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Current Legal Problems 2026
The newest addition to an annual lecture series addressing the most pressing issues in law.
Current Legal Problems (CLP) is the influential annual lecture series and publication from University College London’s Faculty of Laws, established nearly eighty years ago. Its unique coupling of public event and published work attracts diverse legal scholarship of the highest quality. In 2026, as CLP celebrates University College London’s bicentenary and initiates a new relationship with UCL Press, a commitment to breadth and depth continues. Articles in this yearbook range across administrative law, competition, copyright, equity, environmental law, family law, and insolvency. They engage with theoretical challenges around issues including hope and justice, inheritance and gender, and further address contemporary geopolitical and technological developments as well as historical perspectives on enduring issues. This year, as every year, CLP will be a major point of reference for legal scholars.
460 pages | 6.14 x 9.21 | © 2026
Law and Legal Studies: General Legal Studies, International Law, Legal Thought
Table of Contents
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 Regulatory norms in competition law assessment
Niamh Dunne
7 Legally speaking: Understanding gender and sex in the shadow of law
Sharon Cowan
8 Is environmental law hopeful?
Elen Stokes
9 EU values, liberal dialogue and the changing role of the Court of Justice of the EU
Oliver Gerstenberg
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