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

    May 23, 2026Max Prior, Niklas Wais, Matthias GrabmairLegal Document AnalysisLegal Reasoning

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

  2. Decompose-and-Refine: Structured Legal Question Answering with Parametric Retrieval

    May 23, 2026Jihyung lee, Hyounghun Kim, Gary LeeMulti-Hop QALegal IR

    Graduate School of Artificial Intelligence, POSTECH, Republic of Korea · Department of Computer Science and Engineering, POSTECH, Republic of Korea

  3. GradeLegal: Automated Grading for German Legal Cases

    May 20, 2026Abdullah Al Zubaer, Lorenz Wendlinger, Simon Alexander Nonn +2LLM EvaluationAutomated Grading

    University of Passau Passau, Germany · Deggendorf Institute of Technology Deggendorf, Germany

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

    May 19, 2026Shanshan Xu, Johan Lindholm, Amogh Raina +2Legal NLPLLM Evaluation

    University of Copenhagen · Umeå University

  5. Reasoners or Translators? Contamination-aware Evaluation and Neuro-Symbolic Robustness in Tax Law

    May 15, 2026Parisa Kordjamshidi, Samer Aslan, Madhavan Seshadri +2Data Contamination in Language ModelsNeuro-Symbolic Reasoning

    Bloomberg · Michigan State University

  6. Falkor-IRAC: Graph-Constrained Generation for Verified Legal Reasoning in Indian Judicial AI

    May 14, 2026Joy BoseLegal Citation VerificationGraph Retrieval-Augmented Generation

    Independent Researcher, Bengaluru, India

  7. Bridging Legal Interpretation and Formal Logic: Faithfulness, Assumption, and the Future of AI Legal Reasoning

    May 13, 2026Olivia Peiyu Wang, Leilani H. GilpinLLM GroundingNeuro-Symbolic Reasoning

    University of California, Santa Cruz

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

    May 12, 2026Virgill van der Meer, Julien RossiRetrieval-Augmented GenerationLegal Reasoning

    Municipality of Amsterdam · University of Amsterdam

  9. Magis-Bench: Evaluating LLMs on Magistrate-Level Legal Tasks

    May 8, 2026Ramon Pires, Thales Sales Almeida, Celio Larcher Junior +6Legal NLPLLM Evaluation

    Maritaca AI Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil · Jusbrasil Salvador, Bahia, Brazil

  10. Alignment as Jurisprudence

    May 8, 2026Nicholas CaputoLLM AlignmentLegal Reasoning

    Researcher – Legal Alignment on Frontier AI at the Oxford Martin AI Governance Initiative

  11. Accurate Legal Reasoning at Scale: Neuro-Symbolic Offloading and Structural Auditability for Robust Legal Adjudication

    May 4, 2026Stanisław Sójka, Witold KowalczykExplainable Artificial IntelligenceLegal Document Analysis

    Delos AI Inc.

  12. Can Causal Discovery Algorithms Help in Generating Legal Arguments?

    May 4, 2026Soham Wasmatkar, Subinay Adhikary, Rakshit Rohan +3Computational ArgumentationLegal Reasoning

    Manipal University Jaipur, Jaipur, Rajasthan, 303007, India · Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Kolkata, Mohanpur, 741246, India · The West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata, 700098, India

  13. Enhancing Judgment Document Generation via Agentic Legal Information Collection and Rubric-Guided Optimization

    May 3, 2026Weihang Su, Xuanyi Chen, Yueyue Wu +2Legal Document AnalysisAgentic RAG

    Tsinghua University · Beijing, China · Quan Cheng Laboratory +1

  14. ViLegalNLI: Natural Language Inference for Vietnamese Legal Texts

    Apr 30, 2026Nhung Thi-Hong Duong, Mai Ngoc Ho, Tin Van Huynh +1Legal ReasoningNatural Language Inference

    University of Information Technology, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. · Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

  15. Persuadability and LLMs as Legal Decision Tools

    Apr 29, 2026Oisin Suttle, David LillisLLM AuditingLLM Decision-Making

    School of Law and Criminology Maynooth University Maynooth, Ireland · School of Computer Science University College Dublin Dublin, Ireland

  16. Towards Lawful Autonomous Driving: Deriving Scenario-Aware Driving Requirements from Traffic Laws and Regulations

    Apr 27, 2026Bowen Jian, Rongjie Yu, Hong Wang +2Autonomous DrivingLegal Document Analysis

