AI RESEARCH

Mining Legal Arguments to Study Judicial Formalism

arXiv CS.CL

ArXi:2512.11374v2 Announce Type: replace Courts must justify their decisions, but systematically analyzing judicial reasoning at scale remains difficult. This study tests claims about formalistic judging in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) by developing automated methods to detect and classify judicial reasoning in decisions of Czech Supreme Courts using state-of-the-art natural language processing methods.