025)
Anton Moiseienko, Doing Business with Criminals: Between Exclusion and Surveillance (Cambridge University Press 2025)
Časlav Pejović, International Maritime Law and Practice: Comparative Law in Context (Informa Law from Routledge 2025)
Jonathan Pratter ‘À la Recherche des Travaux Prépraratoires: An Approach to Researching the Drafting History of International Agreements’ GlobaLex May/June 2025 À la Recherche des Travaux Préparatoires: An Approach to Researching the Drafting History of International Agreements - Globalex Accessed 23 June 2025
Niccolo Ridi and Thomas Schultz ‘Distantly Reading the Recueil des Cours: authority and authorities in the history of the Hague Academy of International Law’ (2025) 36 EJIL 247
Joan E.Schaffner (ed), Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Animal Law (Edward Elgar 2025)
Chris Stephen ‘International Criminal Court in Crisis’ (2025) June Counsel The Journal of the Bar of England and Wales 32
Judiciary
Alejandro Saiz Arnaiz and Joan Solanes Mullor (eds), The European Judiciary: ACommunity of Law and a Community of Judges (Hart Publishing 2025)
Law Librarians
Mike Breslin ‘Cornell H.Winston– President of AALL’ (2025) 25 LIM 3
Mike Breslin and Jas Breslin ‘Louis Coiffait-Gunn’ (2025) 25 LIM 73
Sally McClaren and Lily Rowe ‘“You’re Right to be Skeptical!”: the Role of Legal Information Professionals in Assessing Generative AI Outputs’ (2025) 25 LIM 19
Paul McLaughlin ‘AI and Law Librarians: Introducing the Idea of Creating a Legal Information Research Team to Prepare Students for the Practice of Law’ (2025) 44 Leg. Ref. Serv. Q. 2
Law Libraries
Anastasia Stepanovic ‘Books and Shelves: ALibrary Transformed– The Revitalisation of a Law Library’ (2025) 33 ALL 52
Ugyen Thinley ‘The Journey of Establishing the Law Library for Bhutan’s First Law School’ (2024) 52 IJLI 222
Law Library Administration
Qudri Abu Bakar ‘Implementation of a Library Management System in a Malaysian Law Firm Library’ (2024) 52 IJLI 212
Mike Breslin and Jas Breslin ‘Bookends– The Decline of Print in Commercial Law Libraries’ (2025) 25 LIM 111
Raquel Gabriel and Jessica Wittman ‘At the Crossroads: Law Libraries and the Future of Legal Information Leading the Way in Advancing DEI’ (2025) 29(6) AALL Spectrum 12
Jackie Hanes ‘Telling Tales: Using Data to Understand Trends in Law Database Usage’ (2025) 25 LIM 12
Claire Mazer ‘BIALL/SLS Academic Law Library Survey 2022/23’ (2025) 25 LIM 8
Teresa Miguel-Stearns and Cas Laskowski ‘Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Law Libraries’ (2025) 29(5) AALL Spectrum 12
Catherine Parkin ‘Alleviating Library Anxiety in Law Undergraduates’ (2025) 25 LIM 105
Caroline Osborne ‘Freedom of Expression, Collection Management, and Ethical Decision Making: Censorship of the Good, the Bad, the Ugly, and our Obligations to Preserve a Culture’s Story’ (2025) 117 Law Libr. J.191
Law Library Associations
Mike Breslin and Jas Breslin ‘Preview: 2025 BIALL Conference’ (2025) 25 LIM 32
Legal Citations
Sally McClaren and Lily Rowe ‘Hallucinated Case Citations’ (2025) June Counsel: The Journal of the Bar of England and Wales 20
Legal Education
Foluke Adebisi ‘Seeking the University That is Ours: Understanding, Unpacking and Unsettling Black Students’ Radicalised (Un)belonging in UK Law Schools’ (2025) 59 Law Teacher 200
Cameron Giles and Yue Ang ‘What Qualifies as a Law Degree?: Surveying Elective Module Provision in Undergraduate Legal Education Across England, Wales and Northern Ireland in 2023-2024’ (2025) 59 Law Teacher 2
