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Shilun ZHOU
Shilun Zhou is a first-year PhD student at the Faculty of Law, University of Hong Kong. Her principal research interests lie in the fields of criminal justice, evidence law, and emerging technology, with a particular focus on AI evidence.
Shilun holds degrees from Sun Yat-sen University (LLB, 2019-23) and the University of Edinburgh (LLM in Criminal Law and Criminal Justice, 2023-24). She previously served as Copy-Chief-Editor of the Edinburgh Student Law Review and as a student representative at the University of Edinburgh.
Publications:
Shilun Zhou, ‘Analyzing the Justification for Using Generative AI Technology to Generate Judgments Based on the Virtue Jurisprudence Theory’ (2025) Journal of Decision System (ESCI-Index)
Shilun Zhou, ‘深度伪造证据的鉴真问题及其破解(The Issues and Solutions of Deepfake Evidence Authentication)’ (2025) 司法智库(Judicial Think Tank) (Accepted, Forthcoming)
Shilun Zhou, ‘法庭中的机器人：人形机器人出庭作证对缓和证人出庭难的启示(Robots in the Courtroom: Implications of Humanoid Robots Testifying in Court for Mitigating the Difficulty of Witnesses Appearing in Court)’ (2024) 2 China Law Journal 18-31
Shilun Zhou, ‘The Overstated Challenge: Analysing the Challenge of Southern Criminology to the Hegemony of Northern Criminology and its Implications for Criminological Theory in the 21st Century’ (2024)5 Contemporary Challenges: The Global Crime, Justice and Security 177-197
Shilun Zhou, ‘“Trustworthy AI” Cannot Be Trusted: A Virtue Jurisprudence-based Approach to Analyse Who Is Responsible for AI Errors’ (2024)2 The International Journal of Law, Ethics, and Technology 186-216
Shilun Zhou, ‘大数据侦查行为的证据规则控制—基于对271例裁判文书的实证研究 (The control of evidence rules on big data investigation– –Based on an empirical analysis of 271 adjudication documents)’ (2024) 数字侦查发展与应用(Development and Application of Digital Investigation) 125-144
Shilun Zhou, ‘大数据挖掘行为的认知正义问题研究 (A Study of Cognitive Justice Issues in Big Data Mining Behaviour)’ (2024)1 China Law Journal 14-28
Shilun Zhou, ‘元宇宙视域下的个人信息法律保护研究—以“云端人设”和“现实人设”的统一程度为视角 (Research on the Legal Protection of Individual Information in Metaverse-Taking the Degree of Unity between ‘Cloud Persona’ and ‘Real Persona’ as the Perspective)’ (2022) 11上海法学研究 (Collected Journal of Shanghai Legal Studies) 86-94
Award:
Postgraduate Scholarship, University of Hong Kong, 2024-28
Second-Prize, Seminar on the Development and Application of Digital Investigation, Professional Committee on the Investigation System of the China Association of Criminal Procedure Law and the Chinese People’s Public Security University (PPSUC), 2023.9
Excellent-Prize, 2022 World Artificial Intelligence Legal Youth Forum Writing Competition, Shanghai Law Society, 2022.8
Academic Scholarship, Sun Yat-sen University, 2020