The new issue of the Journal of AI Law and Regulation (AIRe) is now available online. The edition opens with Mark D. Cole’s editorial on AI and the Media, which assesses AI summaries in search engines and discusses how their proliferation endangers the future of democracies.
The articles in this issue analyse in depth:
- Ensuring Consistency in AI Supervision: Cooperation Mechanisms Under the AI Act by Brend Plantinga
- Trajectory-Based Liability: Regulating High-Capability Agentic AI in the 2026 Capability Frontier by Marcel Osmond
- Legality, Legitimacy and Necessity: Three Reasons to Keep Emotional Surveillance Out of Law Enforcement by Georgios Bouchagiar
- Agentic AI and International Arbitration: A Three-Tier Taxonomy and Model Agentic AI Protocol by Adrian Mak and Wilson Lui
- Interpreting EU AI Regulation Through the Lens of the UN Sustainable Development Goals by Rebecca Owens and Stergios Aidinlis
- Seeds of Change: AI and Data Governance for Digitalised EU Agriculture by Luca Leone
A highlight in this edition is the upgraded reports section, presenting insights by local AI legal experts from AIRe’s new network of country/regional correspondents. Full-length reports explore the most important national legal developments around the world while the new feature, Global Snapshots, provides shorter updates on other noteworthy AI news:
- Australia: National AI Plan and AI Governance Architecture
- Colombia: Governing AI from the Ground Up
- EU: EDPS Assesses AI Use on the EU Visa Application Platform
- Japan: The AI Basic Plan
- South Korea: Regulatory Hybridity in the AI Framework Act
- Ukraine: Draft AI Strategy for the Period Until 2030
- UK: Financial Services AI Regulation in 2026
- Global Snapshots: Azerbaijan, Brazil, Canada, France, Poland, South Africa, Tunisia, Vietnam
The case note in AIRe 2/2026 is on the Ben Cohen v Municipality of Ramat Gan judgment of the Supreme Court of Israel – the first Israeli decision to impose a human-in-the-loop requirement on automated administrative decision-making.
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