Restrictions on the Use of Land: A Practitioner’s Handbook by William Webster and Robert Weatherley (Wildy, Simmonds & Hill) is not an entirely new title, being now in its second edition, but it is new to this Library. It has been updated to include discussion of recent cases relating to easements, town and village greens, public rights of way, restrictive covenants, and assets of community value.

Purchased under the Patron Driven Acquisition Scheme, The Cambridge Handbook of Private Law and Artificial Intelligence (Cambridge University Press) is the first dedicated treatment of the interface between AI and private law, and the challenges that AI poses for private law. The handbook brings together a global team of private law experts and computer scientists to address those challenges, and to examine the interface between private law and AI, including issues such as whether existing private law can address the challenges of AI and whether (and if so how) how private law needs to be reformed to reduce the risks of AI while retaining its benefits.

Amal Clooney and David (Lord) Neuberger’s Freedom of Speech in International Law (Oxford University Press) charts the minimum protections for speech enshrined in international human rights law. The authors clarify what the right to freedom of expression means under international law, identify conflicts between law and state practice, and provide key recommendations as to how international standards should be interpreted, updated and enforced.

Achieving Racial Justice at Inquests: A Practitioner’s Guide is a joint guide developed by human rights charities JUSTICE and INQUEST together with legal experts, academics, and bereaved families. The guide aims to provide lawyers representing families bereaved by deaths in police custody, prisons, immigration detention, and mental health settings with the legal expertise to raise the potential role of race and racism at inquests. It also provides foundational knowledge and strategy to coroners to ensure they satisfy their duty in fully investigating the circumstances in state custody deaths.

We would like to extend our thanks to the following who have presented new titles or editions to the Library in recent months: The Francis Bacon Society for The Bacon/Shakespeare Question by N.B. Cockburn, 2nd edition; Marie Veeder for On Arbitration by V.V. Veeder; Master Norman Doe for The Legal History of the Church of England from the Reformation to the Present; Amal Clooney and Lord Neuberger for Freedom of Speech in International Law (see above); and Master Andrew Goodman for Advanced Mediation Advocacy and for Effective Mediation Advocacy, 4th edition.