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  1. Domain adaptation of Russian ModernBERT for long legal documents

    Oct 5, 2026I. Litvak, D. Gvozdetsky, F. Lashkin +7Language Model PretrainingLegal NLP

    Independent Researcher · National Research Nuclear University MEPhI · Moscow Center for Advanced Studies +1

  2. Breaking Bureaucracy: Evaluating open-source LLMs for legal document review

    Oct 5, 2026Farrukh Baratov, Niki van Stein, Suzan VerberneZero-Shot LearningLegal NLP

    Leiden University Leiden, the Netherlands

  3. ARCCS: An Automated Regulatory Compliance Checking System

    Oct 1, 2026Giorgos Filandrianos, José Menezes, Chrysoula Zerva +1Legal NLPLegal Document Analysis

    Instituto de Telecomunicações · AILS Lab; ECE, National Technical University of Athens · Instituto de Telecomunicações/IST, Universidade de Lisboa +1

  4. Automated Extraction of Records of Processing Activities (RoPA) Using Hybrid RAG and Locally Deployed Large Language Models

    Sep 23, 2026To Duy Hinh, Nguyen Le Quoc Anh, Phan Van Tri +1Retrieval-Augmented GenerationLegal NLP

    Academy of Cryptography Techniques, Ho Chi Minh City Campus, Government Cipher Committee, Vietnam · Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering, Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology (HCMUT), 268 Ly Thuong Kiet Street, Dien Hong Ward, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam · Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh City, Linh Xuan Ward, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

  5. LexLattice: Multilingual Extractive Summarization via Neural Cellular Automata on Document Hierarchies

    Sep 22, 2026Sujay Uday Rittikar, Sheela RamannaLegal NLPText Summarization

    Applied Computer Science The University of Winnipeg Winnipeg, MB

  6. Classifying Interpretive Canons at the Sentence Level: A Benchmark from the German Federal Constitutional Court

    Sep 22, 2026Felix RingeLegal NLPLLM Evaluation

    Department of Law, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

  7. Efficient LLM Distillation for Bangladesh Legal Context: A Smartphone-Compatible Retrieval-Augmented Generation Model

    Sep 21, 2026MD. Nafis Kamal, Mahadi Hasan Fahim, Talha Ridwan +4Retrieval-Augmented GenerationLegal NLP

    Computer Science and Engineering BRAC University Dhaka, Bangladesh

  8. GRACE: Grounded Adversarial Reasoning over Canadian Law

    Sep 20, 2026Jiakang Xu, Wantong Huo, Udom Silparcha +1Legal NLPLegal Reasoning

    University of Toronto · UTOA Computing Analytics Co., Ltd. · King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi

  9. Structured Four-Stage Legal Translation: From Natural-Language Traffic Rules to PROLOG

    Sep 17, 2026May Myo Zin, Wachara Fungwacharakorn, Ken Satoh +1Logic ProgrammingLegal NLP

    Center for Juris-Informatics, ROIS-DS, Tokyo, Japan

  10. 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 NLPLegal Judgment Prediction

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

  11. MUCnoHARM@GermEval Shared Task 2026: Retrieval-based In-Context Learning for Defamatory Offences, and Where It Falls Short

    Sep 9, 2026Kristin Gnadt, Maximilian Meidinger, Matthias AßenmacherLegal NLPIn-Context Retrieval

    Central Office for Information Technology in the Security Sector (ZITiS), Munich, Germany · Department of Statistics, LMU Munich, Germany · Munich Center for Machine Learning (MCML), Germany

  12. JPO: Juris Policy Optimization for Structured Legal Reasoning in Criminal Judgment Prediction

    Aug 30, 2026Zhaolu Kang, Yantao Liu, Tailong Luo +14Legal NLPLegal Judgment Prediction

    Hunyuan, Tencent · Peking University · Tsinghua University +5

  13. LexKairos: Benchmarking Legal Temporal Capabilities in LLMs

    Aug 10, 2026Chenyang Li, Zejia Feng, Yuqin Huang +2Legal NLPLLM Evaluation

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

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

    Aug 9, 2026Subinay Adhikary, Upal Bhattacharya, Vivek Kumar Singh +6Legal NLPLLM Evaluation

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

  15. ANNOTARES: A Dataset for Extracting Logical Structures from German Statutory Texts

    Aug 4, 2026Ronja Schwarz, Jannik StrötgenLegal NLPLegal Document Analysis

    Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences Moltkestr. 30, 76133 Karlsruhe, Germany

