When Do LLMs Apply the Wrong Law? Diagnosing LLM Failures in Temporal Legal Reasoning
arXiv:2608.14610v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Legal reasoning requires identifying which version of a statute applies to a case, typically based on when the legally relevant events occurred rather than when the case is adjudicated. Yet whether large language models (LLMs) can reliably perform such temporal legal reasoning remains largely unexplored. We formalize this task as Temporal Applicable-Law Determination (TALD), and construct a TALD-Bench, a benchmark of 51,956 Chinese civil judgm…