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Connecting legal research, technical facts and professional practice
With the mission of “bridging academic research and practical innovation,” the Research Institute focuses on artificial intelligence, digital forensics, intellectual property and innovation in legal services.
Research Areas
From legal rules to technical facts
Focused on the intersection of the digital economy and legal technology, with sustained, verifiable research and professional output.
Artificial Intelligence & Law
AI regulation, generative-AI governance, algorithmic and content rules, and judicial and compliance issues in AI-related disputes.
Digital Forensics
Electronic evidence, software and platform data, network traces, technical fact reconstruction and proof in intellectual-property disputes.
Data Governance
Data compliance, cross-border data flows, platform governance, data-related intellectual property and digital-economy regulation.
Intellectual Property & Digital Content
Software, video games, digital content, trade secrets and emerging intellectual-property disputes.
Research Institute Advisors
Legal and technical perspectives
The Institute works with advisers whose backgrounds in technology, data and legal practice bring an interdisciplinary perspective to its research.
Special Technical Adviser
Shengjian Wu
A software-engineering graduate of East China Normal University with a master’s degree in electronic information, Wu has more than a decade of experience in AI, computer vision, network-data analysis and software systems. He has published first-author papers at leading CCF-A AI conferences and is first inventor on multiple granted Chinese invention patents.
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Chen Mengyuan
A partner at Shanghai Landing Law Offices and a patent agent, Chen combines computer-science and intellectual-property-law training. Her practice focuses on network and data compliance, intellectual property, TMT and digital-economy matters, with continuing work on AI governance and data-related intellectual property.
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Recent research and professional analysis
Research News | First-Author Paper by Institute Adviser Shengjian Wu Accepted to NeurIPS 2026 Main Track
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