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  1. LawCompass: Navigating from Legal QA to Multi-Agent Deep Research with Grounded Evidence

    Oct 1, 2026Xiaoxia Cheng, Linnan Wang, Jiahao Ma +5Legal Reasoning TasksLegal Domain

    Anhui University · Tsinghua University

  2. FORM: Robot Manipulation through Direct Material Law Identification

    Sep 29, 2026Stepan Tretiakov, Ruihan Zhao, Cheng-Hsi Hsiao +6Deformable Linear ObjectsRobotic Manipulation

    Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA. · Chandra Family Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering · Maseeh Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering +2

  3. EADC: Evaluation of Advanced and Deep-level Compliance in Large Language Models

    Sep 22, 2026Yan Zhang, Ruien Li, Yaoyao Peng +4ComplianceLegal Domain

    Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University · Department of Computer Sciences, University of Wisconsin - Madison · Law School, University of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

  4. How Much is a Human Right Worth? ECtHR-NPD: A Benchmark for Predicting Non-Pecuniary Damage Awards

    Sep 16, 2026Yanyi Pu, Damian A. Gonzalez-Salzberg, Zheng Yuan +1Legal DomainLegal Natural Language Processing Benchmarks

    School of Computer Science, University of Sheffield · Birmingham Law School, University of Birmingham

  5. The Mutations of Machine Speech

    Sep 8, 2026Mauricio FigueroaLegal DomainEntanglement

    Assistant Professor, Durham University

  6. Reading a Legal Question Word by Word: Embedding Trajectories of 2,144 Vietnamese Legal Headlines

    Sep 8, 2026Tran Minh QuanLegal DomainHeadlines

  7. Do Small Models Use the Law You Give Them? Measuring Context Use on a Bilingual Bangladesh Legal Benchmark

    Aug 31, 2026Moniruzzaman Mahadi, Abrar Mohammed Tanzim Alam, Sayma Siddika Monalisa +3Legal DomainBangla

    North South University · BRAC University

  8. GreekBarRetrieval: A Benchmark for Greek Statutory Retrieval

    Aug 19, 2026Ernest Beta, Odysseas S. Chlapanis, Dimitrios Galanis +1GreekLegal Domain

    Department of Informatics, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece · Archimedes, Athena Research Center, Greece · Institute for Language and Speech Processing, Athena Research Center, Greece

  9. Inferential Capability Does Not Determine Legal Scope

    Aug 11, 2026Nicola FabianoEu Artificial Intelligence ActLegal Domain

    Studio Legale Fabiano, Italy

  10. LexKairos: Benchmarking Legal Temporal Capabilities in LLMs

    Aug 10, 2026Chenyang Li, Zejia Feng, Yuqin Huang +2Legal Reasoning TasksLegal Domain

    University of Oxford · Sun Yat-Sen University · Tsinghua University

  11. PROSLEX: A Novel Dataset for Expert-Annotated Legal Statute Prediction for Indian Judiciary

    Aug 9, 2026Subinay Adhikary, Upal Bhattacharya, Vivek Kumar Singh +6Legal Reasoning TasksLegal Domain

    IISER Kolkata India · Utrecht University Netherlands · IIT Kharagpur India +2

  12. Legal Responsibilities Using Autonomous Agents For Artificial Intelligence

    Aug 8, 2026Mark BurgessArtificial Intelligence AgentsAutonomous Agents

    ChiTek-i AS

  13. Protecting patient privacy in clinical foundation models: Technical and legal perspectives

    Aug 7, 2026Sana Tonekaboni, Lena Stempfle, Sasha Ronaghi +4Medical World ModelPrivacy

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA · Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA · Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA +5

  14. Annotating Topical Legal Insights from Case Proceedings

    Jul 30, 2026Subinay Adhikary, Dwaipayan Roy, Debasis Ganguly +2Legal Domain

    Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata, India · University of Glasgow, United Kingdom · West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences, India

  15. Computational Extraction of Legal Causes via al-Sabr wa al-Taqsim: A Set-Theoretic Formalization for Closed Fiqh Chapters

    Jul 28, 2026Elnaser AbdelwahabLegal DomainExtraction

    makmad.org e.V. Hannover (Germany)

  16. LLM-Assisted Ontology Engineering and Construction of a French Legal Knowledge Graph

    Jul 27, 2026G{é}nesis Montenegro, Mokhtar Boumedyen Billami, Catherine Faron +2OntologyLegal Domain

    WIMMICS · Université Côte d’Azur, Inria, CNRS, I3S, Sophia-Antipolis, France · Berger-Levrault, Labège, France

