Accepted Papers
Demonstrations
Data Augmented Pipeline for Legal Information Extraction and Reasoning
Authors: Nguyen, Phuong Minh; Nguyen, Ha-Thanh; Zin, May Myo; Satoh, Ken
Ordinance Template Composition System
Authors: Kakuta, Tokuyasu; Yoshimura, Kyoko; Owa, Tamaki; Sasaki, Ukyo; Saito, Daich
Scaling Legal Workflows with PluribusUnum: A Neuro-Symbolic Framework for Generative AI in High-Stakes Domains
Authors: Ndikum, Philip; Ndikum, Serge
AF-XRAY: Visual Explanation and Resolution of Ambiguity in Legal Argumentation Frameworks
Authors: Xia, Yilin; Zheng, Heng; Bowers, Shawn; Ludaescher, Bertram
Legal Explanation in Defeasible Deontic Logic via LegalRuleML
Authors: Governatori, Guido; Palmirani, Monica
MAIA:AI System for Repetitive Demand Resolution in Brazil
Authors: Barbosa Pacheco, Eduardo Caruso; Machado Pinto, Glauber
A Demonstration of a Semi-Structured Legal Reasoning Framework
Authors: Westermann, Hannes
ViNo — A Tool for the Visualisation of Norms
Authors: Steffes, Bianca; Sasdelli, Diogo
Leveraging Artificial Intelligence as a Decision Support System in Belgian Commercial Courts
Authors: Van Ruymbeke, Stijn; Audenaert, Aruna; Arno, Henri; Habils, Tibe; Baeck, Joke; Mulier, Klaas; Demeester, Thomas
ALEXChat: a Generative – Symbolic Approach to Legal eXplainability
Authors: Billi, Marco; Parenti, Alessandro; Pisano, Giuseppe; Sanchi, Marco
explainy: A Toolkit for Legal-XAI
Authors: Kesari, Aniket; Ash, Elliott; Bechtold, Stefan; Luzzatto, Mauro
Feasibility of Artificial Intelligence Driven Analysis in the Context of Nepalese Legal System
Authors: Dhakal, Abhiyan; Kafle, Pranish; Paudel, Kausik; Sujakhu, Sugat; Poudyal, Prakash
Full Papers
Applying a Fidelity Approach to Choices in Encoding Legislation
Authors: Godfrey, Nicholas
Logical Modalities within the European AI Act: An Analysis
Authors: Lawniczak, Lara; Benzmüller, Christoph
Intents in Actions
Authors: Friedenberg, Meir; Halpern, Joseph
Assessing the performance gap between lexical and semantic models for information retrieval with formulaic legal language
Authors: Mori, Larissa; Sousa de Oliveira, Carlos; Yih, Yuehwern; Ventresca, Mario
A Causal Model Checker for Legal Cases
Authors: Liepina, Ruta; de Lima, Tiago; Lorini, Emiliano; Pisano, Giuseppe; Sartor, Giovanni
Tipping the Scales: Balancing Principles
Authors: Araszkiewicz, Michal; Zurek, Tomasz; Wyner, Adam; Van Engers, Tom
LLMs for Legal Subsumption in German Employment Contracts
Authors: Wardas, Oliver; Matthes, Florian
DRAssist: Dispute Resolution Assistance using Large Language Models
Authors: Pawar, Sachin Sharad; Apte, Manoj; Palshikar, Girish Keshav; Ali, Basit; Ramrakhiyani, Nitin
On Compatibility between Situation Outcome Cases and Logical Cases
Authors: Fungwacharakorn, Wachara; Paulino-Passos, Guilherme; Verheij, Bart; Satoh, Ken
Generating Legal Arguments with Automatically Identified Factor Magnitudes
Authors: Gray, Morgan; Savelka, Jaromir; Oliver, Wesley; Ashley, Kevin
Bridging Legal Knowledge and AI: Retrieval-Augmented Generation with Vector Stores, Knowledge Graphs, and Hierarchical Non-negative Matrix Factorization
Authors: Barron, Ryan Calvin; Eren, Maksim Eken; Serafimova, Olga M; Matuszek, Cynthia; Alexandrov, Boian
Is It Worth Using LLMs for Unfair Clause Detection in Terms of Service?
