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@misc{niklaus2026lexamhard,
  title        = {LEXam-hard: The LEXam Open Questions the Strongest Open Models Score Lowest On},
  author       = {Niklaus, Joel},
  year         = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/joelniklaus/LEXam-hard}}
}

@article{fan2025lexam,
  title   = {LEXam: Benchmarking Legal Reasoning on 340 Law Exams},
  author  = {Fan, Yu and Ni, Jingwei and Merane, Jakob and Tian, Yang and
             Hermstr{\"u}wer, Yoan and Huang, Yinya and Akhtar, Mubashara and
             Salimbeni, Etienne and Geering, Florian and Dreyer, Oliver and
             Brunner, Daniel and Leippold, Markus and Sachan, Mrinmaya and
             Stremitzer, Alexander and Engel, Christoph and Ash, Elliott and
             Niklaus, Joel},
  journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.12864},
  year    = {2025}
}

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