Publications

AI for Access to Justice—An Important Opportunity

Hannes Westermann

ECA Journal

Analyzing European Court of Human Rights Treatment of Non-ECHR Sources of Legal Authority

Michal Araszkiewicz, Jaromir Savelka, Hannes Westermann, Grzegorz J. Nalepa, Karolina Mania, Tadeusz Zbiegień

Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law

Applications of Generative AI for Access to Justice

Hannes Westermann, Marco Giacalone

Equalizing Justice: Harnessing AI for Litigants Without Lawyers

Document Automation

L. Karl Branting, Mia Bonardi, Hannes Westermann

Equalizing Justice: Harnessing AI for Litigants Without Lawyers

Integrating AI in Mediation

Hannes Westermann

The Cambridge Handbook of AI in Civil Dispute Resolution

Introduction to Generative AI

Hannes Westermann, Marco Giacalone

Equalizing Justice: Harnessing AI for Litigants Without Lawyers

A Demonstration of a Semi-Structured Legal Reasoning Framework

Hannes Westermann

Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law

A Hohfeldian Knowledge Base for LLM-Assisted Legal Information Retrieval in Marine Biodiversity Law

Rohan Nanda, Henrique Marcos, Hannes Westermann, Julia Schutz Veiga

Legal Knowledge and Information Systems

A Path Toward Legal Autonomy: An Interoperable and Explainable Approach to Extracting, Transforming, Loading, and Computing Legal Information Using Large Language Models, Expert Systems, and Bayesian Networks

Axel Constant, Hannes Westermann, Bryan Wilson, Alex Kiefer, Inês Hipólito, Sylvain Pronovost, Steven Swanson, Mahault Albarracin, Maxwell J.D. Ramstead

MIT Computational Law Report

Automated Mapping of Legal Criteria to the Texts of Adjudicatory Decisions Using LLMs

Hannes Westermann, Vern R. Walker, Jaromir Savelka

Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law

Can LLMs Create Legally Relevant Summaries and Analyses of Videos?

Lyra Hoeben-Kuil, Gijs van Dijck, Jaromir Savelka, Johanna Gunawan, Konrad Kollnig, Marta Kołacz, Mindy Duffourc, Shashank M. Chakravarthy, Hannes Westermann

JURIX 2025

In With the Old: Enhancing ‘Classical’ Document Automation with Generative AI

Marc Lauritsen, Hannes Westermann

AI for Access to Justice Workshop at ICAIL 2025

Lessons from Applying Traditional and Generative Artificial Intelligence to Increase Access to Justice

Hannes Westermann

L’accès aux décisions de justice à l’ère du numérique: Perspectives luxembourgeoise, européenne et comparée

AI in Healthcare: Navigating Legal Risk Assessment with JusticeBot

Sébastien Meeùs, Valentina Dalla Giovanna, Samyar Janatian, Hannes Westermann, Karim Benyekhlef, Grégory Lewkowicz

Legal Knowledge and Information Systems

Analyzing Images of Legal Documents: Toward Multi-Modal LLMs for Access to Justice

Hannes Westermann, Jaromir Savelka

AI for Access to Justice Workshop at JURIX 2024

Dallma: Semi-Structured Legal Reasoning and Drafting with Large Language Models

Hannes Westermann

2nd Workshop on Generative AI and Law

Getting in the Door: Streamlining Intake in Civil Legal Services with Large Language Models

Quinten Steenhuis, Hannes Westermann

Legal Knowledge and Information Systems

Robots in the Middle: Evaluating LLMs in Dispute Resolution

Jinzhe Tan, Hannes Westermann, Nikhil Reddy Pottanigari, Jaromír Šavelka, Sébastien Meeùs, Mia Godet, Karim Benyekhlef

Legal Knowledge and Information Systems

Bridging the Gap: Mapping Layperson Narratives to Legal Issues with Language Models

Hannes Westermann, Sébastien Meeùs, Mia Godet, Aurore Troussel, Jinzhe Tan, Jaromir Savelka, Karim Benyekhlef

ASAIL 2023

Can GPT-4 Support Analysis of Textual Data in Tasks Requiring Highly Specialized Domain Expertise?

Jaromir Savelka, Kevin D. Ashley, Morgan A. Gray, Hannes Westermann, Huihui Xu

ASAIL 2023

ChatGPT as an Artificial Lawyer?

Jinzhe Tan, Hannes Westermann, Karim Benyekhlef

AI for Access to Justice 2023

End-to-End Legal Prediction: An AI-Complete Problem?

