Computational Law Lab
A warm welcome to the Computational Law Lab led by Kristof Meding. The lab is part of the CZS Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Law, and the Cluster of Excellence “Machine Learning for Science” at the University of Tübingen. Additionally, we are part of the International Max Planck Research School for Intelligent Systems.
We aim to explore how machine learning methods and legal science interact. Key regulations, such as the GDPR and the EU AI Act, mandate fairness and transparency in data processing. However, how do we achieve these standards amidst the technical and mathematical challenges we face? Furthermore, we are interested in developing Natural Language Processing applications for legal questions and going beyond merely developing applications by investigating how data-driven methods can lead to new causal insights in legal sciences.
Interested in our work? Please feel free to drop us a line.
News
| Sep 26, 2025 | Our recent benchmarking paper was accepted at NeurIPS 2025 as a poster presentation, and our paper on the AI Act’s research assumptions was accepted at the RegML@NeurIPS2025 workshop. |
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| Sep 22, 2025 | Kristof started his three-month research stay as a Visiting Assistant Professor at TU Eindhoven. |
| Aug 11, 2025 | We welcome Tharushi Abeynayaka to the Computational Law Lab for her Bachelor’s lab project on automated bias detection in large datasets. |
| Aug 04, 2025 | Interested in a PhD position on large-scale (legal) dataset annotation in our group? See here for more information. |
| Jul 01, 2025 | We received new funding for the Horizon Europe-funded project ELLIOT! With 30 partners from 12 countries and a €25 million budget, ELLIOT aims to boost Europe’s leadership in open and compliant AI. |
| Jun 18, 2025 | Piotr Ratas has begun his Bachelor’s thesis in our lab on multilingual large language model-based summarization of CJEU decisions, jointly supervised by Christoph Sorge and Kristof Meding. |
| Jun 04, 2025 | We published a paper together with Alina Wernick on the AI Act’s research exceptions. |
| May 23, 2025 | Mara gave a workshop at the University of Stuttgart’s School for Talents! The workshop combined an introduction to LLMs with some hands-on experience to give the audience a more realistic understanding of today’s LLMs strengths and weaknesses. |
| Apr 09, 2025 |
We are offering a PhD position in our lab! |
| Mar 26, 2025 | Mara gave a talk about uncertainty and robustness against persuasion in large language models at the IRIS Colloquium of the University Stuttgart. |
| Mar 25, 2025 | Our paper, “What constitutes a Deep Fake? The blurry line between legitimate processing and manipulation under the EU AI Act”, co-authored with Christoph Sorge, appeared in the CS&Law 2025 proceedings. |
| Mar 06, 2025 | Our research paper at the intersection of law and machine learning, “Machine Learners Should Acknowledge the Legal Implications of Large Language Models as Personal Data”, co-authored with Henrik Nolte and Michèle Finck, has been accepted at the Workshop on the Future of Machine Learning Data Practices and Repositories during ICLR 2025. |
| Jan 20, 2025 | The first PhD student in our lab has started. A warm welcome to Mara! |
| Dec 03, 2024 | Our collaborative research paper, “What constitutes a Deep Fake? The blurry line between legitimate processing and manipulation under the EU AI Act” co-authored with Christoph Sorge, has been accepted for presentation at the CLAIRvoyant workshop during JURIX 2024. |
| Nov 24, 2024 | Kristof gave a talk about digital analysis of (historic) legal documents at the legal scientific colloquium “The Consilia of the Faculty of Law at the University of Tübingen from an Interdisciplinary Perspective”. |
| Nov 19, 2024 | Kristof has been invited to participate as an expert on data protection law and AI in a World Café workshop organized by the Center for Rhetorical Science Communication Research on Artificial Intelligence, which is part of the Citizens’ Council “AI and Freedom”. |
| Sep 24, 2024 | The EU Commission and the European AI Office accepted Kristof Meding to participate in the Code of Practice Plenary. The plenary will draw-up the first General-Purpose AI Code of Practice in relation to the EU AI Act. |
| Jul 30, 2024 | The AI Act guide has now been published. A big thank you to Rolf Schwartmann, Tobias Keber and Kai Zenner for having us on board. An English version will be available soon. |
