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JustNLP

Call for Papers

Overview

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 1, 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 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.

Just-NLP is exactly such a workshop that provides a platform to the Artificial Intelligence community to promote research and discussion in the area of legal NLP. Its purpose is to solicit both matured and early-staged research work from the AI community, aiming to cover topics related to the AI-based solutions for various domain-specific legal challenges. We welcome submissions describing original work on novel applications of AI or NLP techniques to the Legal domain.


Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

  • Legal Information Extraction
  • Legal Machine Translation
  • Models of Legal Reasoning
  • Applications of Large Language Models (LLMs) to Legal Data and Tasks
  • Legal Document Classification
  • Legal Question Resolution and Generation
  • Legal Document Summarization
  • Legal Judgment Prediction
  • Legal Argument Mining
  • Legal Precedent and Statute Retrieval

Submission

Authors can submit the paper via two ways:

NOTE: All authors are required to have an OpenReview profile.

Both long and short paper submissions should follow all of the ARR submission requirements, including:

  • Long Papers (8 pages) and Short Papers (4 pages)
  • Instructions for Two-Way Anonymized Review
  • Authorship
  • Citation and Comparison
  • Multiple Submission Policy, Resubmission Policy, and Withdrawal Policy
  • Ethics Policy including the responsible NLP research checklist
  • Limitations
  • Paper Submission and Templates
  • Optional Supplementary Materials

Final versions of accepted papers will be given one additional page of content (up to 9 pages for long papers, up to 5 pages for short papers) to address reviewers’ comments.

Following the ACL and ARR policies, there is no anonymity period requirement.

Important dates

  • July 22nd, 2025 - First Call for Papers
  • August 22nd, 2025 - Second Call for Papers
  • September 22nd, 2025 - Third Call for Papers
  • October 27th, 2025 - Paper submission deadline
  • October 27th, 2025 - ARR commitment deadline
  • November 22nd, 2025 - Notification of acceptance
  • November 30th, 2025 - Camera-ready papers due
  • December 1st, 2025 - Processing due

Camera-ready information

Authors of accepted archival papers should upload the final version of their paper to the submission system by the camera-ready deadline. Authors may use one extra page to address reviewer comments, for a total of nine pages + references. Broader Impacts/Ethics and Limitations sections are optional and can be included on a 10th page.

Contact

Please contact the organizers at legalaieval@gmail.com for any questions OR Join our Discord server.

Anti-Harassment Policy

JustNLP 2025 adheres to the ACL Anti-Harassment Policy.