In previous classes we discussed that legislators, judges and administrators always have a discretionary choice in applying the law. This means that a lawyer will not only have to provide a plausible interpretation of the law, but also convince them to exercise this discretion in her clients’ favor. This, in turn, requires the lawyer to think about how legislators, judges and administrators perceive her arguments. In this blogpost, we will first look at how jurists really think (and how this differs from the common image of jurists rationally evaluating all relevant facts of a case), and how this can be relevant for you to make convincing arguments. Thereafter we will look at ways how to deal with the fact that jurists are not always deciding on rational grounds alone; in particular, we will talk about “legal storytelling”, which can help you make your argument more accessible and convincing than a “pure” doctrinal argument could be.
How to Fine-Tune Llama2 for Python Coding on Consumer Hardware
Introduction Our previous article covered Llama 2 in detail, presenting the family of Large Language models (LLMs) that Meta introduced recently and made available…