Authors: Panarelli, Marco; Galassi, Andrea; Lagioia, Francesca; Liepiņa, Rūta; Lippi, Marco; Pałka, Przemysław; Sartor, Giovanni
Judicial Discretion as Normative Reasoning: Deontic Characterization of Judicial Decision Making with Answer Set Programming
Authors: Dik, Josephine; Markovich, Réka
Universal Legal Article Prediction via Tight Collaboration between Supervised Classification Model and LLM
Authors: Chi, Xiao; Zhong, Wenlin; Wu, Yiquan; Wang, Wei; Kuang, Kun; Wu, Fei; Xiong, Minghui
Towards Machine-Readable Traffic Laws: Formalizing Traffic Rules into PROLOG Using LLMs
Authors: Zin, May Myo; Borges, Georg; Satoh, Ken; FUNGWACHARAKORN, Wachara
DeCoRA: Definition and Context Reasoning in Argumentation
Authors: Mai, Ngoc-Duy; Le, Xuan-Bach; Vuong, Thi-Hai-Yen; Nguyen, Ha-Thanh; Stathis, Kostas; Satoh, Ken
Modelling Cause-in-Fact in Legal Cases through Defeasible Argumentation
Authors: Pisano, Giuseppe; Prakken, Henry; Sartor, Giovanni; Liepina, Ruta
Evaluating Methods for Scenario Reasoning using Bayesian Networks in Exhaustive and Non-Exhaustive Settings
Authors: van Leeuwen, Ludi Simone; Verheij, Bart; Verbrugge, Rineke; Renooij, Silja
AI-based Consumers’ Creditworthiness Fate Needs EU ‘Lawgorithmics’ to Innovate
Authors: Rebelo, Diogo Morgado; Andrade, Francisco Pacheco de; Novais, Paulo
Decoding SEC Actions: Enforcement Trends through Analyzing Blockchain Litigation using LLM-based Thematic Factor Mapping
Authors: Luo, Junliang; Xiong, Xihan; Knottenbelt, William; Liu, Xue
Automated Mapping of Legal Criteria to the Texts of Adjudicatory Decisions Using LLMs
Authors: Westermann, Hannes; Walker, Vern; Savelka, Jaromir
Curb Your Enthusiasm: Towards a RAG Framework to Forecast Case Importance in the ECHR
Authors: Bareham, David; Atkinson, Katie; Mumford, Jack; Marshall, Jeremy
Using Interpretability to Uncover Legal Petition Structures and Optimize Text Classification
Authors: Almeida, Vitor; Pires, Rilder S.; Monteiro Neto, João A.; Furtado, Vasco
From Legal Text to Tech Specs: Generative AI’s Interpretation of Consent in Privacy Law
Authors: Kesari, Aniket; Breaux, Travis; Norton, Thomas; Santos, Sarah; Singhal, Anmol
Rule-based Deontic Case-based Reasoning
Authors: Rotolo, Antonino; Di Florio, Cecilia; Governatori, Guido
Automating Legal Reasoning with Generative AI: A Framework for Judicial Decision Support
Authors: Bomfim, Francisco das Chagas Jucá; das Neves, Alicia Souza; Silva, Sara Pessoa; Monteiro Neto, Joao Araujo; Furtado, Vasco; Pinheiro, Vladia
Addressing the Right to Explanation and the Right to Challenge through Hybrid-AI: Symbolic Constraints over Large Language Models via Prompt Engineering
Authors: Liga, Davide; Markovich, Réka; Yu, Liuwen
Justifying Black-Box Predictions with Domain Knowledge
Authors: Peters, Joeri; Bex, Floris; Prakken, Henry
You Take the High Road, and I’ll Take the Low Road – Large Language Models, Logical English, and the Highway Code
Authors: Dal Pont, Thiago; Sartor, Galileo; Wyner, Adam; Sartor, Giovanni
Reporting Requests Modelling in European Legislation with a Hybrid AI Approach
Authors: Corazza, Michele; Palmirani, Monica; Sapienza, Salvatore; Longo, Generoso
AI for Statutory Simplification: A Comprehensive State Legal Corpus and Labor Benchmark
Authors: Hariri, Emaan; Ho, Daniel
Formal Results on Case-Base Consistency: A COMPAS Case Study
Authors: van Woerkom, Wijnand Koen
“Lost in EU Regulation? Don’t Worry, AI Found the Obligation” – Extracting and Representing Legal Obligations in the GDPR, the DSA, and the AI Act
Authors: Raulino Dal Pont, Thiago; Galli, Federico; Sartor, Galileo; Contissa, Giuseppe
Non-Herculean Data: A Philosophical Intervention in a Technical Debate about Judicial Opinions as Data Sources
Authors: Cox, Courtney M.
Learning from Computer Vision: The Effects of Loss Functions on Legal Text Classification with Class Imbalance
Authors: Wais, Niklas; Grabmair, Matthias
Short Papers
Technical AI Fairness Criteria Might Constitutionally Apply to U.S. Recidivism Risk Assessment Tools, but How and for Whom?
