Annual Essay Competition

"Should generative AI have a significant effect on questions of liability in criminal law and/or the law of tort?" (2024 Prompt)

The deadline to participate in the 2024 Annual Essay Competition has passed!

The OUULJ is no longer accepting submissions to our 2024 Annual Essay Competition.

This year's topic asked writers to contemplate the effect of generative AI on liability in criminal and/or tort law. Writers were encouraged to adopt as narrow or broad an approach as they preferred, and the Editorial Board was pleased by the range of submissions received, articulating a variety of original and thoughtful positions in this emerging and crucially important field. Thank you very much to all those who submitted! 

2025 Essay Competition Information and Guidelines: 

The essay prompt, guidelines, and appurtenant deadlines for the 2025 Annual Essay Competition will be announced on social media and here on our website in March 2025.  

Essays are expected to be between 2000-3000 words in length. Essays should be submitted as a Word Document, in Times New Roman 12 pt font with 1.5 line spacing. 

For more information, please refer to the 2024 Competition Guidelines. 

Awards: 

The winner of the 2025 Essay Competition will receive the OUULJ Essay Prize, generously sponsored by Francis Taylor Building. This entails publication of the winning essay on the OUULJ Blog (located on the Oxford Law Faculty website), a £200 GBP monetary prize, and the opportunity to be honoured at our Annual Publication Event, which will be held at the Gulbenkian Lecture Theatre in June 2025.