# JusticeAxis: Benchmarking Legal Judgment between Rigid Rule Application and Ungrounded Discretion

**Published:** October 2, 2026
**Author:** Zhengkai Tu, Mingda Zhang, Zijia Wang, Xiaoying Tang, Jimmy Huang
**Source:** arXiv — cs.AI
**Language:** en-US
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A sound judgment applies the law to established facts and weighs the circumstances in which they arose. However, existing methods swing between rigid statute matching and ungrounded discretion, benchmarks score a label or a rubric, and the experience that would supply the…

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