How can AI use legal knowledge in ways that meet the demands of legal practice? This question is central to Legal Cognition. What matters is how models, legal sources and an organisation’s knowledge work together: How do agents receive the relevant context? How can professional requirements guide their work, and how can people trace and review their results? Our goal is infrastructure in which legal expertise determines how AI works – while people retain professional responsibility.
Evaluation
Administrative law put to the test
We are developing a benchmark that tests AI systems on realistic public authority case files – from case file analysis and drafting administrative decisions to preparing statements of defence. The focus is on legal quality, verifiable supporting evidence and the ability to recognise errors made by the authority itself.
Coming soon
Contract review and redlining
The planned benchmark examines how AI systems work on contract documents across multiple negotiation rounds. It evaluates legal quality, adherence to client instructions and the handling of the counterparty’s proposed changes – directly from the resulting Word documents with tracked changes and comments.
Coming soon
Publications
Regelbildung ohne Ursprungssubjekt. Künstliche Intelligenz und die Wissensordnung des Rechts
Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. Karl-Heinz Ladeur and Mansoor Koshan