Recently, Fu Xin, Associate Professor of the School of Foreign Languages, and Wei Chenshu, PhD, of the School of Criminal Law, were invited to attend the 8th International Conference on Evidence Law and Forensic Science, held at the University of Coimbra in Portugal.
Themed “Rethinking Evidence Law and Forensic Science in the Age of Artificial Intelligence,” this year’s conference was hosted by the International Association of Evidence Science and the Institute of Evidence Law and Forensic Science of China University of Political Science (Key Laboratory of Evidence Science of the Ministry of Education, China), and co-organized by the Center for Judicial and Legal Studies of and Portuguese-Speaking Countries of the Faculty of Law, University of Macau, and University of Coimbra Institute for Legal Research. The conference was supported by the Collaborative Innovation Center of Judicial Civilization under the national “2011 Plan” and the Innovation Base of Disciplines for Evidence Science of the Innovation and Intelligence Program for Higher Education Disciplines” (111 project). Experts and scholars from China, Portugal, the United States, the United Kingdom, Poland, Switzerland, Japan, and other countries and regions engaged in in-depth discussions on such topics as theories and methods of judicial proof, rules of evidence and evidentiary reasoning, scientific evidence, AI-generated evidence, and digital technology and human rights protection.
Following academic review by the conference committee, the two papers submitted by Associate Professor Fu Xin and PhD Wei Chenshu were accepted as outstanding papers and received funding support from the Collaborative Innovation Center for Judicial Civilization under the national “2011 Plan.” During the conference, the two faculty members delivered presentations in the sessions “Rules of Evidence” and “New Frontiers in Scientific Evidence,” respectively, entitled “On the Construction of Review Principles and Rules for AI-Generated Evidence in China’s Criminal Cases” and “Confronting AI-Generated Evidence: A Group Cognition Perspective V.” They also engaged in academic exchanges with other conference participants.
At this high-level international academic exchange, the two faculty members engaged in cross-border academic discussions on practical issues of Chinese evidence law and artificial intelligence. Their participation contributed to integrating research in Chinese evidence law into the international academic community and further enhanced the university’s academic influence and level of internationalization in interdisciplinary research on evidence law and artificial intelligence law.
