Articles and essays concerning all areas of the law are published in our six annual issues and our Annual Review of Criminal Procedure.

The Georgetown Law Journal is also committed to encouraging and developing students’ scholarly writing. To this end, the Journal typically publishes several select student notes in each issue.

Artificial Intelligence Policy

1. The Georgetown Law Journal is committed to keeping human-written work at the core of legal scholarship. The Author represents and warrants that (i) the Author is the sole author of the Work; (ii) the Work’s written text—its above-the-line content,[1] below-the-line text,[2] and below-the-line citation parentheticals—[3] has not been written with assistance from generative artificial intelligence in a manner that would constitute plagiarism—including, but not limited to, copying and pasting from generative artificial intelligence;[4] (iii) if the Author used research assistance from generative artificial intelligence, any content produced from the research was then verified by a human researcher or writer; (iv) the Author has full power and authority to enter into this Publication License and to grant to the Journal the rights and licenses described in Section I; and (v) the Author has not previously granted or otherwise conveyed any such rights or licenses to any other person or entity.
2. The Georgetown Law Journal understands that many modern legal research tools incorporate artificial intelligence and the Journal acknowledges the modern ubiquity of using these tools; however, the Author understands that the Journal retains the right to void this Agreement should the Work contain clear signs of unverified generative artificial intelligence usage that is inconsistent with Paragraph III.1—including, but not limited to, hallucinated cases or quotations.

[1] “Above-the-line content” refers to all content that appears above the citation division on the page—including, but not limited to, textual sentences, visual diagrams, and charts.

[2] “Below-the-line text” refers to all textual sentences within footnotes and excludes citation sentences.

[3] “Below-the-line citation parentheticals” refers to all explanatory phrases within parentheses at the end of a legal citation.

[4] The Georgetown Law Journal does not consider spell check or grammar check to be generative artificial intelligence. Brainstorming with the assistance of generative artificial intelligence is not prohibited.