Eric Martínez

@ericgrimani

Associate Professor of Law @TAMULawSchool Law, language, cognition, AI

Chicago, IL

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Joined June 2020

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Eric Martínez
@ericgrimani
Apr 1, 2024
Can AI ace law exams? Last year, OpenAI announced GPT-4 got 90th percentile on the bar. Here we (a) refute 90th percentile claim; (b) replicate/extend recent work on GPT capabilities; (c) discuss implications for law profession. Now open, AI&Law: link.springer.com/article/10.100… 1/
Re-evaluating GPT-4’s bar exam performance
From link.springer.com
Eric Martínez
@ericgrimani
Aug 19
AI can solve open math problems and find security flaws. But can it reliably format a legal citation? New paper w/ Matthew Dahl: across frontier models, the answer is no. We then build a system that does much better. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf… THREAD 1/
Eric Martínez
@ericgrimani
Aug 20, 2024
New paper w/ Frank Mollica, @LanguageMIT in PNAS! “Even laypeople use legalese” Corpus analysis + experiments suggest lawyers use legalese to sound authoritative, an account we dub the magic spell hypothesis Full paper tedlab.mit.edu/tedlab_website… MIT News news.mit.edu/2024/mit-study… 1/
Eric Martínez
@ericgrimani
Apr 25, 2024
Have laws gotten simpler over time? Analyzing all laws by congress 1951-2022, we (w/ Frank Mollica, @LanguageMIT) find laws remain laden with complex structures vs baseline, suggesting efforts to simplify have largely failed Out now @APA JEP-General! psycnet.apa.org/record/2024-76… 1/
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So much for plain language: An analysis of the accessibility of U.S. federal laws over time.
Over the last 50 years, there have been efforts on behalf of the U.S. government to simplify legal documents for society at large. However, there has been no systematic evaluation of how effective...
Eric Martínez
@ericgrimani
Nov 14, 2023
New paper out in @GeorgetownLJ ! With @kevin_tobia “What do law professors believe about law and the legal academy?” law.georgetown.edu/georgetown-law… 🧵 below! 1/