Tammy Johnson and Caroline Strevens ‘Mistakes as Milestones: Rethinking Legal Education For Enhanced Learning’ (2025) 59 Law Teacher 22
Donald Nicolson ‘Legal Education and Legal Theory: the Determined Province of Jurisprudence Textbooks’ (2025) 59 Law Teacher 84
Legal Profession
Fahimeh Abedi, Tim Miller and Atif Ahmad ‘Legal, Ethical and Technological Challenges of New Emerging Technologies for Lawyers: a Mixed Methods Approach’ (2025) 25 LIM 48
Marco Imperiale, Practicing Legal Design (Globe Law and Business 2025)
Simon McCrum, The Perfect Lawyer (Hawksmoor Publishing 2025)
Unmind ‘The State of Wellbeing in Law– Summary of Unmind 2024 Mental Health and Performance Survey’ (2025) 25 LIM 99
Legal Research
Ryan Marcotte ‘AI Assisted Research: AIALR’ (2025) 25 LIM 84
Legal Systems
Rebecca Bergstrøm ‘Legal Research in Norway’ GlobaLex May/June 2025 Legal Research in Norway - Globalex Accessed 23 June 2025
Michael Broyde and Yehonatan Elazar-De Mota, Jewish Law and International Law: Sovereignty and Exogenous Authority in a Transnational World (Oxford University Press USA 2025)
Jamie Buchan, Sarah Anderson and Katrina Morrison, Criminal Justice in Scotland (Routledge 2025)
Ngoc Bui ‘Global Studies in Asian Laws’ (2024) 52 IJLI 228
Lei Chen, Property Law in China: Transition and Trend (Cambridge University Press 2025)
Anamaria Corbescu ‘Legal Research in Romania’ GlobaLex May/June 2025 Legal Research in Romania - Globalex Accessed 23 June 2025
Laura Culbertson and Susan Longfield Karr (eds), Framing Devices and Global Legal Traditions: From the Ancient World to the Modern Nation State (Routledge 2025)
Max Gower ‘Closing the Front Door: Why Companies House Reform is Long Overdue– and How to Make Sure it Sticks’ (2025) 25 LIM 120
Ed Johnston and Claire-Michelle Smyth (eds), Justice Denied: Exploring Inequities in the Legal System (Routledge 2025)
RonNell Andersen Jones, Sonja R.West (eds), The Future of Press Freedom: Democracy, Law, and the News in Changing Times (Cambridge University Press 2025)
Jan G.Laitos (ed), Rethinking the Law of Private Property (Edward Elgar 2025)
Sara Malkani, Progressive Laws in Patriarchal Societies: Lessons from Pakistan (Hart Publishing 2025)
Eleftheria Papagianni and Daphne Penna (ed), A Companion to Byzantine Law: From the Foundation of Constantinople (330) until the End of the Macedonian Dynasty (1056) (Brill Academic Publishers 2025)
Raquel Pedrosa Alves ‘Legal System and Research in Portugal’ GlobaLex May/June 2025 Legal System and Research in Portugal - Globalex Accessed 23 June 2025
Hannah Saunders, Appearance, Disability and the Law (Cambridge University Press 2025)
Iztok Štefanec ‘Legal System and Legal Research in the Republic of Slovenia’ GlobaLex May/June 2025 Legal System and Legal Research in the Republic of Slovenia - Globalex Accessed 23 June 2025
Sofia Sternberg ‘Swedish Law and Legal Materials’ GlobaLex May/June 2025 Swedish Law and Legal Materials - Globalex Accessed 23 June 2025
Eliza Varney, Disability, Human Rights and Contract Law (Cambridge University Press 2025)
Legislation
Kier Spilsbury and Kerry O’Mara ‘LegisLion Sleeps Tonight: Automating Legislative Currency While You Wait’ (2025) 33 ALL 48
Publishing
Mike Breslin and Jas Breslin ‘Raiders of the Lost Archive - 1975’ (2025) 25 LIM 63
Mike Breslin and Jas Breslin ‘Raiders of the Lost Archive - 1985’ (2025) 25 LIM 125