The SCL AI Group has just announced their Article Competition for 2024. It is open to trainees and other junior lawyers (which includes students – hurray!). Find full details at the competition website but here are the highlights:

You need to submit your article on a topic concerning the intersection of artificial intelligence and law for a chance to be published in the SCL’s Computers & Law magazine and on the SCL’s website. Entrants can write on one of the following three topics:

• The most transformative changes in legal practice that will arise from the use of AI in the next 10 years;
• The ability of AI to increase access to justice; and
• The liability of autonomous systems

The prize

• £500 of training credits to spend with SCL (No cash equivalent available if credits are not spent on training)
• Publication in the SCL’s Computers & Law magazine and on the SCL’s website

Who can enter

• Trainee solicitors;
• Solicitor apprentices;
• Pupil barristers;
• Students currently undertaking, or who have completed in the last 12 months, a law degree (undergraduate or post-graduate), GDL, LPC or SQE (or any equivalent legal course/training).

The judges

The judging panel will consist of members of the SCL’s AI Group Committee, in addition to David Chaplin, Editor of Computers & Law.

The winning submission(s) will be selected from a shortlist by SCL President, Professor Richard Susskind OBE KC (Hon).

Deadline for submission

Submissions must be entered by 5:00pm (UK time) on Friday, 6 December 2024 and the result of the competition will be announced in early 2025.