M. Onur Kafkas — Government Lawyer

M. Onur Kafkas — Government Lawyer · LegalQuants

About

Dual-qualified lawyer in California and Turkey, currently serving as a government lawyer in Turkey navigating the high-stakes friction between national trade policy and WTO standards. While my day job involves the "logic gates" of international trade, tariff classifications, origin determinations, and duty-drawback claims, my obsession is the architecture of legal research. I focus on building local AI applications and technical workflows to bridge the gap between disparate jurisdictions. I believe the future of law belongs to those with the technical judgment to encode complex legal reasoning into reproducible, AI-augmented systems.

Selected work

Churci - [Ch]eck yo[ur] [ci]tationsflagship

Churci audits citations in your briefs and memos. But that is not the whole story. So what is Churci? - Paste your doc or upload a PDF/DOCX and it extracts every citation automatically. - It significantly lowers your AI cost by verifying through CourtListener first and only using AI when needed. - Verifies case law against CourtListener with deduping. - Flags outcomes clearly: Verified, Ambiguous, Needs Review, Hallucinated, or Misrepresented. - Shows legal context around each cite: the paragraph and the proposition being supported. - If a citation is fake/uncertain/mis-cited, it suggests plausible real replacements structured by binding authority, persuasive authority, and secondary sources grounded so you’re not swapping one hallucination for another. And given the power of Gemini 3, you can check your citations and get suggested real cases for a couple cents. All you need is your own Gemini API key and CourtListener API key which are both linked right in the configuration screen.

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Customs-Trade Law Claude Skill

Trade-Law is a skills-based plugin that takes a product description, sometimes just a name, and builds the full classification and compliance analysis from scratch. No templates to fill in, no prior research needed. You describe the product, it produces attorney/broker-reviewable draft work product. What it builds: Full HTS classification Candidate heading identification, GRI 1-6 analysis, Additional U.S. Rules, subheading determination, confidence scoring, and controversy detection, all from the product description alone. CROSS ruling research Searches CBP's ruling database directly, evaluates HQ vs. NY authority, traces revocation chains, detects ruling conflicts, and labels evidence quality so reviewers know what's verified vs. identified. CIT/CAFC case law mapping Finds relevant judicial decisions, extracts holdings from slip opinion PDFs, and maps precedent onto classification risk. Complete duty compilation Column 1 General, special program eligibility, Chapter 99 surcharges (301/232/201), AD/CVD checks, MPF/HMF, all verified against live USITC data. Country of origin analysis Marking rules, FTA qualification, TAA compliance, and Section 301 applicability across multi-country supply chains. Compliance review with built-in triggers Automatically flags when human review is required for GRI 3 disputes, conflicting rulings, AD/CVD scope ambiguity, UFLPA risk, and low confidence scores. The design principle You give it a product, it does the legal research, applies the analytical frameworks (interpretive canons, essential character doctrine, principal use tests), and delivers structured output with citations. Not summaries, not suggestions, actual draft work product. How to get started: Open Claude Code and run: /plugin marketplace add juraxis/trade-law /plugin install trade-law@juraxis Example use cases: /trade-law classify "Double-sided adhesive acrylic foam tape for automotive assembly" /trade-law evaluate CIT decisions for "light-emitting diode (LED) backlights" under heading 8539 /trade-law audit compliance risk for "Cold-rolled steel sheets from South Korea" including AD/CVD and Section 232 status

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