Authors: Nguyen, Tin Trung; Xu, Jiannan; Nguyen Le, Phuong-Anh; Lazar, Jonathan; Braman, Donald; Daumé, Hal; Jelveh, Zubin
Understanding Legal Reasoning With LLMs: A Systematic Study of Performance, Scale, and Memorization
Authors: Arvin, Chuck
Have your DAI in Court. The Role of Suggestive Algorithms in Judicial Decision-Making
Authors: Comoglio, Paolo
Exploring Metric Correlation for Legal Text Summarization
Authors: Zanatti, Martim; Ribeiro, Ricardo; Pinto, H.Sofia
Probabilistic Analysis of Copyright Disputes and Generative AI Safety
Authors: Chiba-Okabe, Hiroaki
Multi – agent Cooperative Mechanisms for Legal Adjudication: The Crucial Role of Automatic Prompt Optimization
Authors: Ma, JiaYu; Wang, Shengran; Liu, Yun
Improved Understanding of Legal Text with Graph Attention Networks
Authors: Shin, Andrew; Kaneko, Kunitake
Is Selective Masking A Key to Improving Domain Adaptation for Masked Language Model?
Authors: Belfathi, Anas; Gallina, Ygor; Hernandez, Nicolas; Monceaux, Laura; Dufour, Richard
Optimizing Prompts for Legal Document Classification
Authors: de Vasconcelos SIlveira, Francisca Raquel; López Matias, João Víctor; Ponte Silva, Caio César; Donza Corrêa, Isadora; Ferreira da Costa, André Câmara; Furtado, Vasco
What Is the Law? A System for Statutory Research (STARA) with Large Language Models
Authors: Surani, Faiz; Gailmard, Lindsey A.; Casasola, Allison; Magesh, Varun; Robitschek, Emily J.; Ho, Daniel E.
Are manual annotations necessary for statutory interpretations retrieval?
Authors: Smywiński-Pohl, Aleksander; Libal, Tomer; Kaczmarczyk, Adam; Król, Magdalena
OSIRIS: A Domain-Guided Framework for Tax Foreclosure Automation Using Large Language Models
Authors: Braz, Fabricio Ataides; da Silva, Nilton Correia; de Siqueira, Eduardo Camargo; Nishi, Luciana; Bonat, Débora; Bertoncini, Cristina; Melo, Izabela Frota
Automatic Legal Writing Evaluation of LLMs
Authors: Pires, Ramon; Malaquias Junior, Roseval; Nogueira, Rodrigo
Summarisation of German Judgments in conjunction with a Class-based Evaluation
Authors: Steffes, Bianca; Wiedemann, Nils Torben; Gratz, Alexander; Hochreither, Pamela; Meyer, Jana Elina; Schilke, Katharina Luise
Parameterized Argumentation-based Reasoning Tasks for Benchmarking Generative Language Models
Authors: Steging, Cor; Renooij, Silja; Verheij, Bart
Faithfulness and Content Selection in Long-Input Multi-Document Summarisation of U.S. Civil Rights Litigation
Authors: Sebire, Isabel; Barale, Claire; Lapata, Mirella
Rule-based Classifier Models
Authors: Di Florio, Cecilia; Dong, Huimin; Rotolo, Antonino
LLMs Provide Unstable Answers to Legal Questions
Authors: Blair-Stanek, Andrew; Van Durme, Benjamin
Human-Machine Legal Preference Benchmarking: An Experimental Pilot Evaluating the Comparative Performance of LLM Models, Enterprise Tools, and Humans on Legal Tasks
Authors: Ranjan, Riya; Ma, Megan
Deep Interaction Timing: FOL-based Complexity Differentiation for Legal Queries
Authors: Zhang, Tong; Wu, Yiquan; Yao, Rujing; Zhang, Qianyu; Sun, Changlong; Wang, Chenghao; Liu, Xiaozhong
Judicial Permission
Authors: Governatori, Guido; Rotolo, Antonino
Graph-Based Categorization of Court Decisions by Legal Domain
Authors: Varga, Dávid; Szoplák, Zoltán; Horvát, Šimon; Gurský, Peter; Krajči, Stanislav
Cross-Border Legal Adaptation of Autonomous Vehicle Design based on Logic and Non-monotonic Reasoning
Authors: Yu, Zhe; Lu, Yiwei; Schafer, Burkhard; Lin, Zhe
Finding the Goldilocks Zone: Retrieving Citation Context
Authors: Mumford, Jack; Bareham, David; Atkinson, Katie; Marshall, Jeremy
EVENS: Equality versus Equity Notion Spectrum of LLMs
Authors: Chen, Qingjing; Cheng, Rongxin; Xie Zi Heng; Liu, Yan; Zhao, Kangxin; Li, Peiming; Shen, Weixing; Liu, Yun; Rotolo, Antonino