Author Accountability & Non-Authorship of AI

Generative AI tools and Large Language Models (LLMs) cannot be credited as authors, as they cannot assume legal responsibility, copyright liability, or ethical accountability for scholarly work.

Permitted vs. Prohibited Uses

• Permitted Uses: Basic language polishing, grammar correction, and structural reference checks, provided full disclosure is made in an 'AI Disclosure Statement' in the manuscript.

• Prohibited Uses: Generating substantive legal analysis, fabricating statutory provisions or judicial citations, falsifying data, or uploading unpublished third-party manuscripts into public AI tools.