  17. Visible to the Court: How AI Is (and Isn't) Litigated in U.S. Federal Court Opinions

    Jul 26, 2026Julie Yu, Rock Yuren Pang, Jevan Hutson +1Eu Artificial Intelligence ActCourt

    University of Washington Seattle, WA, USA

  18. LAWFUL: Law-Aligned Witness for Faithful Use of Latents

    Jul 26, 2026Kevin Chen, Kenneth W. Parker, Anish AroraInterpretabilityLegal Domain

    Computer Science & Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA · Independent Researcher, Waterford, Virginia, USA

  19. BLAD: A Historically Contextualized, Multilingual Dataset of Bangladeshi Legal Acts (1799 to 2025)

    Jul 19, 2026Adib SakhawatBanglaLegal Domain

    Systems and Software Lab (SSL) · Department of Computer Science and Engineering · Department of Computer Science and Engineering Islamic University of Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh

  20. The Anatomy of a Truth Direction: Knowledge-Dependent Dimensionality, a Relational Law, and a Shared Category Geometry in Small Language Models

    Jul 18, 2026Francesco Karim VicidominiTruthHidden States

    Independent researcher

  21. Do LLMs Fabricate Legal Citations? A Bilingual Benchmark on Saudi Data Protection Law and the GDPR

    Jul 13, 2026Noura Suliman AlrajehLegal DomainCitations

    IT Department, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

  22. When Reasoning Hurts Legal Drafting: The Verbalization Bottleneck in Patent Claim Generation

    Jul 11, 2026Lekang Jiang, Wenjun Sun, Stephan GoetzPatentLegal Reasoning Tasks

    University of Cambridge · National Science Library, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Department of Information Resources Management, School of Economics and Management, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences.

  23. Inject or Navigate? Token-Efficient Retrieval for LLM Analysis of Transactional Legal Documents

    Jul 7, 2026Mahmoud Hany, Mourad ElSheraey, Mahmoud Said +1Legal DomainText Corpora

    Syntheia Pty Ltd

  24. Beyond Accuracy: How Humans Evaluate Legally Correct but Socially Controversial Legal Advice from Machines

    Jul 6, 2026Benjamin Minhao Chen, Zhiyu LiLegal Reasoning TasksHuman Judgment

    a Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Hong Kong · b Associate Professor in Law and Policy, Durham Law School, Durham University

  25. Privilege and confidentiality in generative AI workflows

    Jul 6, 2026Václav Janeček, Thomas MelhamGenerative Artificial IntelligenceArtificial Intelligence Governance

    University of Bristol Law School · University of Oxford, Department of Computer Science

  26. Probing Stylistic Appropriation using Large Language Models: An Evaluation Framework for Copyright Infringement under EU Law

    Jun 30, 2026Noah Scharrenberg, Chang SunStylistic FidelityCopyright Defenses

    Department of Advanced Computing Sciences, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands. · Contractuo, Eindhoven, The Netherlands.

  27. Legal Domain Adaptation of Modern BERT Models

    Jun 26, 2026Dominik Stammbach, Peter HendersonBert-Based ModelsLegal Domain

    Princeton University Princeton, New Jersey, USA

  28. LLMs Prompted for Legal Context Object More: Overrefusal from Small On-Premises LLMs in Criminal Legal Context

    Jun 23, 2026Anastasiia Kucherenko, François Brouchoud, Dimitri Percia David +1Large Language Models FailRefusals

    IEM, HEG, HES-SO Valais-Wallis Sierre, Switzerland

  29. Peeking Inside LLMs: Leveraging Internal Artifacts of LLMs for Enhancing Reliability in Legal Classification

    Jun 18, 2026Sudipta Santra, Debtanu Datta, Saptarshi GhoshLegal Reasoning TasksLegal Domain

    Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur, 721302, West Bengal, India

  30. FineREX: Fine-Tuned NER-RE for Human Smuggling Knowledge Graphs

    Jun 18, 2026Elijah Feldman, Dipak Meher, Carlotta DomeniconiRelation ExtractionKnowledge Graphs

    Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, Annandale, VA, USA · Department of Computer Science, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA

  31. Freeing the Law with LOCUS: A Local Ordinance Corpus for the United States

    Jun 17, 2026Denis Peskoff, Joe Barrow, Christopher Vu +1Legal DomainText Corpora

    1UC Berkeley · School of Information · 3Independent

  32. LegalWorld: A Life-Cycle Interactive Environment for Legal Agents

    Jun 17, 2026Songhan Zuo, Shengbin Yue, Tao Chiang +4Legal DomainAgentic Evaluations

