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temporal applicable-law determination

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When Do LLMs Apply the Wrong Law? Diagnosing LLM Failures in Temporal Legal Reasoning

Researchers introduced a new benchmark to diagnose why large language models systematically misapply laws by defaulting to the most recently enacted statute instead of the temporally correct one, revealing an inverse relationship between general reasoning ability and temporal legal accuracy.

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arXiv Artificial Intelligence

Aug 18, 2026

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01 LLMs exhibit a strong bias toward applying the most recently enacted law, regardless of when the legally relevant facts occurred.

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