GenAI needs to be banned at law faculties under a precautionary principle

In higher education, including in academic legal education, GenAI dominates discourse. In this fusion and translation of two much-discussed articles published in the Netherlands, the authors argue that academic law schools should ban the use of GenAI for both students and academics, (in principle, under a precautionary principle). They identify several problems with GenAI use at law faculties; problems relating to the linguistic nature of law, to critical thinking and cognitive laziness, to scientific integrity, to self-confidence and to academic and professional distrust. They also argue that GenAI more generally threatens liberal democracy and the rule of law and focus on the relationship between technology and power. They respond to those that argue that GenAI should be embraced in legal education, and they conclude by calling upon law schools to remain critical, autonomous, resilient and assertive in the face of the forceful AI push.