This Monthly Intake collects AI law scholarship posted to AI Law Blawg in May 2026, organized by category.
AI Governance
- Woodrow Hartzog et al., Against AI Half Measures (77 Florida Law Review (forthcoming 2026))
- Tamiko Eto & Heather Miller, Beyond Belmont: Convening a National Initiative to Update U.S. Research Ethics Principles for the Age of AI
- Ye Chen et al., The “Zhejiang Model” from China: A Novel Framework for AI Ethics Governance Through Leading-Enterprise-Driven Symbiosis
- Sandra Sanchez Salas, Digital Intimacy with AI Companions: When Vulnerability becomes a Business Risk – A Governance Framework for AI Companion Companies
- Luis Lozano Paredes, AI Governance in Motion: Aligning Form, Fit, and Context Amid Decentralization
- Cynthia Khoo, Of Data and Dissent: Labour and Human Rights at the Crossroads of the Automation Agenda
- Yiyang Mei & Matthew Sag, The Illusory Normativity of Rights-Based AI Regulation
- Daniel Lyons, The Litigation Solution: Why Courts, Not Code Mandates, Should Address AI Discrimination
- Jennifer S. Fan & Xuan-Thao Nguyen, Novel Corporate Governance Structures (Harvard Journal of Law & Technology, Volume 38, Number 4 Spring 2025)
Liability and Private Law
- Beatriz Botero Arcila, AI Liability Along the Value Chain (Published by Mozilla Foundation)
- Cristian Trout, When Does Regulation by Insurance Work? The Case of Frontier AI
- Bryant Walker Smith & Matthew Wansley, Regulating Robotaxis (99 Southern California Law Review 603 (2026))
- Nydia Remolina, Agentic Payments: When is a Payment (Un)Authorised?
- Jessica Tillipman, What Rights Do AI Companies Have in Government Contracts? (Nextgov/FCW (2026).)
Data Governance and Training
- Tomaž Lajovic, Foundation Models as Infringers: Should Large-Scale AI Training Trigger Collective Licensing Obligations under EU Law?
- Hannah Kuker, When Opt-Outs Fail Us: Charting a More Effective Course for Attribution & Monetization on AI Platforms
- Clark D. Asay, Artificial Creators (2 George Washington Journal of Law and Technology (forthcoming 2026))
- Jonathan Barnett, The Free Content Illusion (Journal of Intellectual Property Law (2026))
Competition and Markets
- Pinar Yildirim, On Artificial Intelligence and Network Effects
- Srikanth Thudumu, How to Measure ROI for AI
- Xiong Zhang et al., Balancing Data-Driven Competition and Privacy Protection: A Duopoly Analysis of AI-Powered Digital Assistants
- Adam Feher et al., Is AI Trained on Public Money? Evidence from US Data Centers
AI Safety and Security
- Xiaoming Zhai & Joseph Krajcik, Pseudo Artificial Intelligence Bias
- Zihan Chen, The Algorithmic Curtain: Geopolitical Polarisation and the Fragmentation of Global AI Governance
- Klaudia Klonowska & Taylor Kate Woodcock, Rhetoric and Regulation: The (Limits of) Human/AI Comparison in Legal Debates on Military AI (Forthcoming in Boutin B., Woodcock T. K. & Soltanzadeh S. (eds.), Decision at the Edge: Interdisciplinary Dilemmas in Military Artificial Intelligence, Asser Press (2025))
Legal Profession and Pedagogy
- Bonnie J. Shucha, Getting Started with GenAI in Legal Practice (97 Wis. Law. 29 (2024))
- Margaret Raymond, Our AI, Ourselves: Illuminating the Human Fears Animating Early Regulatory Responses to the Use of Generative AI in the Practice of Law (15 St. Mary’s Journal on Legal Malpractice & Ethics 221 (2025))