Policy on the Use of AI

This policy applies to all manuscripts submitted to the International Journal of Law and Legal Advancement. It aims to ensure transparency, research integrity, and responsible use of generative AI and AI-assisted tools in the preparation of scholarly work. Generative AI and AI-assisted tools cannot be listed as authors or co-authors. All listed authors must ensure that the work is original, lawfully prepared, and does not infringe third-party rights. Generative AI or AI-assisted tools must not be used to create or modify figures, images, or artwork in submitted manuscripts.

Authors may use generative AI and AI-assisted tools to support tasks such as:

• Literature structuring and summarization
• Improving language clarity and readability
• Organizing content

However

• AI tools must not replace human critical thinking or expertise.
• Authors remain fully responsible and accountable for the accuracy, completeness, impartiality, and originality of the manuscript.

Authors must

• Check AI outputs for factual errors, bias, and fabricated references.
• Thoroughly edit and adapt any AI-generated text so it reflects their own analysis and ideas.
• Review the terms and conditions of the tool to ensure that:
• The privacy and confidentiality of data (including unpublished manuscripts and any personal data) are protected.
• Only limited rights are granted to the tool (for service provision), and not broader rights such as using the content to train models.
• Tool terms do not restrict future publication of the work in the IJLLA.
• Avoid uploading content that may infringe their own, third-party, or IJLLA’s intellectual property rights.

Authors must disclose any significant use of generative AI or AI-assisted tools in writing the manuscript. Use of AI tools in data analysis or research methods should be described in the Methods section (or subsection), with sufficient detail to ensure reproducibility. No disclosure is needed for standard spelling and grammar checkers or reference managers used only for organizing and formatting references. A “Declaration of AI Use” must be added at the end of the manuscript; a sample is given below;

 

The authors declare that the AI tool [name and version of tool] was used [for language editing and readability improvement / to assist with drafting / to restructuring sections / to summarizing background literature / for both in the writing and methodological stages / etc] in the preparation of this manuscript. The tool did not generate original research ideas, research data, analyses, or conclusions. All content was critically reviewed, verified, and edited by the authors, who take full responsibility for the accuracy and integrity of the work.