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Natural Language Processing in the Legal Domain
Dirk Hartung, Daniel Martin Katz, Michael J. Bommarito +3
We summarize the current state of the field of NLP & Law with a specific focus on recent technical and substantive developments. To support our analysis, we construct and analyze a…
Sharing and Caring: Creating a Culture of Constructive Criticism in Computational Legal Studies
Corinna Coupette, Dirk Hartung
We introduce seven foundational principles for creating a culture of constructive criticism in computational legal studies. Beginning by challenging the current perception of paper…
Law Smells: Defining and Detecting Problematic Patterns in Legal Drafting
Corinna Coupette, Dirk Hartung, Janis Beckedorf +2
Building on the computer science concept of code smells, we initiate the study of law smells, i.e., patterns in legal texts that pose threats to the comprehensibility and maintaina…
LexGLUE: A Benchmark Dataset for Legal Language Understanding in English
Ilias Chalkidis, Abhik Jana, Dirk Hartung +4
Laws and their interpretations, legal arguments and agreements\ are typically expressed in writing, leading to the production of vast corpora of legal text. Their analysis, which i…
Measuring Law Over Time: A Network Analytical Framework with an Application to Statutes and Regulations in the United States and Germany
Corinna Coupette, Janis Beckedorf, Dirk Hartung +2
How do complex social systems evolve in the modern world? This question lies at the heart of social physics, and network analysis has proven critical in providing answers to it. In…
Complex Societies and the Growth of the Law
Daniel Martin Katz, Corinna Coupette, Janis Beckedorf +1
While a large number of informal factors influence how people interact, modern societies rely upon law as a primary mechanism to formally control human behaviour. How legal rules i…