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[Submitted on 22 Sep 2026] Title:Classifying Interpretive Canons at the Sentence Level: A Benchmark from the German Federal Constitutional Court View a PDF of the paper titled Classifying Interpretive Canons at the Sentence Level: A Benchmark from the German Federal Constitutional Court, by Felix Ringe View PDF HTML (experimental) 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 Constitutional Court annotated at the sentence level. Third, we report baseline evaluations of four LLMs from three model families under expert hand-written prompts, compared against prompts optimized with Genetic-Pareto (GEPA). Mean F1 over the seven binary subtasks clusters between 70.4 and 79.2 across models, with grammatical interpretation usually the easiest canon to identify and systematic interpretation usually the hardest; under the tested configuration, GEPA-optimized prompts do not systematically outperform the hand-written ones, suggesting that the expert prompts provide a meaningful baseline. Comments: accepted at the ICML 2026 AI4Law Workshop; 32 pages (main text 9 pages + appendices 23 pages) Subjects: Computation and Language (cs.CL); Computers and Society (cs.CY) Cite as: arXiv:2609.26945 [cs.CL] (or arXiv:2609.26945v1 [cs.CL] for this version) https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2609.26945 arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration) Submission history From: Felix Ringe [view email] [v1] Tue, 22 Sep 2026 18:34:17 UTC (66 KB) Full-text links: Access Paper: View a PDF of the paper titled Classifying Interpretive Canons at the Sentence Level: A Benchmark from the German Federal Constitutional Court, by Felix Ringe View PDF HTML (experimental) TeX Source view license Current browse context: cs.CL new | recent | 2026-09 Change to browse by: cs cs.CY References & Citations NASA ADS Google Scholar Semantic Scholar Loading... Data provided by: Bibliographic Tools Bibliographic and Citation Tools Bibliographic Explorer Toggle Bibliographic Explorer (What is the Explorer?) Connected Papers Toggle Connected Papers (What is Connected Papers?) Litmaps Toggle Litmaps (What is Litmaps?) scite.ai Toggle scite Smart Citations (What are Smart Citations?) Code, Data, Media Code, Data and Media Associated with this Article alphaXiv Toggle alphaXiv (What is alphaXiv?) Links to Code Toggle CatalyzeX Code Finder for Papers (What is CatalyzeX?) DagsHub Toggle DagsHub (What is DagsHub?) GotitPub Toggle Gotit.pub (What is GotitPub?) Huggingface Toggle Hugging Face (What is Huggingface?) ScienceCast Toggle ScienceCast (What is ScienceCast?) Demos Demos Replicate Toggle Replicate (What is Replicate?) Spaces Toggle Hugging Face Spaces (What is Spaces?) Spaces Toggle TXYZ.AI (What is TXYZ.AI?) Related Papers Recommenders and Search Tools Link to Influence Flower Influence Flower (What are Influence Flowers?) Core recommender toggle CORE Recommender (What is CORE?) Author Venue Institution Topic About arXivLabs arXivLabs: experimental projects with community collaborators arXivLabs is a framework that allows collaborators to develop and share new arXiv features directly on our website. Both individuals and organizations that work with arXivLabs have embraced and accepted our values of openness, community, excellence, and user data privacy. arXiv is committed to these values and only works with partners that adhere to them. Have an idea for a project that will add value for arXiv's community? Learn more about arXivLabs. Which authors of this paper are endorsers? | Disable MathJax (What is MathJax?)