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

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arXiv:2609.26945v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: 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 conception of interpretation as classification criteria. Second, we provide a dataset of decisions of the German Federal Constitutiona