Karim Benyekhlef, Hannes Westermann

Artificial intelligence law: Between sectoral rules and comprehensive regime comparative law

Explaining Legal Concepts with Augmented Large Language Models (GPT-4)

Jaromir Savelka, Kevin D. Ashley, Morgan A. Gray, Hannes Westermann, Huihui Xu

AI4Legs 2023

From Text to Structure: Using Large Language Models to Support the Development of Legal Expert Systems

Samyar Janatian, Hannes Westermann, Jinzhe Tan, Jaromir Savelka, Karim Benyekhlef

JURIX 2023

Best Paper Award

JusticeBot: A Methodology for Building Augmented Intelligence Tools for Laypeople to Increase Access to Justice

Hannes Westermann, Karim Benyekhlef

Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law

LLMediator: GPT-4 Assisted Online Dispute Resolution

Hannes Westermann, Jaromir Savelka, Karim Benyekhlef

AI for Access to Justice 2023

Using Artificial Intelligence to Increase Access to Justice

Hannes Westermann

Université de Montréal

Using Large Language Models to Support Thematic Analysis in Empirical Legal Studies

Jakub Drapal, Hannes Westermann, Jaromir Savelka

Legal Knowledge and Information Systems

An Epistemology of Artificial Intelligence

Justin-Eric Boileau, Ilona Bois-Drivet, Hannes Westermann, Jie Zhu

Cyberjustice Laboratory

Conditional Abstractive Summarization of Court Decisions for Laymen and Insights from Human Evaluation

Olivier Salaün, Aurore Troussel, Sylvain Longhais, Hannes Westermann, Philippe Langlais, Karim Benyekhlef

Legal Knowledge and Information Systems

Data-Centric Machine Learning in the Legal Domain

Hannes Westermann, Jaromir Savelka, Vern R. Walker, Kevin D. Ashley, Karim Benyekhlef

arXiv

The Phi Angle: A Theoretical Essay on Sense of Presence, Human Factors and Performance in Virtual Reality

Arthur Maneuvrier, Hannes Westermann

PRESENCE: Virtual and Augmented Reality

Toward an Intelligent Tutoring System for Argument Mining in Legal Texts

Hannes Westermann, Jaromir Savelka, Vern R. Walker, Kevin D. Ashley, Karim Benyekhlef

Legal Knowledge and Information Systems

Automating Reasoning with Previous Judicial Decisions

Hannes Westermann

AI and Law: A Critical Overview

Data-Centric Machine Learning: Improving Model Performance and Understanding Through Dataset Analysis

Hannes Westermann, Jaromir Savelka, Vern R. Walker, Kevin D. Ashley, Karim Benyekhlef

Legal Knowledge and Information Systems

Lex Rosetta: Transfer of Predictive Models across Languages, Jurisdictions, and Legal Domains

Jaromir Savelka, Hannes Westermann, Karim Benyekhlef, Charlotte S. Alexander, Jayla C. Grant, David Restrepo Amariles, Rajaa El Hamdani

Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law

Paragraph Similarity Scoring and Fine-Tuned BERT for Legal Information Retrieval and Entailment

Hannes Westermann, Jaromir Savelka, Karim Benyekhlef

New Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence

Winner, COLIEE 2020 Task 1

An Interactive Guide to the Blockchain, Part I–V

Hannes Westermann

Cyberjustice Laboratory

Analysis and Multilabel Classification of Quebec Court Decisions in the Domain of Housing Law

Olivier Salaün, Philippe Langlais, Andrés Lou, Hannes Westermann, Karim Benyekhlef

Natural Language Processing and Information Systems

Cross-Domain Generalization and Knowledge Transfer in Transformers Trained on Legal Data

Jaromir Savelka, Hannes Westermann, Karim Benyekhlef

ASAIL 2020

Evidence-Based Sentencing: Risks and Opportunities

Hannes Westermann

Lex Electronica

Sentence Embeddings and High-Speed Similarity Search for Fast Computer Assisted Annotation of Legal Documents

Hannes Westermann, Jaromir Savelka, Vern R. Walker, Kevin D. Ashley, Karim Benyekhlef

Legal Knowledge and Information Systems

Best Paper Award

Computer-Assisted Creation of Boolean Search Rules for Text Classification in the Legal Domain

Hannes Westermann, Jaromir Savelka, Vern R. Walker, Kevin D. Ashley, Karim Benyekhlef

Legal Knowledge and Information Systems

Best Student Paper Award

Using Factors to Predict and Analyze Landlord-Tenant Decisions to Increase Access to Justice

Hannes Westermann, Vern R. Walker, Kevin D. Ashley, Karim Benyekhlef

Proceedings of the Seventeenth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law

Artificial Intelligence in the Context of Crime and Criminal Justice

Benoit Dupont, Yuan Stevens, Hannes Westermann, Michael Joyce

Canada Research Chair in Cybersecurity, ICCC, Université de Montréal

Change of Purpose: The Effects of the Purpose Limitation Principle in the General Data Protection Regulation on Big Data Profiling

Hannes Westermann

Lund University