Dominik Stammbach

Legal Retrieval for Public Defenders, Stammbach et al., 2026, forthcoming in TMLR arxiv.org/abs/2601.14348 Here, we describe the research challenges we encountered while building the Resource Library. We also release a realistic benchmark for public defense retrieval (5/8)

Legal Retrieval for Public Defenders arxiv.org

For further reading, we point to - CITP Blogpost tinyurl.com/4zy89376 - NJOPD press release tinyurl.com/ycxyr5vt - In-depth research blogpost: tinyurl.com/389n2mwe - Cheong et al., 2026 arxiv.org/abs/2510.22933 - Stammbach et al., 2026 arxiv.org/abs/2601.14348 (10/12)

How Can AI Augment Access to Justice? Public Defenders' Perspectives on AI Adoption arxiv.org

For further reading, we point to - CITP Blogpost tinyurl.com/4zy89376 - NJOPD press release tinyurl.com/ycxyr5vt - In-depth research blogpost: tinyurl.com/389n2mwe - Cheong et al., 2026 arxiv.org/abs/2510.22933 - Stammbach et al., 2026 arxiv.org/abs/2601.14348 (10/12)

NEW JERSEY OFFICE OF THE PUBLIC DEFENDER LAUNCHES OPD RESOURCE LIBRARY nj.gov

Press coverage: - ABA Journal tinyurl.com/ykj8a8vb - Law360 tinyurl.com/5dy22e2k - NJBIZ njbiz.com/nj-public-de... (7/8)

NJ public defenders launch AI platform to streamline legal work njbiz.com

For further reading, we point to - CITP Blogpost tinyurl.com/4zy89376 - NJOPD press release tinyurl.com/ycxyr5vt - In-depth research blogpost: tinyurl.com/389n2mwe - Cheong et al., 2026 arxiv.org/abs/2510.22933 - Stammbach et al., 2026 arxiv.org/abs/2601.14348 (10/12)

Princeton’s CITP and the NJ Office of the Public Defender Launch an AI-powered Resource Library - CITP Blog blog.citp.princeton.edu

For further reading, we point to - CITP Blogpost tinyurl.com/4zy89376 - NJOPD press release tinyurl.com/ycxyr5vt - In-depth research blogpost: tinyurl.com/389n2mwe - Cheong et al., 2026 arxiv.org/abs/2510.22933 - Stammbach et al., 2026 arxiv.org/abs/2601.14348 (10/12)

POLARIS Lab polarislab.org

Really exciting work led by Patty Liu on LLM-generated hallucinated legal citations! We also put out a more technical draft describing a dataset and methods for benchmarking legal citation verification princeton-polaris-lab.github.io/legal-halluc...

princeton-polaris-lab.github.io

How can AI support public defense? We have worked on this question for the last two years, and have (1) built an AI retrieval tool for the NJ Office of the Public Defender and (2) conducted qualitative interviews with defenders. Our main insights 👇(1/12)