And longer substack post: open.substack.com/pub/trialser...

Peter Henderson@peterhenderson.bsky.social · 3w ago

🚀Last week we announced the launch of a new AI tool in partnership with the New Jersey Office of the Public Defender! AI can empower civil servants and improve public services, and this project provides a blueprint for doing so responsibly. 👇Lots of takeaways, below!

🚀Last week we announced the launch of a new AI tool in partnership with the New Jersey Office of the Public Defender! AI can empower civil servants and improve public services, and this project provides a blueprint for doing so responsibly. 👇Lots of takeaways, below!

Dominik Stammbach@dominsta.bsky.social · 4w ago

How can AI support public defense? We have worked on this question for the last two years, and have (1) built an AI retrieval tool for the NJ Office of the Public Defender and (2) conducted qualitative interviews with defenders. Our main insights 👇(1/12)

AI-fabricated case citations continue to show up in courts, but can AI also automatically flag hallucinated legal citations to reduce the verification burden? In our new paper (accepted at COLM 2026), we built a benchmark and evaluated several agentic models to find out (1/7)

How can AI support public defense? We have worked on this question for the last two years, and have (1) built an AI retrieval tool for the NJ Office of the Public Defender and (2) conducted qualitative interviews with defenders. Our main insights 👇(1/12)

The future of oral argument or trial prep will obviously involve AI. But how can we measure quality of simulations? We build out an eval suite and run some studies! Sycophancy & issue coverage are clear areas of improvement, but models are surprisingly useful! 👇👇

skyien-z.bsky.social@skyien-z.bsky.social · last mo.

@nealkatyal.bsky.social says he practiced for Supreme Court oral arguments using #HarveyAI. But does AI as an oral argument simulator live up to the hype? In a new paper, we present the first comprehensive framework for evaluating AI as a practice partner for oral argument preparation.

@skyien-z.bsky.social and @nimranadeem.bsky.social evaluated LLMs for oral argument preparation -- before the hype around Katyal's TED Talk and Harvey's AI system. Findings are more nuanced: while some generations are great, there's sycophancy, limited diversity, and barely any hypotheticals

skyien-z.bsky.social@skyien-z.bsky.social · last mo.

@nealkatyal.bsky.social says he practiced for Supreme Court oral arguments using #HarveyAI. But does AI as an oral argument simulator live up to the hype? In a new paper, we present the first comprehensive framework for evaluating AI as a practice partner for oral argument preparation.

📢 I'm organizing two venues for papers at the intersection of NLP/AI and climate with deadlines approaching - A special issue in Climatic Change: “NLP and AI as Climate Solutions" (deadline June 30th), t.co/JYY3dUogVn - The 3rd ClimateNLP Workshop at EMNLP 2026 (deadline July 15th), details 👇

@climate-nlp.bsky.social · last mo.

This is the Final Call for Papers for the 3rd ClimateNLP Workshop at EMNLP 2026 📢📢 🗓️ Submission Deadline: July 15 (AOE) - Workshop date: October 28th or 29th We invite short and long papers at the intersection of climate change and NLP 🌍 Details in the link 👇

Excited to announce the fourth Climate Change AI Summer School (virtual, July 19–August 22, 2026)! 🎉 Are you an #AI or #DataScience expert who wants to tackle #ClimateChange? Are you a #climate expert trying to use #ML in your work? Register here 👉 www.climatechange.ai/events/summe...

Really exciting work led by Patty Liu on LLM-generated hallucinated legal citations! We also put out a more technical draft describing a dataset and methods for benchmarking legal citation verification princeton-polaris-lab.github.io/legal-halluc...

Princeton Center for Information Technology Policy @princetoncitp.bsky.social · 2mo ago

❓Can AI reduce burdens on courts by automatically verifying citations? Now on the CITP Blog, researchers Patty Liu, @dominsta.bsky.social, and Prof @peterhenderson.bsky.social investigate LLM-hallucinated legal citations in court documents 🔻 blog.citp.princeton.edu/2026/05/27/c...

Update: semantic search is now live across all of CourtListener, not just the API 🚀 You can search case law in natural language directly on CourtListener! free.law/2026/05/04/s...

Semantic Search Is Now on CourtListener

Search case law using natural language, right from CourtListener. Semantic search is now live on the website!

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Peter Henderson@peterhenderson.bsky.social · 9mo ago

We’ve been pushing hard on AI for public good. One example: partnering with Courtlistener to launch accessible legal semantic search! Many more cool AI projects coming soon from my group aimed at improving access to justice, often spearheaded by @dominsta.bsky.social !

📢📢 Second Call for Papers for the 3rd ClimateNLP Workshop at EMNLP 2026 📢📢 🗓️ Updated Submission Deadline: July 15 (AOE) 🚀 We invite short and long papers at the intersection of climate change and NLP 🌍 🔗 Details in the original call

@climate-nlp.bsky.social · 5mo ago

📢📢 Call for Papers is out for the Third ClimateNLP Workshop at EMNLP 2026 📢📢 🚀 We invite short and long papers at the intersection of climate change and NLP 🌍 🗓️ Submission Deadline (preliminary): May 10th, 2026 more info: nlp4climate.github.io/callforpapers/

🚨 Call for Papers: AI for Law Workshop @icmlconf.bsky.social (July 10, Seoul 🇰🇷), welcomes submissions across three themes: ⚖️ AI for Legal Reasoning 📊 AI Evaluation for Law 🌍 AI for Access to Justice 📄 Full papers (≤8 pages) ⏰ Deadline: May 22 (AoE) 📄Submission via: openreview.net/group?id=ICM...

