AI Policy

Artificial Intelligence (AI) Policy

The Jurisocial Journal of International Law recognizes that artificial intelligence (AI), including generative AI and large language model (LLM) tools, is increasingly being used in academic research, writing, editing, translation, data analysis, and other scholarly activities. The journal does not prohibit the responsible use of AI-assisted technologies. However, their use must be consistent with principles of academic integrity, transparency, originality, accuracy, confidentiality, and research responsibility.

Responsible Use of AI by Authors

Authors may use AI-assisted tools to support legitimate scholarly activities, including language improvement, grammar and spelling correction, translation, formatting, brainstorming, literature organization, coding, data analysis, or other appropriate research-related tasks.

The use of AI does not transfer responsibility for the manuscript from the authors to the technology. Authors remain fully responsible for the accuracy, originality, integrity, and scholarly reliability of the entire manuscript, including any content produced or modified with the assistance of AI.

Authors must carefully review, verify, and, where necessary, revise AI-assisted content before submission. Particular care should be taken to verify citations, legal authorities, quotations, factual statements, case references, legislation, treaties, data, and other sources, as AI systems may generate inaccurate, incomplete, misleading, or non-existent information.

Disclosure of AI Use

Authors should disclose the use of AI-assisted technologies where AI has been used in a substantive manner in the preparation, analysis, or production of the manuscript.

Where disclosure is required, authors should identify:

  • The AI tool or system used;

  • The purpose and nature of its use; and

  • The relevant section or aspect of the manuscript in which the AI-assisted technology was used, where appropriate.

Routine use of basic tools for spelling, grammar, formatting, or language correction does not ordinarily require detailed disclosure unless the AI tool has generated or substantially altered the substantive content of the manuscript.

A suitable disclosure statement may be included in the Acknowledgements, Methodology, or other appropriate section of the manuscript, depending on the nature of the AI use.

AI and Authorship

AI tools, including ChatGPT and other generative AI systems, cannot be listed as authors or co-authors of a manuscript.

Authorship carries responsibility for the accuracy, integrity, originality, ethical compliance, and final approval of the published work. AI systems cannot assume these responsibilities. The human authors remain accountable for all content submitted to and published by the Jurisocial Journal of International Law.

Originality, Plagiarism, and AI-Generated Content

The use of AI does not exempt authors from the journal's requirements concerning plagiarism, copyright, attribution, and research integrity.

Authors must ensure that AI-assisted content does not contain improperly reproduced or unattributed material. Any quotations, ideas, data, arguments, legal authorities, or other intellectual contributions derived from existing sources must be appropriately acknowledged and cited.

AI-generated references and citations must be independently verified by the authors. Authors remain responsible for ensuring that cited sources actually exist, are accurately represented, and support the claims for which they are cited.

The journal may use appropriate editorial tools and human assessment to identify potential problems relating to originality, fabricated references, inaccurate information, or other forms of publication misconduct. The journal will not rely solely on an AI-detection score or automated indicator to determine whether misconduct has occurred. Any concern will be assessed in context and, where appropriate, the author will be given an opportunity to respond.

AI-Assisted Research and Analysis

Where AI is used substantially for research activities such as data analysis, coding, generation of tables or figures, interpretation, or other analytical processes, authors should provide sufficient information about the use of the technology to allow readers and editors to understand its role in the research.

Authors remain responsible for validating the methodology, outputs, results, and conclusions produced with the assistance of AI.

Confidentiality and Use of AI by Editors and Reviewers

Editors and peer reviewers must protect the confidentiality of submitted manuscripts.

Editors and reviewers must not upload manuscripts, unpublished research, confidential correspondence, or other privileged material into external AI systems where confidentiality cannot be adequately assured, unless appropriate authorization has been obtained.

AI tools must not be used as a substitute for the independent scholarly judgment and responsibility of editors or peer reviewers. Reviewers remain responsible for the content and recommendations contained in their reports.

Editorial Assessment of AI Use

The Jurisocial Journal of International Law does not consider the mere use of AI-assisted technology to be research misconduct.

The journal's primary concern is whether the use of AI has compromised the originality, accuracy, integrity, transparency, authorship, confidentiality, or scholarly quality of the manuscript.

Where concerns arise regarding undisclosed or inappropriate AI use, the editorial team may request clarification from the authors and may take appropriate action in accordance with the journal's publication-ethics and misconduct policies.

Depending on the circumstances, such action may include requesting disclosure or revision, conducting further editorial assessment, referring the matter for investigation, rejecting a manuscript, or taking appropriate corrective action after publication.

The Jurisocial Journal of International Law will periodically review this policy in light of developments in artificial intelligence, scholarly communication, research integrity, and internationally recognized publication-ethics standards.