Lecture: Mining Legal Arguments: Proportionality in German Constitutional Court Judgments, 14.11.2024, mpilhlt (Frankfurt) and online

We invite you to the lecture, organised as part of the seminar series ‘Legal History Meets Digital Humanities’ at the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory and held in a hybrid format on 14 November 2024 from 15:00 to 17:00.

This presentation held by Kilian Lüders (Humboldt University of Berlin) explores how digital humanities and natural language processing methods can be used to assess legal arguments, focusing on a case study of the proportionality test in the German Federal Constitutional Court decisions conducted by the LLCon research group. The project involved manually annotating court decisions and conducting descriptive analysis, while also applying machine learning to automate the recognition of proportionality tests in case law.

Registration and more details can be found here.