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Legal Language and Interpretation

Last updated July 7, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
Ilias Chalkidis
Athens University of Economics and Business
2
Zhiwei Fei
Institute of Computing Technology
3
Leonardo Puleo
University College Dublin
4
Ondřej Glogar
Masaryk University
5
Tatiana Grieshofer
Birmingham City University
6
Philipp Sebastian Angermeyer
York University
7
Liriam Enamoto
Universidade de Brasília
8
Patrizia Giampieri
Università di Camerino
9
Matthew Saul
University of Oslo
10
Souvik Sengupta
Aliah University

Rising Stars Papers

1
LawBench: Benchmarking Legal Knowledge of Large Language Models
Unknown Journal|2024
63 cit.
2
Giorgia on their minds: Vote switching to Fratelli d’Italia in the Italian general election of 2022
Party Politics|2024
16 cit.
3
Another sleeping giant? Environmental issue preferences in the 2019 European Parliament elections
West European Politics|2024
11 cit.
4
AI-Powered Contracts: a Critical Analysis
International Journal for the Semiotics of Law - Revue internationale de Sémiotique juridique|2024
6 cit.
5
Meta-learning applied to a multivariate single-step fusion model for greenhouse gas emission forecasting in Brazil
Journal of Water and Climate Change|2024
6 cit.
6
Opposition and resistance: how judges and professional associations in Poland, Hungary, and Romania defend their independence
East European Politics|2024
5 cit.
7
A Diachronic Analysis of Latinisms in the Decisions of the UK Supreme Court
International Journal for the Semiotics of Law - Revue internationale de Sémiotique juridique|2024
4 cit.
8
Local authorities at the European Court of Human Rights
The International Journal of Human Rights|2024
3 cit.
9
Llama meets EU: Investigating the European political spectrum through the lens of LLMs
Unknown Journal|2024
3 cit.
10
Legislative Text Analysis from Judicial Case Reports Using Machine Learning
SN Computer Science|2024
2 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
Zehua Li
Pearl River Hydraulic Research Institute
2
Erik Uszkiewicz
Hungarian Astronomical Association
3
Pamela Pansardi
University of Pavia
4
Vivek Raghavan
Manipal Academy of Higher Education
5
Leona O' Brien
University College Cork
6
B. Pozzo
Unknown
7
Francesco Costamagna
University of Turin
8
Leonie Koessler
Institute on Governance
9
Iveta Kažoka
Centre for Policy Studies
10
Tim Feldmüller
Leibniz Institute for the German Language

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
Legalbench: A Collaboratively Built Benchmark for Measuring Legal Reasoning in Large Language Models
SSRN Electronic Journal|2023
135 cit.
2
SemEval-2023 Task 6: LegalEval - Understanding Legal Texts
Unknown Journal|2023
41 cit.
3
Do (strong) gender quotas make a difference? Multiple candidacies as a party gatekeeping strategy in Italy
Party Politics|2022
38 cit.
4
Named Entity Recognition in Indian court judgments
Unknown Journal|2022
35 cit.
5
Dimensions of constructional meanings in the German Constructicon: Why collo-profiles matter
Yearbook of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association|2023
27 cit.
6
Law and the production of precarious work in Europe: an introduction
European Law Open|2022
21 cit.
7
The law and facts of the preliminary reference procedure: a critical assessment of the EU Court of Justice’s source of knowledge
European Law Open|2023
19 cit.
8
Women Leading the Opposition: Gender and Rhetoric in the European Parliament
Politics and Governance|2023
6 cit.
9
Don't Use a Cannon to Kill a Fly
Unknown Journal|2023
2 cit.
10
What makes political parties to elect more women? a cross-country comparison
Journal of Legislative Studies|2024
1 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Established & currently active

Current Senior Leaders Researchers

1
William M. O’Barr
Duke University
2
Νικόλαος Αλέτρας
University of Sheffield
3
Josef van Genabith
Dublin City University
4
John W. Meyer
Stanford University
5
Daniel Katz
Chicago Kent College of Law
6
Paul Drew
University of York
7
Alberto Alemanno
European Union
8
Le Cheng
Zhejiang University
9
Barry R. Weingast
Stanford University
10
Miriam F. Williams
Texas State University

Current Senior Leaders Papers

1
Institutionalized Organizations: Formal Structure as Myth and Ceremony
American Journal of Sociology|1977
27.3k cit.
2
Constitutions and Commitment: The Evolution of Institutions Governing Public Choice in Seventeenth-Century England
The Journal of Economic History|1989
5.3k cit.
3
World Society and the Nation‐State
American Journal of Sociology|1997
4.7k cit.
4
Administrative Procedures as Instruments of Political Control
The Journal of Law Economics and Organization|1987
2.3k cit.
5
The Economic Role of Political Institutions: Market-Preserving Federalism and Economic Development
The Journal of Law Economics and Organization|1995
2.1k cit.
6
Institutional conditions for diffusion
Theory and Society|1993
2.1k cit.
7
THE ROLE OF INSTITUTIONS IN THE REVIVAL OF TRADE: THE LAW MERCHANT, PRIVATE JUDGES, AND THE CHAMPAGNE FAIRS
Economics and Politics|1990
1.8k cit.
8
The Political Foundations of Democracy and the Rule of the Law
American Political Science Review|1997
1.8k cit.
9
The Political Economy of Benefits and Costs: A Neoclassical Approach to Distributive Politics
Journal of Political Economy|1981
1.8k cit.
10
The Worldwide Expansion of Higher Education in the Twentieth Century
American Sociological Review|2005
1.6k cit.

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