Toward Human Rights Benchmarking for LLMs: A Pilot Methodology
Large language models (LLMs) increasingly mediate legal determinations over what human rights are realized, and how. Yet, no evaluation benchmark exists to assess whether they can reason correctly about human rights law. To this end, we report our efforts to develop a robust and scalable methodology for creating HumRightsBench: the first expert-validated, scenario-based benchmark for evaluating reasoning grounded in the obligation structure of international human rights law. We adapt the IRAC framework for legal reasoning to better suit the unique reasoning patterns of human rights work (substituting P, "proposing remedies," for C, "legal conclusion," yielding IRAP) to structure our evalu...
| Authors | Savannah Thais, Wm. Matthew Kennedy, Abhigyan Acherjee et al. |
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| Primary category | cs.LG |
| Published | 10 August 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 10 August 2026 |
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