| Oct 24, 2026 | Two papers from our group were accepted to EMNLP 2026! Sebastian Nagl presents “BenGER: Benchmarking LLM Systems on Subsumption-Based Legal Reasoning in German Law,” co-authored with Ann-Kristin Mayrhofer, Martin Heidebach, Aleyna Koçak, Anne Zettelmeier, Elly Breu, Angelina Greiner, Sofija Milijas, and Matthias Grabmair. Julius Vernie presents his work “By Their Fruits You Will Know Them: Comparing Formalizations of Law by the Decisions They Encode,” co-authored with Matthias Grabmair. |
| Feb 25, 2026 | Two papers accepted at the upcoming ACM CS&LAW Conference in Berkeley (March 2026): Niklas Wais, Max Prior, and Runsheng Chen will present “AppeaLLM: Mimicking a Closed-World Environment for Court Decision Prediction,” and Matthias Grabmair co-authored “Thinking Longer, Not Always Smarter: Evaluating LLM Capabilities in Hierarchical Legal Reasoning” with Li Zhang, Morgan Gray, and Kevin Ashley. |
| Feb 2, 2026 | Congratulations to Santosh Tokala on a successful Ph.D. defense! He has moved on to Amazon, where he works as an Applied Scientist. |
| Dec 19, 2025 | Shanshan Xu successfully defended her Ph.D. dissertation! She is continuing her research as a Postdoc with the NLP North group at the University of Copenhagen. |