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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.