GoKawiilEffective Summer 2026
Purpose
Future lawyers may need to use artificial intelligence (“AI”) fluently. But the current state of the technology requires that AI use be coupled with the cognitive skills necessary to strategically deploy the technology, to critically assess its work product, and to uphold ethical obligations to clients and to the legal system. In short, thinking remains the sine qua non of good lawyering (and of a quality legal education). This policy seeks to ensure that our courses focus on requisite cognitive skills by default. It provides students with the opportunity to develop the skills they need to conceptualize, outline, draft, revise, and edit their work by forbidding the use of AI for these purposes in connection with work submitted for credit. It also forbids using AI to translate work for credit, thus providing students with the opportunity to develop and exercise their own fluency with legal English. And it prohibits AI use for any purpose in any exam situation. Activities violating the rule include (but are not limited to):
Asking an AI tool to brainstorm a paper topic or thesis (prohibited conceptualizing)
Asking an AI tool to propose an organizational structure for a paper (prohibited outlining)
Asking an AI tool to compose a paragraph summarizing a legal rule for use in a paper (prohibited drafting)
Asking an AI tool to identify repetitive passages in a paper that should be cut (prohibited revising)
Asking an AI tool to polish a paper by correcting grammatical mistakes (prohibited editing)
Asking AI to generate an exam outline, elements of which are then used on the exam (prohibited exam use)
Asking AI to translate a paper originally written in another language into English (prohibited translating)
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