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Rhiannon Victoria Maher of The Open University explores how AI and surveillance tech interact with the 2023 Illegal Migration Act to create a hostile border. _Artificial Intelligence in Asylum Governance_ was the Best in Category winner for the 2024 vLex International Writing Competition category: Immigration.

Marco Berki of the University of Reading examines the rise of LLMs in legal practice, and the dramatic changes that the legal profession can expect from this rapidly evolving technology. _Legal Market Transformed_ was the Best in Category winner for the 2024 vLex International Writing Competition category: Large Language Models.

vLex is pleased to announce the winners of our International Law and Technology Writing Competition for 2024! Congratulations to Bessie O’Dell for winning the overall prize for her paper on _Copyright Law in the Age of Digital Creativity_, and to our Best in Category winners Marco Berki, Rhiannon Victoria Maher, and Isobel Macey-Dare.

Bessie O’Dell of the University of Oxford examines the legal issues surrounding the use of copyright music to train LLMs. Spotlight on Large Language Models was the overall winner of the 2024 vLex International Writing Competition.

Isobel Macey-Dare of City, University of London examines the increasing use of surveillance technology in the workplace and its potential to undermine industrial action. _All Eyes on the Strike_ was the Best in Category winner for the 2024 vLex International Writing Competition category: Industrial Action.

vLex is excited to announce the shortlist for our seventh annual International Law and Technology Writing Competition! We received a huge amount of brilliant submissions across the three categories for 2024 – Immigration, Large Language Models (LLMs), and Industrial Action – and the finalists for each topic are listed below. Congratulations to everyone who was shortlisted!