AI TOOL POLICY

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) POLICY

Estudiante Law Journal (ESLAW)
Effective from Volume 8, Issue 1, 2026

Estudiante Law Journal (ESLAW) recognizes that Artificial Intelligence (AI), including generative AI, is increasingly used as a supporting technology in academic research, writing, and publishing. ESLAW permits the responsible and limited use of AI tools, provided that such use does not replace human authorship, intellectual contribution, legal reasoning, or scholarly responsibility.

This policy applies to authors, editors, and reviewers and is intended to safeguard academic integrity, transparency, confidentiality, and the quality of scholarly publishing.

For Authors

Authors may use AI tools for limited and supportive purposes, including grammar and spelling checks, language editing, translation, summarizing research materials, organizing ideas, and developing search keywords. However, the use of AI must not replace the author's own intellectual contribution, particularly in developing research questions, legal arguments, analysis, interpretation, findings, and conclusions.

Authors remain fully responsible for the accuracy, originality, and integrity of their manuscripts. All information, references, legal provisions, court decisions, quotations, and other materials obtained or suggested by AI must be independently verified against reliable and authoritative sources.

AI tools cannot be listed as authors or co-authors.

Authors must disclose the use of AI when it is used substantively to generate or develop manuscript text, analyze research materials or data, produce or modify figures, tables, or visualizations, or otherwise materially influence the content of the manuscript. The disclosure should identify the AI tool used and the purpose of its use.

A recommended disclosure statement is:

AI Use Disclosure: The authors used [name of AI tool] to assist with [purpose of use]. All AI-assisted outputs were reviewed and verified by the authors. The authors remain fully responsible for the content, analysis, arguments, sources, and conclusions presented in the manuscript.

Simple use of AI for spelling, grammar, or punctuation correction does not require disclosure, provided that it does not involve the generation of substantive content.

Authors are prohibited from using AI to generate all or substantial parts of a manuscript in a manner that replaces their intellectual contribution, fabricate or manipulate research data, create fictitious references or legal authorities, generate unsupported legal arguments or conclusions, or incorporate unverified AI-generated content into the manuscript.

For Editors

Editors must maintain the confidentiality and integrity of the editorial process. Submitted manuscripts must not be uploaded to external AI systems for substantive evaluation, editorial decision-making, or other purposes that may compromise the confidentiality of the manuscript or the intellectual property of the authors.

Editorial decisions must remain based on independent human judgment and the academic standards of ESLAW.

For Reviewers

Reviewers must maintain strict confidentiality throughout the peer-review process. Manuscripts or any part thereof must not be uploaded to generative AI systems for purposes including content analysis, summarization, translation, language editing, preparation of review reports, or formulation of recommendations to the editor.

Reviewers remain fully responsible for the independence, objectivity, confidentiality, and integrity of their peer-review reports.

AI Screening and Editorial Assessment

ESLAW may conduct appropriate checks where there are reasonable indications of inappropriate or undisclosed use of AI. AI-detection results may be considered as one element of the editorial assessment, but shall not, by themselves, constitute the sole basis for accepting or rejecting a manuscript.

Where concerns arise, the editors may request clarification from the authors and consider the manuscript's originality, source quality, consistency of analysis, AI-use disclosure, and other relevant evidence.

Breach of the Policy

Failure to comply with this policy may result in appropriate editorial action, including a request for clarification or correction, suspension of the review process, rejection of the manuscript, withdrawal of an accepted or published article, or other measures in accordance with ESLAW's publication ethics policies.

Where a violation is identified after publication, ESLAW may take appropriate post-publication action in accordance with its policies on publication ethics and research integrity.

Policy Review

This policy may be reviewed and updated periodically in response to developments in AI technology, academic integrity standards, scholarly publishing practices, and relevant legal and ethical requirements.

ESLAW's fundamental principle is that AI may assist academic work, but it must never replace human authorship, legal reasoning, intellectual contribution, or responsibility for scholarly work.