Monthly Archives: December 2024

The Extension of Vicarious Liability in Determining Group Companies’ Liability

It is an unresolved but important issue whether one legal entity can be vicariously liable for another legal entity’s tort in a corporate group. The debate over a parent company’s liability for its subsidiary’s torts has emerged, particularly in the context of environmental harms or mass torts resulting in personal injuries. Often, liability claims surpass the subsidiary’s value, leading to its insolvency, and tort creditors attempt to claim against alternative defendants, especially the parent company. 

Unjust Enrichment Law and AI

When companies collect our data to train their AI systems, or benefit from our data in other ways, are we entitled to any of those benefits? In a chapter published in The Cambridge Handbook of Private Law and Artificial Intelligence edited by Ernest Lim and Phillip Morgan, I consider the situations in which individual data subjects should be allowed to seek gain-based remedies against those companies.

Large Language Models in Legal Education

LLMs are swallowing the legal world. No, not the Master of Laws degree – I’m talking about large language models. These LLMs are here, they’re increasingly powerful, and they’re already being used by law students and legal professionals alike (with occasionally disastrous results). Even judges are getting on board. So, what does this all mean for legal education?