About Me

I am a PhD student in the LAST-JD Programme "Law, Science and Technology" at the University of Bologna, Department of Legal Studies (IUS/20 Philosophy of Law), supervised by antonino.rotolo. I am currently on exchange at the University of Luxembourg for my second year.

Before my PhD, I graduated with a Juris Master in Computational Law from Tsinghua University. I also worked as an IT consultant and served as a United Nations volunteer for UNAIDS.

My research interests span legal technology, LLM fairness and robustness, AI ethics, and comparative law between China and the EU (including AI law, data trading law, and autonomous driving law). I am a feminist researcher committed to reducing the gender gap in technology and strengthening international legal governance of emerging technologies.

Publications

  • Yuzhen Shi, Huanghai Liu, Yiran Hu, Gaojie Song, Xinran Xu, Yubo Ma, Tianyi Tang, Li Zhang, Qingjing Chen, Di Feng, Wenbo Lv, Weiheng Wu, Kexin Yang, Sen Yang, Wei Wang, Rongyao Shi, Yuanyang Qiu, Yuemeng Qi, Jingwen Zhang, Xiaoyu Sui, Yifan Chen, Yi Zhang, An Yang, Bowen Yu, Dayiheng Liu, Junyang Lin, Weixing Shen, Bing Zhao, Charles L. A. Clarke, Hu Wei. "PLawBench: A Rubric-Based Benchmark for Evaluating LLMs in Real-World Legal Practice." (ACL 2026). [paper] [arXiv]
  • Yiran Hu, Zongyue Xue, Haitao Li, Siyuan Zheng, Qingjing Chen, Shaochun Wang, Xihan Zhang, Ning Zheng, Yun Liu, Qingyao Ai, Yiqun Liu, Charles L. A. Clarke, Weixing Shen. "LLMs on Trial: Evaluating Judicial Fairness for Large Language Models." (ICLR 2026). [paper] [arXiv]
  • Rongxin Cheng, Jianhui Yang, Bohan Xiong, Ning Zheng, Yiran Hu, Qingjing Chen, Yan Liu, Huanghai Liu, Yun Liu, Weixing Shen. "Self-Refine Learning in LLM Multi-Agent Systems for Legal Norm Cognition and Compliance." (IJCAI-ECAI 2026, Human Centred AI Track). Accepted.
  • Yiran Hu, Huanghai Liu, Qingjing Chen, Ning Zheng, Chong Wang, Yun Liu, Charles L. A. Clarke, Weixing Shen. "J&H: Evaluating the Robustness of Large Language Models Under Knowledge-Injection Attacks in Legal Domain." (AAAI 2025), pp. 28106–28115. [paper] [arXiv]
  • Huanghai Liu, Quzhe Huang, Qingjing Chen, Yiran Hu, Jiayu Ma, Yun Liu, Weixing Shen, Yansong Feng. "JUREX-4E: Juridical Expert-Annotated Four-Element Knowledge Base for Legal Reasoning." (EMNLP 2025), pp. 3794–3814. [paper] [arXiv]
  • Qingjing Chen, Rongxin Cheng, Yan Liu, Ziheng Xie, Kangxin Zhao, Peiming Li, Antonino Rotolo, Yun Liu, Weixing Shen. "EVENS: Equality versus Equity Notion Spectrum of LLMs." (ICAIL 2025), pp. 374–378. [paper]
  • Qingjing Chen, Rongxin Cheng, Yan Liu, Siyuan Zheng, Antonino Rotolo, Yun Liu, Weixing Shen. "Pro-Judice: Aligning LLMs with Procedural Fairness in Judicial Contexts." (JURIX 2025), pp. 385–388. [paper]

Full list on DBLP and Google Scholar.

Education

  • Ph.D. in Law, Science and Technology, University of Bologna, Italy 2024 – 2027
    Supervisor: antonino.rotolo.
    Research: Fairness alignment of LLMs, AI ethics.
  • Exchange, Doctoral Programme in Computer Science and Computer Engineering, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg 2025 – 2026
    Selected coursework: Deontic Logic, Normative Systems, and AI; Scientific Publication: an Editor's Point of View; Research Article Writing.
  • Juris Master in Computational Law, Tsinghua University, China 2021 – 2024
    Research: AI law, autonomous driving law, data compliance, legal tech, gender equality.
  • B.A. in Accounting, Hohai University, China 2015 – 2019

Experience

  • IT Consultant 2019 - 2020
    One year of experience in IT consulting, bridging technology and business solutions.
  • United Nations Volunteer, UNAIDS 2024
    Supported global health initiatives.