    Fudan University · Shanghai Innovation Institute · Northwest University of Political and Law

  33. TW-LegalBench: Measuring Taiwanese Legal Understanding

    Jun 17, 2026Fei-Yueh Chen, Chun Huang Lin, Chan Wei Hsu +4Legal DomainMultiple-Choice Questions

    University of Rochester Rochester, NY, USA · National Taiwan University Taipei, Taiwan · NVIDIA Santa Clara, CA, USA

  34. Legal Reasoning Is Not Lawyering: Rethinking Legal Benchmarks for Pro Se Access to Justice

    Jun 16, 2026Andrew Lou, David ShinLegal DomainArtificial Intelligence Benchmarks

    Yale Law School, USA

  35. LaWAM: Latent World Action Models for Efficient Dynamics-Aware Robot Policies

    Jun 14, 2026Jialei Chen, Kai Wang, Kang Chen +9Latent World ModelsAction Prediction

    Jilin University · Zhongguancun Academy · Nankai University +4

  36. DLawBench: Evaluating LLMs Through Multi-Turn Legal Consultation

    Jun 11, 2026Li Zhang, Yuzhen Shi, Yiran Hu +15Legal Reasoning TasksLegal Domain

    University of Pittsburgh · Alibaba Group · University of Waterloo +8

  37. LAUKIN: A Multi-jurisdictional Common Law Contract Dataset

    Jun 11, 2026Amrita Singh, Aditya Joshi, Jiaojiao Jiang +2Legal DomainNatural Language Processing

    Computer Science and Engineering, UNSW, Sydney, Australia · Law and Justice, UNSW, Sydney, Australia

  38. Beyond Probabilistic Similarity: Structural, Temporal, and Causal Limitations of Retrieval-Augmented Generation in the Legal Domain

    Jun 8, 2026Hudson de MartimLegal DomainCausal

    Federal Senate of Brazil, Brasília, Brazil

  39. Quantum-Inspired Trace-Augmented Evidence Selection for Reasoning over Structured Hypothesis Spaces

    Jun 5, 2026Laura Wynter, Nirvik Sahoo, Paul GriffinLegal Reasoning TasksLegal Domain

    School of Computing and Information Systems Singapore Management University Singapore

  40. On Wednesdays, We Ask Questions: Optimizing "Active Listening" in Automated Legal Triage and Referral

    May 29, 2026Quinten Steenhuis, Jacqueline HarveyLegal Reasoning TasksLegal Domain

    Suffolk University Law School Boston, United States of America

  41. Scaling Multi-Hop Training Data via Graph-Constrained Path Selection

    May 29, 2026Pengyu Chen, Yonggang Zhang, Mingming Chen +3Multi-Hop ReasoningReasoning Paths

    The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology · Hong Kong Generative AI Research and Development Center · Hong Kong Baptist University

  42. Multi-Legal-Bench: Evaluating LLMs on Legal Reasoning Across Jurisdictions, Languages, and Legal Traditions

    May 28, 2026Volodymyr OvcharovLegal Natural Language Processing BenchmarksLegal Domain

    SecondLayer

  43. Examining the Challenges of Intellectual Property in AI-Generated Productions

    May 26, 2026Ali Mazhar, Mohammad Zare, Marjan VeysiCopyright DefensesLegal Domain

    Attorney at Law, Central Bar Association, Tehran, Iran · Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Arioobarzan Engineering Team, Shiraz, Iran

  44. Retrieval-Augmented Detection of Potentially Abusive Clauses in Chilean Terms of Service

    May 25, 2026Christoffer Loeffler, Tomás Rey Pizarro, Daniel Ignacio Miranda Vásquez +1Legal DomainContracts

    School of Computer Engineering, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Brasil 2950, Valparaíso, 2340025, Chile. · Faculty of Law, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Av. Padre Hurtado 750,2026 Viña del Mar, 2581793, Chile.

