Streamlining legal research with Oxford Law Pro

We are pleased to have launched Oxford Law Pro, a new knowledge resource for legal professionals and researchers.

Oxford Law Pro brings together more than 9,000 journal articles and over 600 award-winning, peer-reviewed books from our portfolio of authoritative and timely legal analysis, in key areas ranging from technology regulation to intellectual property law. Available alongside this research is Expert Essentials—short-form commentary from industry experts about critical topics impacting legal practice, such as environmental science, ESG, and technology.

Oxford Law Pro marks a milestone in our commitment to supporting the legal community by ensuring innovation and excellence in legal research. 

Merel Alstein, Head of Acquisition for Professional & Law, said: 

“We’re proud to support legal professionals right from their studies all the way to advising their clients. OUP has a stellar reputation in legal research because of the quality, originality, and breadth of our content. Our books, journal articles, and short form pieces are written by leading practitioners and thinkers in their fields, ensuring that our resources are both deeply reliable and at the cutting edge of new developments. 

“We are excited to help lawyers, legal advisers, and general counsel speed up their research and further improve the quality of their work.” 

Hosted on Oxford Academic, Oxford Law Pro is powered by a conversational AI research assistant, making legal research more efficient without compromising on accuracy. The tool navigates our quality-assured legal research content to deliver precise summaries, source links, and relevancy scores. It only returns trusted OUP sources, allowing researchers and legal professionals to expand their expertise by interrogating an unrivalled collection of legal research resources.

We have taken a responsible approach to investing in AI capabilities by integrating them into our existing products with a focus on trust, quality, and control, to further our publishing mission. Developed with Silverchair, the assistant is the latest addition to our line of AI-powered tools for researchers.

John Campbell, Product Strategy Director for our Academic division, said: 

“Oxford Law Pro strengthens OUP’s position as a leading legal publisher and represents the qualities we’re recognized for: leadership, trust, integrity, and peer-reviewed insight. We want to support a responsible and sustainable future for AI tools in the research community, so we only develop tools that solve the problems of our customers and users. 

“AI tools should work alongside expert human input, identifying the relevant content you need and making your discovery of scholarship quicker, whatever your specialism. With Silverchair, we’ve taken great care in ensuring Oxford Law Pro’s AI assistant is trustworthy thanks to the experts that are tuning and testing it. It’s not simply a black box being put in front of customers; it adheres to our editorial reputation and the excellence they expect from our products.” 

Merel continues: 

“For lawyers, accuracy is everything. Credibility rests on having access to reliable information—risking hallucinations and bias through low-quality AI tools is not an option. We want to equip legal professionals with original thinking supported by our strong, global academic connections on an easy-to-use platform, with AI tools that work with them. We are excited to see what lawyers can achieve with Oxford Law Pro.” 

You can find out more about Oxford Law Pro here.