ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TOOL USAGE IN WRITTEN WORK (Section XVIII of the 2024-25 Academic Rules, p. 41 excerpted below)
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Introduction: This rule balances the fact that writing is an indispensable skill for lawyers with the fact that the use of AI tools is likely to become an integral part of practice.
- For the purposes of this rule, artificial intelligence tools (“AI tools”) refer to large-language model (LLM) AI tools and do not include plagiarism checkers, grammar-check, spell-check, indexing, Bluebooking, or other citation or formatting tools such as those commonly used to generate tables of contents or bibliographies.
- AI-Generated Content (“AGC”) refers to substantive content generated by an AI tool or revisions generated by an AI tool that materially alter a student’s own writing. AI may be used for research purposes, such as to generate suggestions of sources or topics; however, any material copied from or substantially derived from a query to an AI tool shall constitute AGC. Students remain responsible for the accuracy of any information generated by a query to an AI tool.
- No AGC may be included in written work submitted for credit in either the JD or any of the Masters of Laws programs, unless the instructor explicitly permits such use in writing. If there is a course syllabus, the permission must be granted in the syllabus. If there is no syllabus, such as in the supervision of journal comments, the permission must be granted in a written communication.
- In any submission of written work for credit, students must disclose the use of AI tools or any AGC included in their submissions. The failure to disclose the use of AI tools or AGC, as well as any other representation of AGC as student-drafted content, will be treated as plagiarism, as defined in Section I.1.d of the Law School’s Honor Code.
- Nothing in this policy alters any other rule pertaining to plagiarism, as defined in Section I.1.d of the Law School’s Honor Code.
