Publications, Presentations and Research Projects
Publications, Presentations and Research Projects
9) Article - Judicial Backgrounds and Legal Reasoning (joint; 1st author)
Article on links between judicial careers and reasoning, in progress
8) Proceedings - Proceedings of the First Argument Mining and Empirical Legal Research Workshop co-located with the 20th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law, Chicago (co-editor and co-author of preface)
Proceedings from AMELR workshop I co-organized in June 2025 in Chicago
7) Article - Mining Legal Arguments to Study Judicial Formalism (joint; 1st author)
Article on LLM-based argument mining to detect judicial formalism in Czech Supreme-courts decisions, in peer review in Artificial Intelligence & Law
6) Article - Legal Experts Disagree with Rationale Extraction Techniques for Explaining ECHR Case Outcome Classification (joint; co-author)
Article on XAI in legal domain using legal expert evaluation to assess explainability, in progress
5) Monograph - Empirical Study of Legal Reasoning in Central Europe
Monograph on formalism and legal reasoning of Czech Supreme Courts, accepted for publication (submitted, planned for 2025)
4) Article - A Tale of Two Supreme Courts and Communist Legacies: Analysis of Hard Cases
Article on statutory interpretation of Czech Supreme Courts in hard cases using content analysis, in progress
3) Review essay - Defragmentation of (Private) Law Through Proportionality Test
Review Essay, Ratio Publica, 2024
2) Chapter - Pitfalls of Three-Component Norm
Chapter on a logical structure of legal norm in Zak Krzyzankova K. (eds.), The Reflection of Socio-Technological Development in Contemporary Law, Auditorium, 2024, in Czech
1) Article - Proportionality Test As an Instrument of Justification, Not Discovery
Article published by Právník Jornal, 2023, in Czech
Managing an international & interdisciplinary scholarly project on legal argument mining in court decisions in Central and Eastern Europe.
We analyse formalism with regards to traditional interpretative theory (looking at, e.g. linguistic, systemic, teleological interpretation) and relate state of the art NLP research to classical jurisprudential debates.
Supervised by Prof. Ivan Habernal (TrustHLT Group, Ruhr University Bochum) and Prof. Christoph Burchard (C3S, Goethe University).
Collaborating with
AI Team: Ivan Habernal, Lena Held, Mahammad Namazov and Research Assistants Yassine Thilja and Harun Kumru (TrustHLT - Ruhr University Bochum and Technical University Darmstadt)
Legal Team: Research Assistants Václav Lipš, Vítek Eichler, Matyáš Barták and Marek Švajda (Charles University)
II.) CorAL - Correct Application of Law
I am focusing on the boundary between correct and incorrect judicial decisions.
Developing a theoretical framework for incorrect legal assessment + empirically determining a) most frequent types of incorrectness with b) most frequent arguments justifying the incorrectness.
Collaborating with Ivan Habernal and Research Assistants Václav Lipš, Vítek Eichler, Milada Matoušková, Matyáš Barták and Marek Švajda (Charles University)
1) A Tale of Two Supreme Courts, Progress and Communist Legacies
Event: The Future of Law and Economics (EDLE), International Seminar
Date & Location: April 11–12, 2024, Prague, Czech Republic
2) Proportionality Test in Private Law? Yes, but Not So Fast
Event: Current State and Upcoming Challenges of Legal Theory and Philosophy of Law, International Conference
Date & Location: May 3, 2024, Zagreb, Croatia
3) A Tale of Two Supreme Courts, Progress and Communist Legacies
Event: Czech-Croatian Colloquium in Legal Theory, International Seminar
Date & Location: May 24, 2024, Prague, Czech Republic
4) A Tale of Two Supreme Courts and Communist Legacies
Event: The 31st World Congress of the International Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy, International Conference
Date & Location: June 7–12, 2024, Seoul, South Korea
5) Defragmentation of (Private) Law Through Proportionality Test
Event: The 31st World Congress of the International Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy, International Conference
Date & Location: June 7–12, 2024, Seoul, South Korea
6) Mining Arguments to Debunk Old Narratives: Empirical Study of Czech Apex Courts' Reasoning
Event: CIRSFID Seminar
Date & Location: September 9, 2024, Bologna, Italy
7) Old Judges, New Visions: Empirical Study from Czechia of How Ordinary Courts Reason After Regime Transition
Event: ICON-S Conference (Re)Vision, International Conference
Date & Location: September 25–27, 2024, Mannheim, Germany
8) What Can Artificial Intelligence Reveal About the Decision-Making Practice of Czech Supreme Courts?
Event: Artificial Intelligence in Justice – Challenges and Disappointments, National Conference organized by the High Court in Prague
Date & Location: October 21, 2024, Prague, Czech Republic
9) A Tale of Two Supreme Courts, Formalism and Communist Legacies
Event: Graz Jurisprudence Privatissimum, International Seminar
Date & Location: November 5, 2024, Graz, Austria
10) Empirical Analysis of Legal Reasoning in Czechia
Event: Autumn PhD Workshop in Legal Theory, International Workshop
Date & Location: November 29, 2024, Brno, Czech Republic
11) When Courts Violate Law: An Introduction
Event: Graz Jurisprudence Workshop, International Seminar
Date & Location: December 10, 2024, Graz, Austria
12) When Courts Violate Law: An Introduction
Event: TrustHLT Research Group Seminar
Date & Location: February 27, 2025, Siegen, Germany
13) Empirical Analysis of Judicial Formalism in Central Europe Using NLP and Argument Mining
Event: ACM CS& Law Symposium
Date& Location: 25 March, 2025, Munich
14) Beyond Formalism and Communist Legacies?
Empirical Analysis of Judicial Reasoning in Czechia
Event: Research seminars in law, economics, and empirics (VSPEE), Department of Economics and Empirical Legal Studes, Faculty of Law, Charles University (Invited)
Date & Location: May 6, 2025, Prague, Czechia
15) Mining Legal Arguments to Study Judicial Formalism
Event: Computational Legal Studies Workshop
Date & Location: September 8, 2025, Singapore