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Closing the Loop: Formally Verified Law as a Reward Signal for Self-Improving Legal AI

Researchers propose an architecture that uses formally verified law as a reward signal for training legal AI, adapting the LLM proposes, verifier disposes paradigm to legal reasoning. The system autoformalizes legal rules into a formal calculus, verifies correctness for computational components, and provides structural guarantees for open-textured analysis. Demonstrated on German procedural deadlines, U.S. Commerce Clause analysis, and cross-jurisdictional sanction proportionality, the architecture closes the reinforcement-learning loop gap in legal AI training.

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arXiv:2606.23913v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This article develops an architecture that creates a formally verifiable reward signal to train legal AI, adapting the LLM proposes, verifier disposes paradigm from mathematical AI to the distinctive demands of law. We present an architecture comprising LLM-driven autoformalization into a formal legal calculus extending Catala, a verification kernel, and explanation generation grounded in formal proof traces. For the computational components of law, the architecture provides provable correctness. For open-textured legal analysis, it provides structural guarantees: every required stage of the legal argument is addressed, argumentation is exercised at the correct stages and not omitted, and the deductive links between steps are valid. We demonstrate the architecture on procedural deadline calculations in German law, Commerce Clause analysis in U.S. constitutional law, and cross-jurisdictional sanction proportionality. We further show that the same architecture has a structural advantage for legal AI training: a deterministic external verifier supplies verifiable outcomes for legal problems and thereby closes the traditional reinforcement-learning loop gap in law.

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