Tomáš Koref

Joint PhD Candidate in Legal Theory at Faculties of Law at Charles University and Goethe University Frankfurt

Project Associate, Center for Critical Computational Studies (C3S), Goethe University Frankfurt

Guest Researcher at Trustworthy Human Language Technologies (TrustHLT), Faculty of Computer Science, Ruhr University Bochum

About my research

My research bridges legal theory, AI&Law and empirical legal studies to better understand how courts apply the law in practice. I employ methods such as content analysis and argument mining, focusing on two core areas: formalism and correctness.

First, I examine decisions from Supreme Courts in Central Europe to assess whether their decisions and prevailing interpretative theories can be considered formalistic.

Second, I analyse appellate court decisions alongside legal dogmatics to explore when and why lower court rulings are overturned, aiming to clarify the boundary between correct and incorrect application of law.

Updates

The recording of my presentation for the Czech judiciary on our legal argument mining project is available in Czech here (5:06:58).

Recent workshop on argument mining and empirical legal research I co-organized at ICAIL in Chicago can be found here.

Get in touch with me at koref@c3s.uni-frankfurt.de

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