  16. Semantics of Subterfuge: Benchmarking Legal Deception Detection Against General-domain State-of-the-Art

    Jul 31, 2026Theekshana Samaradiwakara, Nisansa de Silva, George C. LobbLegal NLPLLM Evaluation

    Department of Computer Science & Engineering University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka · The Law Office of George C. Lobb Austin, Texas, USA

  17. Annotating Topical Legal Insights from Case Proceedings

    Jul 30, 2026Subinay Adhikary, Dwaipayan Roy, Debasis Ganguly +2Legal NLPHuman-in-the-Loop Annotation

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

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

    Jul 27, 2026G{é}nesis Montenegro, Mokhtar Boumedyen Billami, Catherine Faron +2Relation ExtractionKG Construction

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

  19. Reasoning Before Translation: Enhancing Legal Machine Translation with Structured Reasoning

    Jul 21, 2026Aixiu An, Michael Jungo, Eloi Eynard +4RL for Language ModelsLegal NLP

    iCoSys, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland, Fribourg, Switzerland · AIBEX, University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland · Neur.on, Fribourg, Switzerland +1

  20. Stop Removing Stopwords: How an Inherited Preprocessing Default Distorts Legal Text-as-Data

    Jul 21, 2026Gregory M. DickinsonLegal NLPText Classification

    The University of Nebraska College of Law, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States

  21. AILQA: Evaluating AI-Driven Legal Question Answering Systems for the Indian Legal System

    Jul 21, 2026Shubham Kumar Nigam, Shubham Kumar Mishra, Noel Shallum +2Retrieval-Augmented GenerationLegal NLP

    Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, 208016, Uttar Pradesh, India. · School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham, Dubai, UAE. · Law, Symbiosis Law School, Pune, 411014, Maharashtra, India. +1

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

    Jul 19, 2026Adib SakhawatLegal NLPLegal Document Analysis

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

  23. NOWJ@COLIEE 2026: Adaptive Pipelines for Legal Retrieval and Reasoning

    Jul 18, 2026Thuong-Hieu Ngo, Hoang-Trung Nguyen, Huu-Dong Nguyen +5Legal NLPLegal IR

    VNU University of Engineering and Technology Hanoi, Vietnam · Center for Juris-Informatics, ROIS-DS College of Engineering & Computer Science, VinUniversity Hanoi, Vietnam

  24. Cross-Architecture LLM Ensembles, Feature-Based Reranking and Retrieval-Augmented Prompting for Legal Information Processing

    Jul 13, 2026Amal Saad Alshehri, Nelly Bencomo, Amir Atapour-AbarghoueiLegal NLPLegal IR

    Durham University · Department of Computer Science · Durham, United Kingdom +2

  25. L-MAD: A Systematic Evaluation of Multi-Agent Debate Structures in Legal Reasoning

    Jul 10, 2026Tan-Minh Nguyen, Hoang-Trung Nguyen, Huu-Dong Nguyen +3Legal NLPMulti-Agent Debate

    Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST), Ishikawa, Japan · VNU University of Engineering and Technology, Hanoi, Vietnam

  26. Shortcut Learning in Legal Judgment Prediction: Empirical Evidence from the UK Employment Tribunal

    Jul 5, 2026Joe Watson, Joana Ribeiro de Faria, Marcus Tomalin +6Data LeakageLegal NLP

    Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom · The Psychometrics Centre, Cambridge Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom · Faculty of English, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom +3

  27. Open but Incompatible: A License Compatibility Analysis of Corpora for Low-Resource African Languages

    Jun 27, 2026Ernst van GassenLegal NLPLow-Resource Language Processing

    Arktos AI Lab Netherlands

  28. Legal Domain Adaptation of Modern BERT Models

    Jun 26, 2026Dominik Stammbach, Peter HendersonLegal NLPTransformer

    Princeton University Princeton, New Jersey, USA

  29. A Tree-of-Thoughts Inspired Hybrid Approach for Legal Case Judgement Summarization using LLMs

    Jun 26, 2026Aniket Deroy, Kripabandhu Ghosh, Saptarshi GhoshLegal NLPLLM Prompting

    IIT Kharagpur India · IISER Kolkata India

  30. LLM-Based Examination of Eligibility Criteria from Securities Prospectuses at the German Central Bank

    Jun 25, 2026Serhii Hamotskyi, Akash Kumar Gautam, Christian HänigFinancial ServicesLegal NLP

    Anhalt University of Applied Sciences