    College of Transportation, Tongji University, Shanghai, 201804, China · The Key Laboratory of Road and Traffic Engineering, Ministry of Education, Shanghai, 201804, China · School of Vehicle and Mobility, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China +2

  17. LegalDrill: Diagnosis-Driven Synthesis for Legal Reasoning in Small Language Models

    Apr 26, 2026Tianchun Li, Haochen Liu, Vishwa Pardeshi +5Synthetic Data GenerationSmall Language Models

    Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA · Fidelity Investments, Boston, MA, USA

  18. GLIER: Generative Legal Inference and Evidence Ranking for Legal Case Retrieval

    Apr 26, 2026Minghan Li, Tianrui Lv, Chao Zhang +1Legal IRLearning to Rank

    Soochow University, Suzhou, China

  19. Expert Evaluation of LLM's Open-Ended Legal Reasoning on the Japanese Bar Exam Writing Task

    Apr 26, 2026Jungmin Choi, Keisuke Sakaguchi, Hiroaki YamadaLLM EvaluationHallucination in Language Models

    RIKEN · Tohoku University · Tokyo Metropolitan University

  20. Learning When Not to Decide: A Framework for Overcoming Factual Presumptuousness in AI Adjudication

    Apr 21, 2026Mohamed Afane, Emily Robitschek, Derek Ouyang +1AI-Assisted Decision MakingStructured Prompting

    Stanford University · Stanford, CA, USA

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

    Apr 21, 2026Fanyu Wang, Xiaoxi Kang, Paul Burgess +6Neuro-Symbolic ReasoningLegal Reasoning

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

  22. JudgeMeNot: Personalizing Large Language Models to Emulate Judicial Reasoning in Hebrew

    Apr 20, 2026Itay Razumenko, Arnon Sturm, Nir GrinbergLegal NLPLLM Personalization

    Computer and Information Science Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Beer-Sheva, Israel

  23. PoliLegalLM: A Technical Report on a Large Language Model for Political and Legal Affairs

    Apr 19, 2026Yuting Huang, Yinghao Hu, Qian Xiao +7LLM GroundingLanguage Model Post-Training

    Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China · Tongyi Lab, Alibaba Group, Hangzhou, China · Zhejiang Zhengfa Xinxi Guanli Zhongxin, Hangzhou, China

  24. From Benchmarking to Reasoning: A Dual-Aspect, Large-Scale Evaluation of LLMs on Vietnamese Legal Text

    Apr 17, 2026Van-Truong LeLLM EvaluationLegal Document Analysis

    University of Science, VNUHCM Vietnam National University Hanoi Open University Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam · Vietnam National University · Hanoi Open University

  25. ContextLens: Modeling Imperfect Privacy and Safety Context for Legal Compliance

    Apr 14, 2026Haoran Li, Yulin Chen, Huihao Jing +6LLM Safety EvaluationAI Assurance

    Beihang University · HKUST · National University of Singapore +1

  26. Legal2LogicICL: Improving Generalization in Transforming Legal Cases to Logical Formulas via Diverse Few-Shot Learning

    Apr 13, 2026Jieying Xue, Phuong Minh Nguyen, Ha Thanh Nguyen +2Legal ReasoningLegal NLP

    Center for Juris-Informatics, ROIS-DS, Tokyo, Japan · Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Ishikawa, Japan

  27. From Query to Counsel: Structured Reasoning with a Multi-Agent Framework and Dataset for Legal Consultation

    Apr 12, 2026Mingfei Lu, Yi Zhang, Mengjia Wu +1Legal QALegal Reasoning

    Australian Artificial Intelligence Institute (AAII), University of Technology Sydney · School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham

  28. AI Achieves a Perfect LSAT Score

    Apr 11, 2026Bonmu KuLLM ReasoningLLM Evaluation

  29. Beyond Imperfect Alternatives with Rulemapping: A Neuro-Symbolic Case Study on Online Hate Speech

    Apr 10, 2026Oskar von CosselLegal ReasoningLegal NLP

    Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law Hamburg, Germany · Rulemapping Group Berlin, Germany

  30. NyayaMind- A Framework for Transparent Legal Reasoning and Judgment Prediction in the Indian Legal System

    Apr 10, 2026Parjanya Aditya Shukla, Shubham Kumar Nigam, Debtanu Datta +5Legal Judgment PredictionLegal Reasoning

    IIT Kanpur, India · University of Birmingham, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · IIT Kharagpur, India +2