I’m organizing two tracks for papers at the intersection of NLP/AI and climate: (1) A special issue in Climatic Change: “NLP and AI as Climate Solutions: Opportunities and Challenges” (2) The 3rd ClimateNLP Workshop at EMNLP 2026 Consider submitting if you have relevant work!

@climate-nlp.bsky.social · 5mo ago

📢📢 Call for Papers is out for the Third ClimateNLP Workshop at EMNLP 2026 📢📢 🚀 We invite short and long papers at the intersection of climate change and NLP 🌍 🗓️ Submission Deadline (preliminary): May 10th, 2026 more info: nlp4climate.github.io/callforpapers/

📣 Call for Contributions: LEXam-v2 – A Benchmark for Legal Reasoning in AI How well do today’s AI systems really reason about law? We’re building a global benchmark based on real law school & bar exams. 🧵 Full details, scope, and how to contribute in the thread 👇

🚨🌍 We are organizing a Special Issue with the Climatic Change journal! Scope: NLP and AI as Climate Solutions: Opportunities and Challenges More details: link.springer.com/collections/...

We’ve been pushing hard on AI for public good. One example: partnering with Courtlistener to launch accessible legal semantic search! Many more cool AI projects coming soon from my group aimed at improving access to justice, often spearheaded by @dominsta.bsky.social !

📣 New Preprint! Have you ever wondered what the political content in LLM's training data is? What are the political opinions expressed? What is the proportion of left- vs right-leaning documents in the pre- and post-training data? Do they correlate with the political biases reflected in models?

📢 Exciting News: Announcing our fantastic line up of keynote speakers for ClimateNLP 2025! 🎙 @naomioreskes.bsky.social , Harvard University 🌱 @klimatfrida.bsky.social , Klimatkollen 📊 Emily Kormanyos, Deutsche Bundesbank 🌿 Ruth Schmidt, GIZ

“In the U.S., unfortunately, most people cannot afford a lawyer. What I'm currently working on is legal natural language processing + #NLP tech, which would increase access to justice.” A new Meet the Researcher w/ @dominsta.bsky.social is up ➡️ #CITP Blog: blog.citp.princeton.edu/2025/04/16/m...

Meet the Researcher: Dominik Stammbach - CITP Blog

Dominik Stammbach is a postdoctoral researcher at the Princeton Center for Information Technology Policy. Stammbach completed his PhD at ETH Zürich in Switzerland and is now a part of Professor Peter ...

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🚨 We're looking for a few emergency reviewers! If you have time to review 1 paper in the next 1-3 days, please reach out via email!

🚨 We're interviewing public defenders about AI in their work. Know any? Point them our way! 🙌

Princeton Center for Information Technology Policy @princetoncitp.bsky.social · last yr.

From @peterhenderson.bsky.social's POLARIS Lab: 🚨Public Defenders - We need your insights! We’re conducting a research study to explore how #AI can better serve you & your clients. Your experiences can shape the future of AI legal tools designed specifically for public defenders. Sign-up 🔗🔻

📌 Do you have a paper about climate change, submitted to ARR and got reviews, but don't know where to submit? Submit to the ClimateNLP workshop! 📖 More infos in thread

📢📢 Third and last Call for Papers for the 2nd ClimateNLP Workshop at ACL 2025 📢📢 🗓️ Submission Deadline: March 1st AOE 🚀 We invite short and long papers at the intersection of climate change and NLP 🌍 More info: nlp4climate.github.io

ClimateNLP 2025

The 2nd Workshop of Natural Language Processing meets Climate Change

nlp4climate.github.io

#TechTakes - Brand new CITP Blog post just dropped 👀 "It Wasn't Me: #DeepSeek denies they stole anything, but is their model still a cost revolution?" 📢 This is part of a new series called #TechTakes, where CITP researchers comment on tech news & tech policy. freedom-to-tinker.com/2025/02/07/i...

"It Wasn't Me": DeepSeek denies they stole anything, but is their model still a cost revolution?

DeepSeek R1 came out on January 20, 2025, and triggered strong reactions throughout the world. Nvidia stock dropped more than 17% in one day; in total

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📢📢 Second Call for Papers for the 2nd ClimateNLP Workshop at ACL 2025 📢📢 🗓️ Submission Deadline: March 1st AOE 🚀 We invite short and long papers at the intersection of climate change and NLP 🌍 More info: nlp4climate.github.io

ClimateNLP 2025

The 2nd Workshop of Natural Language Processing meets Climate Change

nlp4climate.github.io

📢📢 Call for Papers is out for the Second ClimateNLP Workshop at ACL 2025 📢📢 🚀 We invite short and long papers at the intersection of climate change and NLP 🌍 🗓️ Submission Deadline: March 1st AOE more info: nlp4climate.github.io/callforpapers/

ClimateNLP 2025

Call for Papers Scope This workshop series is dedicated to exploring the intersection of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and climate change. The workshop aims to discuss how NLP methods can be incor...

nlp4climate.github.io

📢 Excited to announce that we're going into the second iteration of ClimateNLP at #ACL2025 in Vienna! 🚀 We invite short and long papers at the intersection of climate change and NLP 🌍 Official call for papers later in December, submission deadline approx March. More info: nlp4climate.github.io

ClimateNLP 2025

The 2nd Workshop of Natural Language Processing meets Climate Change

nlp4climate.github.io

Excited to announce that we're running the Second NLP for Climate Workshop at #ACL2025! Follow along at @climate-nlp.bsky.social. We're keen to see submissions from NGOs and industry as well as academia: I'm personally *very* interested in research that considers closely its real-world application

Dominik @dominsta.bsky.social talks about how to evaluate topic models, particularly with LLMs. 📄🧾📑🗞️📰📜 Joint work with Alexander @alexanderhoyle.bsky.social, Mrinmaya Sachan, and Elliott @elliottash.bsky.social. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIDj...