Notes on law, regulation and AI
Short, practitioner pieces on the questions I keep returning to: how AI governance works in practice, how regulated digital markets are changing, and where legal operations can genuinely improve.
- July 2026 Legal AI Who keeps the agent? Custody clauses for an AI pilot An old custody rule, read as charter language: a named keeper, care you can prove, and a recourse trail for whatever startled the agent.
- July 2026 Data protection KVKK standard contracts: what the first full year's 2,497 notifications say The five-business-day filing was never the hard part. The Authority now holds a register of transfers, and it has started reading it.
- July 2026 Legal AI Composing your own agentic workflow: what the canvas gives a legal team A bought product ships someone else's workflow. Composing your own puts the stages, the mandate and the records in the legal team's hands.
- July 2026 Marketplace operations Marketplace compliance ops: one notice queue, set to the tightest clock Turkey gives you forty-eight hours and the DSA sets the shape of the decision. Which queues you own, and who is on the rota.
- July 2026 AI governance Prompt injection in legal workflows: a filter is not a control A filter is a mitigation. The control is the capability set an agent holds while it reads a document nobody in your organisation wrote.
- July 2026 Legal operations Evaluating a live AI workflow: the release gate A pilot is measured once. A live workflow is re-measured on every model, prompt, retrieval or connector change.
- July 2026 Legal operations Workflow automation lock-in: what you can export, what you rebuild The Data Act gives you your data back, not your workflow. What the due diligence checklist should now ask for.
- July 2026 AI regulation The EU AI Act on 2 August 2026: what actually applies Regulation (EU) 2026/1744, the Digital Omnibus on AI, entered into force on 27 July and moves the high-risk dates to 2027 and 2028. Article 50 duties still apply from 2 August.
- July 2026 Legal AI AI citation errors: a verification protocol for legal teams An independent database listed more than 1,770 cases as of 18 July 2026 in which courts or tribunals addressed generative-AI hallucinations or, in some entries, alleged AI use. A five-step verification protocol.
- July 2026 E-commerce law Marketplace intermediary liability in Turkey: three regimes to read together A marketplace's liability in Turkey sits where three regimes meet: e-commerce Law 6563, consumer Law 6502, and the 5651 content regime.
- July 2026 Platform regulation Marketplace ranking and algorithmic accountability: questions for the legal lead Ranking is now a legal surface under the DSA, DMA, P2B rules and Turkey's e-commerce law. What an in-house legal lead should ask about it.
- July 2026 Legal AI Legal AI: build, buy, or configure? Most legal teams should configure platforms, buy for commodity tasks, and build only the most sensitive work. A practitioner's decision frame.
- July 2026 Legal operations How to measure a legal automation pilot A pilot without metrics is a demo. Baseline the workflow, set error tolerances per task, and fix a kill-or-scale threshold before you start.
- July 2026 AI governance AI governance for in-house legal teams: five minimum controls Five minimum controls an in-house legal team needs before scaling generative AI: data handling, accountability, human review, records, error handling.
- July 2026 Data protection KVKK-compliant generative AI workflows for legal teams What KVKK expects when legal teams route personal data through generative AI: lawful basis, cross-border transfer mechanisms, minimization, records.
- July 2026 Legal operations An AI vendor due diligence checklist for legal teams Six questions a legal team should ask an AI vendor before signing: training data, prompt retention, subprocessors, IP indemnity, logging, and exit terms.
- July 2026 Legal market The billable hour is running out of logic AI deflates the hour itself. Next generation firms price the work, not the time.
- July 2026 Legal AI AI is quietly redrawing the legal industry Corporate legal use roughly doubled in a year; firm use rose by about half. The advantage is shifting from headcount to judgment and workflow design.
- July 2026 AI governance What generative AI actually changes for in-house legal teams Where generative AI earns its place in legal work, and where careful human judgment still has to sit.
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