3 papers
cs.CL2026
Measuring & Mitigating Over-Alignment for LLMs in Multilingual Criminal Law Courts
Arthur Wuhrmann, Gaetan Stein, Daniel Brunner +1
While the wider applicability of LLMs in the legal field is currently debated due to their reliability and the gravity of any errors, narrow uses with well-understood and mitigated…
cs.CL2026
LEXam: Benchmarking Legal Reasoning on 340 Law Exams
Yu Fan, Jingwei Ni, Jakob Merane +14
Long-form legal reasoning remains a key challenge for large language models (LLMs) in spite of recent advances in test-time scaling. To address this, we introduce LEXam, a novel be…
cs.CL2025
SwiLTra-Bench: The Swiss Legal Translation Benchmark
Joel Niklaus, Jakob Merane, Luka Nenadic +16
In Switzerland legal translation is uniquely important due to the country's four official languages and requirements for multilingual legal documentation. However, this process tra…