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Wednesday, June 3, 2026

AI Ban at Berkeley Law

From Law.com: University of California Berkeley School of Law has implemented a strict new AI policy, joining a growing number of law schools that have adopted similar policies to ban the use of AI on assignments, as universities work to balance teaching the use of AI tools while also mitigating AI-assisted cheating. The policy, which goes into effect this summer, is sweeping and bans the use of AI for anything from brainstorming, organizing and grammar checking, to translating a paper written in a different language. Further, the policy states that AI can be used for research on papers “for the limited purpose of identifying sources, such as cases, statutes or secondary sources,” which is the only allowable use...

“We want to prevent its use in writing exams and papers ... (because) we want to be grading the students’ work,” Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of UC Berkeley Law, told Law.com. “The policy adopted by the faculty seeks to make clear to students what is not allowed.” ...

Full story at https://www.law.com/therecorder/2026/05/26/berkeley-law-implements-ai-ban-/.

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