AI RESEARCH
Beyond Case Law: Evaluating Structure-Aware Retrieval and Safety in Statute-Centric Legal QA
arXiv CS.AI
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ArXi:2604.06173v1 Announce Type: cross Legal QA benchmarks have predominantly focused on case law, overlooking the unique challenges of statute-centric regulatory reasoning. In statutory domains, relevant evidence is distributed across hierarchically linked documents, creating a statutory retrieval gap where conventional retrievers fail and models often hallucinate under incomplete context. We