JustNLP 2025
Workshop on NLP for Empowering Justice
Co-located with IJCNLP - AACL 2025 in IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India on December 24th, 2025Recently, the legal system in many populous countries (e.g. India) has been inundated with many pending cases. For example, as per India’s National Judicial Data Grid (2021), there are about 44 million pending cases at various courts in India. Legal systems have been established to ensure, at the very minimum, order and fairness in society, and to safeguard fundamental human rights; however, as the legal maxim goes “justice delayed is justice denied,” such a huge pendency leads to the denial of the fundamental right to justice. Many of these backlogs can be attributed to the usage of manual and inefficient processes.
There is a lot of information, and it is distributed, but the legal system lacks the technology to manage this distributed information, organize it, and extract knowledge from it. In the past, legal practitioners have been mainly alien to the use of technology. Most tasks (e.g., retrieving prior cases, classifying documents, etc.) have been done manually or with limited automation. However, these approaches are not scalable, given the large number of documents. There is an imminent need for AI-enabled automated systems to process legal documents and help augment legal procedures.
The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers focused on Legal NLP to promote research and discussion in the area of Legal NLP.
📣 News
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Registration Policy Note: Authors of shared-task system-description papers are not required to register unless they plan to present their work at the workshop, in which case registration is mandatory. For accepted research papers, at least one author has to register for the workshop and present the paper at the workshop, for the paper to be included in the proceedings. The registering author should email the registration confirmation (from the conference) to mishrashivani1401@gmail.com by December 1, 2025. [Note that conference early registration is till November 30, 2025. See https://2025.aaclnet.org/registration/ for details.]
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October 25th, 2025: 🏆 JUST-NLP 2025 Shared Task Results Announced! The final results for both shared tasks are available as downloadable PDFs: L-SUMM Results and L-MT Results.
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August 25th, 2025: 🎉 JUST-NLP 2025 Shared Task Dataset Released! Information about the JUST-NLP 2025 Shared Task is now available! We are launching 2 shared tasks: Legal Summarization (L-SUMM) and Legal Machine Translation (L-MT). Registration is now open!
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August 25th, 2025: 📋 Registration Open! Teams can now register for the shared tasks. Visit our registration form to participate.
🗓️ Important dates
Shared Task
- August 25, 2025 - Shared Task Dataset Release
- August 25, 2025 - Shared Task Registration Start
- August 25, 2025 - First Call Shared Task
- September 30, 2025 - Shared Task Registration End
- October 14–18, 2025 - Testing Phase
- October 25, 2025 - Results & Leaderboard Announcement
- 03-Nov-2025 - Shared Task Paper Submission Deadline
- 05-Nov-2025 - Shared Task Review Submission Deadline (by participating teams)
- 22-Nov-2025 - Shared Task reviews notification / Final Decisions Announced
- 30-Nov-2025 - Camera-ready Shared Task Papers Due
Regular Papers
- July 22nd, 2025 - First Call for Papers
- August 22nd, 2025 - Second Call for Papers
- September 22nd, 2025 - Third Call for Papers
- September 29th, 2025 - Paper submission deadline (OpenReview, Submission Link).
- October 27th, 2025 - ARR commitment deadline (OpenReview, Commitment Link).
- November 22nd, 2025 - Notification of acceptance.
- November 30th, 2025 - Camera-ready papers due.
- December 1st, 2025 - Proceedings due.
All deadlines are 11:59PM UTC-12:00 (“Anywhere on Earth”).
Program
Program under construction, stay tuned!
FAQ
Can't find your answer? Join our Discord server to ask questions.
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Yes, participants can choose to take part in only one of the shared tasks. However, we encourage participants to engage with all tasks to gain a comprehensive understanding of the challenges and opportunities in Legal NLP.
Invited Speakers
Prof. Niraj Kumar
Professor, National Law University, Delhi
Organizers
You can reach the organizers by e-mail to mailto:legalaieval@gmail.com.
Ashutosh Modi
Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IIT Kanpur), India
Saptarshi Ghosh
Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (IIT Kharagpur)
Asif Ekbal
Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur (IIT Jodhpur)
Pawan Goyal
Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (IIT Kharagpur)
Sarika Jain
National Institute of Technology Kurukshetra (NITKKR), India
Abhinav Joshi
Ph.D. Student, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IIT Kanpur), India
Shivani Mishra
Research Associate, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IIT Kanpur), India
Shounak Paul
Ph.D. Student, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (IIT Kharagpur), India
Debtanu Datta
Ph.D. Student, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (IIT Kharagpur), India
Kshetrimayum Boynao Singh
Senior Research Associate, IIT Patna; PhD Scholar, NIT Silchar
Sandeep Kumar
Ph.D. Student, Indian Institute of Technology Patna (IIT Patna), India