Hello, I'm Amal
PhD Candidate at Durham University, UK
Iām a researcher in NLP and Legal AI. I work on retrieval, re-ranking, and evaluation for statutory, case law, and contract corpora. I build reproducible pipelines and benchmark datasets to make Legal AI trustworthy.
Latest Publication
2026 ā¢ Open Access
Neural reranking for UK statutory retrieval: Provision-level evaluation and an open distilled model
We introduce UK-STATUTECORPUS and Distilled-Voyage-ModernBERT to improve statutory retrieval. By distilling proprietary legal rerankers into open models, we achieve high-performance provision-level retrieval without relying on closed APIs.