JustNLP 2025

Workshop on NLP for Empowering Justice

Co-located with IJCNLP - AACL 2025 in IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India on December 24th, 2025

Recently, 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

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.]
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.
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!
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

09:00 – 09:15

Introduction

09:15 – 10:00

Invited talk 1: Prof. Niraj Kumar

Artificiality of Law in Reference to Artificial Intelligence

10:00 – 10:30

Paper presentations (10 mins talk + 5 mins Q&A)

Grahak-Nyay: Consumer Grievance Redressal through Large Language Models

Nyay-Darpan: Enhancing Decision Making Through Summarization and Case Retrieval for Consumer Law in India

10:30 – 11:00

Coffee break

11:00 – 11:45

Invited talk 2: Nishi Yadav

Fixing the Process, Powering the System: What Jharkhand Teaches India About Legal-Tech

11:45 – 12:30

Paper presentations (10 mins talk + 5 mins Q&A)

LeCNet: A Legal Citation Network Benchmark Dataset

Legal Document Summarization: A Zero-shot Modular Agentic Workflow Approach

LLM Driven Legal Text Analytics: A Case Study For Food Safety Violation Cases

12:30 – 14:00

Lunch

14:00 – 14:45

Shared tasks

Overview of Shared Tasks (15 mins)

From Scratch to Fine-Tuned: A Comparative Study of Transformer Training Strategies for Legal Machine Translation (10 mins)

Contextors at L-SUMM: Retriever-Driven Multi-Generator Summarization (10 mins)

NIT-Surat@L-Sum: A Semantic Retrieval-Based Framework for Summarizing Indian Judicial Documents (10 mins)

14:45 – 15:30

Invited talk 3: Arghya Bhattacharya

Building AI for India’s Courtrooms: Scaling Sovereign Voice & Language Systems Across 20% of the Judiciary

15:30 – 16:00

Coffee break

16:00 – 16:45

Invited talk 4: Joseph Pookkatt, Sampritha Manjunath, Parth Parikh

Designing and Implementing Knowledge Graphs in the Legal Domain

16:45 – 17:00

Conclusion

FAQ

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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.