AI and Law Seminar on March 19 with Hannes Westermann (hybrid)
Sabine Wehnert
Dear colleagues,
We would like to invite you to a session of the AI and Law Seminars at Ruhr University Bochum (RUB), organized by the Chair of Trustworthy Human Language Technologies (RUB) and the Center for Critical Computational Studies (Goethe University Frankfurt).
In this session, we are pleased to host Dr. Hannes Westermann (Maastricht University / Maastricht Law and Tech Lab), who will give a talk titled:
“AI and Large Language Models for Access to Justice”
This event will be hybrid. If you would like to join online, please contact me to receive the meeting link. To help us manage access smoothly, we kindly ask you to request the link as early as possible and not at short notice on the day of the event (ideally no later than the day before).
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AI and Large Language Models for Access to Justice
In recent years, large language models have led to significant advances in computers’ ability to understand, generate, and reason with language. In this presentation, I explore how these models can be used to increase access to justice, for example, by helping laypeople navigate interactions with the legal system. I draw on examples from my research projects examining whether LLMs can perform legal reasoning, provide legal information, mediate disputes, and assist with filling out forms, to better understand both the promise and the limitations of generative AI for legal tasks.
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Hannes Westermann is Assistant Professor of Law and Artificial Intelligence at Maastricht University and the Maastricht Law and Tech Lab. His research focuses on the use of AI and generative AI to improve access to justice. He recently obtained his PhD from the Université de Montréal and the Cyberjustice Laboratory, where he developed JusticeBot, an innovative online platform that provides legal information to laypeople using AI. The platform has been used over 50,000 times. He has presented his research findings at international conferences and was awarded the “Best Paper Award” at JURIX 2020 and 2023. His work has also been featured in the Financial Times and Context.news.
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When: Thursday, 19 March 2026, 13:00
(CET)
Hybrid: In-person at RUB + online (meeting link and location details on
request)
We are looking forward to seeing you!
Best regards,
Sabine Wehnert
John Zeleznikow
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