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Dr Weiwei Shen

Visiting Fellow

Academic Visitor

Faculty of Law

SJD, LLM Pennsylvania, MSc Oxf, JM Tsinghua

Professor Shen Weiwei is an Associate Professor at the Law School of China University of Political Science and Law, where he directs the Center for Legal Studies on Big Data and Artificial Intelligence and serves as Deputy Director within the Department of Constitutional Law.

Professor Shen began his legal education at Tsinghua Law School, followed by practical experience in international arbitration at a U.S. law firm. His passion for the intersection of law and technology led him to pursue a Master’s degree at the Oxford Internet Institute (Kellogg College). He then earned both an LLM and an SJD with Dean’s Scholarship from Penn Law. He was also a visiting scholar at the National University of Singapore Law Faculty.

His doctoral research, “Balancing Cost-effectiveness and Free Speech: A Theory of Online Infringement Regulation,” demonstrates his deep scholarly engagement with constitutional law and internet law. He has broad research interests in the digital transformation of legal frameworks, and has also published on a number of critical themes in law and technology, including cyber sovereignty, constitutional rights in the digital age, AI regulation, online courts, and online cultural production. His work also extends to law and literature. He is the author of The Myth of Internet Regulation (2024) and has contributed numerous articles to leading academic journals.