Download This PaperReading Law with ChatGPT (With Special Emphasis on Contextual Canons)
23 Pages Posted: 17 May 2024
Date Written: April 3, 2024
Abstract
We study the performance of ChatGPT interpreting prompts that require legal expertise to answer. Our inputs are very close adaptations from the "Contextual Canons" section of Scalia & Garner's Reading Law: The Interpretation of Legal Texts (Thomson West: 2012). We report our findings for the entire section (comprising 14 canons) of the book. We conclude that ChatGPT is exceptionally successful in taking the contextual canons into account.
Keywords: contextual canons, interpretation of legal texts, law and artificial intelligence, ChatGPT
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Akman, Varol, Reading Law with ChatGPT (With Special Emphasis on Contextual Canons) (April 3, 2024). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4830669 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4830669
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