Eric Martínez

University of Chicago Law School

1111 E 60th St

Chicago, IL 60637

United States

Institute for Law & AI

  • University of Chicago Law School

  • Institute for Law & AI

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What Do Law Professors Believe about Law and the Legal Academy?

Georgetown Law Journal, Vol. 112, 111-189 (2023)
Number of pages: 79 Posted: 08 Aug 2022 Last Revised: 27 Jan 2024
Eric Martínez and Kevin Tobia
University of Chicago Law School and Georgetown University Law Center
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legal philosophy, legal theory, legal education, expertise

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Re-evaluating GPT-4's bar exam performance

Artificial Intelligence and Law (2024), LawAI Working Paper No. 1-2023
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 18 May 2023 Last Revised: 12 Sep 2024
Eric Martínez
University of Chicago Law School
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GPT, GPT-4, ChatGPT, Bar Exam, NLP, Legal NLP, Legal Analytics, natural language processing, natural language understanding, machine learning, artificial intelligence, artificial intelligence and law, Neural NLP, Legal Tech

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Legal Priorities Research: A Research Agenda

Legal Priorities Project Working Paper Series
Number of pages: 185 Posted: 28 Sep 2021
Christoph Winter, Jonas Schuett, Eric Martínez, Suzanne Van Arsdale, Renan Araujo, Nick Hollman, Jeff Sebo, Andrew Stawasz, Cullen O'Keefe and Giuliana Rotola
University of Cambridge - Faculty of Law, Centre for the Governance of AI, University of Chicago Law School, Institute for Law & AI, Institute for AI Policy and Strategy, Institute for Law & AI, New York University (NYU), Institute for Policy Integrity, NYU School of Law, Institute for Law & AI and European Southern Observatory
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future generations, longtermism, prioritization, artificial intelligence, biosecurity, institutional design, space law, animal law

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Even Lawyers Don't Like Legalese

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120 (23), e2302672120 (2023)
Number of pages: 7 Posted: 05 Jun 2023
Eric Martínez, Frank Mollica and Edward Gibson
University of Chicago Law School, University of Edinburgh and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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law, language, psycholinguistics, curse of knowledge, experimental jurisprudence

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Protecting Future Generations: A Global Survey of Legal Academics

LPP Working Paper No. 1-2021
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 28 Sep 2021 Last Revised: 08 Nov 2022
Eric Martínez and Christoph Winter
University of Chicago Law School and University of Cambridge - Faculty of Law
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global survey, future generations, longtermism, climate change, artificial intelligence, biosecurity

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Poor Writing, not Specialized Concepts, Drives Processing Difficulty in Legal Language

Cognition 2022, 224, 105070. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2022.105070
Number of pages: 7 Posted: 08 Mar 2022 Last Revised: 16 Mar 2022
Eric Martínez, Frank Mollica and Edward Gibson
University of Chicago Law School, University of Edinburgh and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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law and language, psycholinguistics, empirical legal studies, law and cognitive science, corpus analysis, computational linguistics

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So Much for Plain Language: An Analysis of the Accessibility of United States Federal Laws Over Time

Number of pages: 16 Posted: 19 Feb 2022 Last Revised: 23 Oct 2022
Eric Martínez, Frank Mollica and Edward Gibson
University of Chicago Law School, University of Edinburgh and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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law and language, psycholinguistics, empirical legal studies, law and cognitive science, corpus analysis

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Experimental Longtermist Jurisprudence

S. Magen & K. Prochownik (Eds.), Advances in Experimental Philosophy of Law (Forthcoming), LPP Working Paper No. 2-2021
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 01 Oct 2021 Last Revised: 08 Nov 2022
Eric Martínez and Christoph Winter
University of Chicago Law School and University of Cambridge - Faculty of Law
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Legal longtermism, Future generations, Levels of abstraction, Longtermist jurisprudence, Experimental jurisprudence

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Measuring Legal Concepts

Number of pages: 64 Posted: 01 Mar 2024
Eric Martínez
University of Chicago Law School
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empirical legal studies, legal education, experimental jurisprudence, law and psychology, law and cognitive science, natural language processing

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Protecting sentient artificial intelligence: a survey of lay intuitions on standing, personhood, and general legal protection

Frontiers in Robotics and AI: Ethics in Robotics and Artificial Intelligence, 8, 367. (2021)., LawAI Working Paper No. 3-2021
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 06 Oct 2021 Last Revised: 01 Oct 2024
Eric Martínez and Christoph Winter
University of Chicago Law School and University of Cambridge - Faculty of Law
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Legal personhood, Legal standing, Moral standing, Robot rights, Artificial intelligence, Artificial intelligence & law, Moral circle

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Cross-Cultural Perceptions of Rights for Future Generations

LPP Working Paper No. 6-2022, Tobia (ed.), Cambridge Handbook of Experimental Jurisprudence 2023, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 61 Posted: 01 Nov 2022 Last Revised: 06 Sep 2023
Eric Martínez and Christoph Winter
University of Chicago Law School and University of Cambridge - Faculty of Law
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future generations, personhood, standing, cross-cultural, experimental jurisprudence, longtermism, legal longtermism

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Even Laypeople Use Legalese

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, volume 121, issue 35, 2024 (forthcoming) [10.1073/pnas.2405564121]
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 23 Sep 2024
Eric Martínez, Frank Mollica and Edward Gibson
University of Chicago Law School, University of Edinburgh and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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psycholinguistics, experimental jurisprudence, empirical legal studies, law and language

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The Intuitive Appeal of Legal Protection for Future Generations

LPP Working Paper No. 1-2023, J. Barrett, D. Thorstad, & H. Greaves (Eds.), Essays on Longtermism, Oxford University Press (2023), Forthcoming
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 08 Feb 2023 Last Revised: 10 May 2024
Eric Martínez and Christoph Winter
University of Chicago Law School and University of Cambridge - Faculty of Law
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Traditional and Computational Canons

Harvard Journal of Law & Technology, Vol. 39 (forthcoming 2026)
Number of pages: 82 Posted: 28 Feb 2025 Last Revised: 28 Mar 2025
Eric Martínez
University of Chicago Law School
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large language models, experimental jurisprudence, statutory interpretation, artificial intelligence and law, natural language processing, empirical legal studies, legislation, legal interpretation, judicial decision-making, computational law

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Ordinary Meaning of Existential Risk

LPP Working Paper No. 7-2022
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 16 Dec 2022
Eric Martínez and Christoph Winter
University of Chicago Law School and University of Cambridge - Faculty of Law
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Experimental jurisprudence, existential risk, global catastrophic risk, ordinary meaning analysis