Kilian Lüders

Bachelorabschlüsse in Philosophie (April 2017) und Soziologie (Juli 2017) an der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit?t München. Anschlie?ender Master Sozialwissenschaften an der Humboldt-Universit?t zu Berlin mit Schwerpunkt in Vergleichender Politikwissenschaft (Abschluss M?rz 2021). T?tigkeit als studentische Hilfskraft am Deutschen Jugendinstitut in München und dem Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung. 2021 bis 2024 Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter an der Juristischen Fakult?t der Humboldt-Universit?t zu Berlin (Lehrstuhl Christoph M?llers). Seit 2025 Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter an der Fakult?t für Rechtswissenschaft der Universit?t Regensburg (Juniorprofessur Alexander Tischbirek). Promotionsstudent an der Sozialwissenschaftlichen Fakult?t der Humboldt-Universit?t zu Berlin (Betreuung: Silvia von Steinsdorff & Christoph M?llers).

Forschungsinteressen:

Empirische Rechts- und Gerichtsforschung, Computational Social Science, Natural Language Processing, Sozial- und Rechtstheorie

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Bachelor's degrees in Philosophy (April 2017) and Sociology (July 2017) at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich. Followed by a Master's degree in Social Sciences at the Humboldt University of Berlin, with a specialisation in Comparative Politics (graduated March 2021). Worked as a student assistant at the German Youth Institute in Munich (DJI) and the Berlin Social Science Centre (WZB). 2021 to 2024 research associate at the Faculty of Law at Humboldt-Universit?t zu Berlin (Chair Christoph M?llers). Since 2025 research associate at the Faculty of Law at the University of Regensburg (Junior Professorship Alexander Tischbirek). Doctoral student at the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Humboldt University of Berlin (Supervision: Silvia von Steinsdorff & Christoph M?llers).

Research Interests:

Empirical Research on Law and Courts, Computational Social Science, Natural Language Processing, Social and Legal Theory

??? ?“Balancing as a Mean of Judicial Activism? Analysis of the German Federal Constitutional Court's use of Balancing Language“, German Law Journal 26 (3), 2025, S. 471-492, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/glj.2025.9
??? ?“Exploration and Visualization of a Legal Knowledge Graph: A Human-Centered Approach”, CIKM '25: Proceedings of the 34th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2025, S.3271-3281, (with Sabine Wehnert, Pramod Khumar Bonta, Huu Huong Giang Nguyen, Ernesto William De Luca), DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3746252.3761003
??? ?Review: “Quantitative Methods in Comparative Law” by Pier Giuseppe Monateri & Mauro Balestrieri, Verfassung und Recht in ?bersee / World Comparative Law 58 (2), 2025, S. 258-260, DOI: https://doi.org/10.5771/0506-7286-2025-2-258
??? ? “Classifying proportionality - identification of a legal argument”, Artificial Intelligence & Law 33, 2025, S. 1051-1078, (with Bent Stohlmann), DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10506-024-09415-9
??? ?“Konsolidierung statt Siegeszug - Eine quantitative Untersuchung der Verwendung des Grundsatzes der Verh?ltnism??igkeit in der Rechtsprechung des Bundesverfassungsgerichts”, DER STAAT 63 (2), 2024, S. 217-252, (with Bent Stohlmann, Alexander Tischbirek, Luisa Wendel, Leonard Hoeft, Sophie Reule), ?DOI: https://doi.org/10.3790/staa.2024.356614
??? ?"Information Extraction für deutsche Rechtsdokumente", Zeitschrift für Digitalisierung und Recht 2024/2, S.200-212.
??? ??TENJI: A Textbook Entity Network and Jurisprudence Interface”, Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications (Volume 395: Legal Knowledge and Information Systems), 2024, S. 398-400, (with Sabine Wehnert, Pramod Khumar Bonta, Bent Stohlmann, Ernesto William De Luca), DOI: https://doi.org/10.3233/FAIA241282??????

• Verh?ltnism??igkeit - Proportionality. An annotated dataset of GFCC decisions, [Data set] Zenodo, 2024, (with Luisa Wendel, Sophie Reule, Bent Stohlmann, Leonard Hoeft, Alexander Tischbirek), DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10513684
• LLCon Word Count, Webanwendung zur Suche von W?rtern (Lemmata) in der Senatsrechtsprechung des BVerfG, 2023,?https://llcon.rewi.hu-berlin.de/

• “International Law Networks and Asian International Law Scholarship”, SMU-Georgetown Study and Analysis of International Law Scholarship (SAILS) Workshop, Singapore, 2025 (with Hannah Birkenk?tter).
• “The Geography of International Law discourse”, iCourts Lunch Seminar, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2025.
• “Digital Humanities und juristische Dokumente”, Digital Humanities Kolloquium, Universit?t Stuttgart, 2025.
• “The changing concept of fundamental rights interference – Empirical evidence from the German Federal Constitutional Court”, European Society for Empirical Legal Studies, Toulouse, France, 2025.
• “International Law Networks“, Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, USA, 2025 (with Hannah Birkenk?tter).
• “Legal corpus studies, proportionality, and the promise of LLMs”, Research Seminar, Max-Planck-Institut for Research on Collective Goods, Bonn, 2025 (with Bent Stohlmann).
• “On computational and corpus linguistics analysis of legal judgments – The Leibnitz Linguistic Research into Constitutional Law”, Keynote, Rome, Italy, 2025 (with Bent Stohlmann).
• ?Mining Legal Arguments: Proportionality in German Constitutional Court Judgments”, Seminar Legal History Meets Digital Humanities, Max-Planck-Institut für Rechtsgeschichte und Rechtstheorie, Frankfurt, 2024.
• ?Gerichtsentscheidungen als Datentyp“, Tagung Quantitative Rechtswissenschaft, Wissenschaftskolleg, Berlin, 2024.
• ?Natural Language Processing und die Entscheidungsbegründungen des Bundesverfassungsgerichts“, Digital History Kolloquium, Berlin, 2024.
• ?Balancing as a mean of judicial activism?“, Second Joint Global Politics of Law & Courts Workshop, Oslo, Norway, 2023.
• ?Define one’s own competences”, ECPR General Conference, Prague, Czech Republic, 2023.
• “Extraction of string citations in court data”,?Workshop New Approaches for Extracting Heterogeneous Reference Data, Max-Planck-Institut für Rechtsgeschichte und Rechtstheorie, Frankfurt, 2023 (with Bent Stohlmann).
• “Proportionality as a judicial decision technique”,?5th Annual COMPTEXT Conference, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK, 2023 (with Bent Stohlmann).
• “Measuring the use balancing language” (Poster Presentation), Law and Courts Autumn Immersion, Florence, Italy, 2022.