  45. Generating Legal Commentaries from Case Databases via Retrieval, Clustering, and Generation

    May 23, 2026Max Prior, Niklas Wais, Matthias GrabmairLegal DomainGerman

    Technical University of Munich, Boltzmannstraße 3, 85748 Garching near Munich

  46. Verifiable Provenance and Watermarking for Generative AI: An Evidentiary Framework for International Operational Law and Domestic Courts

    May 20, 2026Gustav Olaf Yunus Laitinen-Fredriksson Lundström-Imanov, Nurana AbdullayevaWatermarkingGenerative Artificial Intelligence

    Department of Military Studies, Försvarshögskolan (Swedish Defence University), Drottning Kristinas väg 37, 115 93 Stockholm, Sweden · School of Law, ADA University, Ahmadbey Aghaoghlu Street 61, Baku AZ1008, Azerbaijan

  47. LP-Eval: Rubric and Dataset for Measuring the Quality of Legal Proposition Generation

    May 19, 2026Shanshan Xu, Johan Lindholm, Amogh Raina +2Legal Reasoning TasksLegal Domain

    University of Copenhagen · Umeå University

  48. Retrieval-Based Multi-Label Legal Annotation: Extensible, Data-Efficient and Hallucination-Free

    May 16, 2026Li Zhang, Jaromir Savelka, Kevin AshleyLegal DomainMulti-Label Classification

    University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA · Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

  49. Automatic Construction of a Legal Citation Graph from 100 Million Ukrainian Court Decisions: Large-Scale Extraction, Topological Analysis, and Ontology-Driven Clustering

    May 14, 2026Volodymyr OvcharovLegal DomainCitations

    LEX AI LLC, Kyiv, Ukraine

  50. LegalCheck: Retrieval- and Context-Augmented Generation for Drafting Municipal Legal Advice Letters

    May 12, 2026Virgill van der Meer, Julien RossiLegal DomainDrafts

    Municipality of Amsterdam · University of Amsterdam

  51. What should post-training optimize? A test-time scaling law perspective

    May 11, 2026Muheng Li, Jian Qian, Wenlong MouPost-TrainingTest Time

    Department of Statistical Sciences, University of Toronto† · Department of AI and Data Science, The University of Hong Kong ⋄

  52. LegalCiteBench: Evaluating Citation Reliability in Legal Language Models

    May 11, 2026Sijia Chen, Hang Yin, Shunfan ZhouLegal DomainCitations

    Northeastern University · Phala

  53. NyayaAI: An AI-Powered Legal Assistant Using Multi-Agent Architecture and Retrieval-Augmented Generation

    May 11, 2026Deepanshu, Divi Saxena, Deepali Rana +2Legal DomainMulti-Agent Large Language Model Systems

    School of Computer Science UPES, Dehradun, India

  54. When Does Trimming Help Conformal Prediction? A Retained-Law Diagnostic under Calibration Contamination

    May 7, 2026Congye WangOnline Conformal PredictionFinite-Sample Certificates

    Newcastle University

  55. TriBench-Ko: Evaluating LLM Risks in Judicial Workflows

    May 5, 2026Haesung Lee, Gyubin Choi, Eun-Ju Lee +5Legal DomainLarge Language Model Safety

    Center for Trustworthy AI, Seoul National University · Graduate School of Data Science, Seoul National University · Responsible AI Team, KT +1

  56. MAP-Law: Coverage-Driven Retrieval Control for Multi-Turn Legal Consultation

    May 2, 2026Qinchuan Cheng, Jiaqi Liu, Ruixuan Xie +2Legal DomainRetrievers

    1Xi’an Jiaotong University · 2Sichuan University · 3Southwestern University of Finance and Economics +1

  57. Democratizing the medieval English legal tradition

    May 1, 2026Michael Zhang, Elise Wang, Charlotte Whatley +2HandwritingLegal Domain

    University of Chicago, Chicago IL 60637 · California State University, Fullerton CA 92831 · University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison WI 53706 +2

  58. LegalMidm: Use-Case-Driven Legal Domain Specialization for Korean Large Language Model

    Apr 28, 2026Youngjoon Jang, Chanhee Park, Hyeonseok Moon +5Legal DomainDomain-Specific Language

    Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Korea University · KT (Korea Telecom)

  59. RoLegalGEC: Legal Domain Grammatical Error Detection and Correction Dataset for Romanian

    Apr 21, 2026Mircea Timpuriu, Mihaela-Claudia Cercel, Dumitru-Clementin CercelGrammatical Error CorrectionLegal Domain

    National University of Science and Technology POLITEHNICA Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania · Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University, Paris, France · University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania

  60. LePREC: Reasoning as Classification over Structured Factors for Assessing Relevance of Legal Issues

    Apr 21, 2026Fanyu Wang, Xiaoxi Kang, Paul Burgess +6Legal Reasoning TasksLegal Domain

    Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University, Australia · School of Information Technology, Monash University Malaysia · Faculty of Law, Monash University, Australia +1