Felix Ringe

Classifying Interpretive Canons at the Sentence Level: A Benchmark from the German Federal Constitutional Court

Judicial reasoning remains challenging for large language models (LLMs) to analyze. This paper contributes a sentence-level benchmark for evaluating the ability of LLMs to classify interpretive canons as articulated by Larenz in the tradition of Savigny. Our contributions are threefold. First, we operationalize this co...