How Do LLMs Understand Legal Philosophy? Diagnosing Legal-Philosophical Reasoning in LLMs
Legal reasoning is a fundamental capability for large language models (LLMs) to complete legal AI tasks such as legal judgment prediction. In legal practice, this reasoning is shaped by legal philosophy: a judge's view of the nature and sources of law guides how legal materials are interpreted and applied, so judges working from the same statutes and precedents can reach different judgments. Existing research has largely overlooked whether LLMs can understand legal philosophy and apply it in legal reasoning, an ability we call \textit{legal-philosophical reasoning}. To fill this gap, we introduce LePhilBench, a benchmark for evaluating the legal-philosophical reasoning of LLMs that compri...
| Authors | Shuyuan Zheng, Yun-seo Lee, Xing Gao et al. |
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| Primary category | cs.CL |
| Published | 14 October 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 14 October 2026 |
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