School AI policy
Boston University School of Law
What Boston University School of Law has published about AI use in coursework, from the school's own documents, checked Sept '26.
What the school says
The published policy
BU Law's 'Provisional BUSL AI Policy,' hosted directly on the school's own file server, leaves the specific AI rules for any course to the instructor, but sets school-wide baseline duties: students must know and follow their course's AI policy, must maintain accuracy and client confidentiality regardless of AI use, and must attribute AI use the same way a human research assistant would be attributed (explicitly adapted from Harvard Law School's policy). This document is separate from and not yet referenced in the current J.D. Student Handbook, which itself contains no AI language.
From the school’s own document: “It is up to instructors to set the AI policy”
AI disclosure on submitted work: Permitted with disclosure under the documents reviewed.
Policy source
The school’s policy pageHonor code
The school’s honor codeAfter graduation
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This page states only what Boston University School of Law’s own published documents said when checked in Sept '26; schools revise these documents, sometimes at the same URL, so confirm the current version before relying on it. This is informational research, not legal or academic advice; the school’s current honor code and your professors’ instructions control. To correct this page, contact us with the school’s current document.
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