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Brandon Waldon

University of South Carolina

701 Main Street

Columbia, SC 29208

United States

SCHOLARLY PAPERS

4

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2,355

TOTAL CITATIONS

14

Scholarly Papers (4)

1.

Large Language Models for Legal Interpretation? Don't Take Their Word for It

Georgetown Law Journal, Vol. 114, pp. 114-183 (2025)
Number of pages: 71 Posted: 02 Apr 2025 Last Revised: 04 Apr 2026
University of South Carolina, Georgetown University, Georgetown University, Georgetown University and Georgetown University Law Center
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legal interpretation, large language model, statutory interpretation, textualism, LLMs, artificial intelligence, law and technology

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Legalbench: A Collaboratively Built Benchmark for Measuring Legal Reasoning in Large Language Models

2023 Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, Datasets and Benchmarks Track, Osgoode Legal Studies Research Paper No. 4583531
Number of pages: 143 Posted: 06 Dec 2023
Stanford University, Stanford Law School, Stanford Law School, Stanford University, University of Chicago - Law School, Maxime Tools, Stanford University - Department of Management Science & Engineering, Stanford University, University of South Carolina, Dartmouth College - Department of Mathematics, Stanford University, Maxime Tools, LawBeta, University of California, Santa Barbara, South Texas College of Law Houston, University of Toronto - Faculty of Law, University of Nebraska at Lincoln - College of Law, Harvard University, Harvard Law School, Stanford Law School, Stanford University, Stanford University, University of Bern - Faculty of Science, Stanford University - CodeX - Center for Legal Informatics, Washington University School of Law, Georgetown University Law Center, Stanford Legal Design Lab, Stanford University - Stanford Codex Center, University of Virginia School of Law, Maxime Tools, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Princeton University - Center for Information Technology Policy, York University - Osgoode Hall Law School, Harvard University, Casetext, California Western School of Law, Indiana University Bloomington, Harvard Law School, Independent and Stanford University
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legal practice, law and technology, large language models, artificial intelligence, empirical legal methods, machine learning

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Reading Law with Linguistics: The Statutory Interpretation of Artifact Nouns

Harvard Journal on Legislation, Vol. 62 (2025)
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 22 Jul 2024 Last Revised: 04 Apr 2026
University of South Carolina, Stanford University, Brandeis University, Georgetown University and Georgetown University Law Center
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legal interpretation, statutory interpretation, textualism, Supreme Court, experimental jurisprudence, law and language

4.

Linguistics and Textualism

New York University Law Review (2026)
Number of pages: 69 Posted: 30 Mar 2026 Last Revised: 21 Apr 2026
Kevin Tobia and Brandon Waldon
Georgetown University Law Center and University of South Carolina
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textualism, legal interpretation, Supreme Court, legislation