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Guidelines and Regulations to Provide Insights on Public Policies to Ensure AI's Beneficial Use as a Professional Tool
International Bar Association, Alternative and New Law Business Structures Committee AI Working Group
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An IBA committee compendium first published in September 2024 and updated in February 2026, surveying guidelines, ethics opinions and statutes on lawyers' professional use of AI across multilateral organisations and more than 36 jurisdictions. It is descriptive rather than prescriptive but is the broadest cross-border map of bar-level AI guidance.
- Applies to
- lawyers, firms
- Effective
- See version history
- Current version
- February 2026 update · 01 Feb 2026
- Last verified
- 04 Sept 2026
What the document requires
- Country-by-country summaries of professional-ethics and liability rules touching AI use by lawyers.
- Notes that general professional-ethics and liability rules apply to AI even without AI-specific rules.
- Includes a chapter on multilateral organisations (UNESCO, OECD, Council of Europe, EU).
Version history
| Version | Date | What changed | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| February 2026 updatecurrent | 2026-02-01 | Updated country chapters; biennial updates intended. | official |
| First edition | 2024-09-18 | First version recorded. | official |
Sources
Cite this record
SafeLegalAI Legal AI Regulation Tracker, "Guidelines and Regulations to Provide Insights on Public Policies to Ensure AI's Beneficial Use as a Professional Tool" (International Bar Association, Alternative and New Law Business Structures Committee AI Working Group, February 2026 update, 2026-02-01), safelegalai.com/regulation/international/int-iba-anlbs-ai-professional-tool-guide (accessed 2026-09-04). Data: CC BY 4.0.
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