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Jinzhe Tan

Ph.D. Candidate
Faculty of Law, University of Montreal
jinzhe.tan@umontreal.ca


About Me

I am a fourth-year Ph.D. candidate at the Faculty of Law, University of Montreal, exploring the intersection of Artificial Intelligence and Law. As a member of the Cyberjustice Laboratory and under the supervision of Prof. Karim Benyekhlef, my research focuses on leveraging AI to improve the accessibility, fairness, and efficiency of the justice system.

My work applies AI to the legal domain across three core themes: (1) AI-powered Legal Information Systems, (2) Intelligent Dispute Resolution Support, and (3) AI-driven Identifying, Verifying, and Mitigating Flaws in Judicial Decision-Making.

I have published and presented my research at several international conferences. Notably, my co-authored paper received the Best Paper Award at the International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems (JURIX) 2023, with further recognition at the ICAIL 2023 workshops and JURIX 2024.

I am always open to new collaborations—feel free to get in touch if you’d like to connect!

Research Interests

News

  • [Dec. 2025] Presented Enhancing Judicial Autonomy Using Artificial Intelligence at the University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law. 🏛️
  • [Dec. 2025] Presented LegalWebAgent: Empowering Access to Justice via LLM-Based Web Agents at the AIDA2J Workshop at JURIX 2025, Turin. 🤖⚖️
  • [Dec. 2025] Presented LLMediator at the 2025 International Conference on Computational Law in Shanghai. 🇨🇳
  • [Nov. 2025] Participated in the 6th Social Science Law Research Camp & “Law and Social Science” Annual Meeting at Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, Wuhan. 🎓
  • [Nov. 2025] I will be presenting on the topic “AI & Mediation” at the 27th Annual ODR Cyberweek 2025. 🤖⚖️
  • [Oct. 2025] I will be participating in the Young Researchers Panel: “AI&Tech, Justice & Politics” at the ACT Partnership Conference 2025, discussing the autonomy of judicial actors in the AI era. 🔶⚖️
  • [May. 2025] I will be presenting my latest research on AI and judicial decision-making at the 7th Annual Meeting of Young Researchers in Digital Law! 🧠⚖️
  • [Mar. 2025] Excited to share our work on LLMediator, a project using LLMs to support dispute resolution, featured in a public event on AI’s legal implications in the business world. 🤖🤝
  • [Oct. 2024] Paper “Robots in the Middle: Evaluating LLMs in Dispute Resolution” has been accepted by JURIX 2024. You can watch my talk here. 🎥
  • [Dec. 2023] Paper “From Text to Structure: Using Large Language Models to Support the Development of Legal Expert Systems” won the Best Paper Award at JURIX 2023. 🎉

Publications

  1. Robots in the Middle: Evaluating LLMs in Dispute Resolution JURIX 2024
    Jinzhe Tan*, Hannes Westermann, Nikhil Reddy Pottanigari, Jaromír Šavelka, Sébastien Meeùs, Mia Godet, Karim Benyekhlef (*Corresponding authors)
    International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems (JURIX), 2024.
  2. From Text to Structure: Using Large Language Models to Support the Development of Legal Expert Systems JURIX 2023
    Samyar Janatian*, Hannes Westermann, Jinzhe Tan, Jaromir Savelka, Karim Benyekhlef (*Corresponding authors)
    International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems (JURIX), 2023.
  3. Bridging the Gap: Mapping Layperson Narratives to Legal Issues with Language Models ASAIL 2023
    Hannes Westermann*, Sébastien Meeùs, Mia Godet, Aurore Troussel, Jinzhe Tan, Jaromir Savelka, Karim Benyekhlef (*Corresponding authors)
    Automated Semantic Analysis of Information in Legal Text (ASAIL 2023), 2023.
  4. ChatGPT as an Artificial Lawyer? AI4AJ 2023
    Jinzhe Tan*, Hannes Westermann, Karim Benyekhlef (*Corresponding authors)
    Artificial Intelligence for Access to Justice (AI4AJ), 2023.
  5. Data Science Applications and Implications in Legal Studies: A Perspective Through Topic Modelling JDS
    Jinzhe Tan, Huan Wan, Ping Yan, Zhen Zhu* (*Corresponding authors)
    Journal of Data Science (JDS), 2023

Selected Talks

Education

Ph.D. in Innovation, Science, Technology and Law, University of Montreal (2022 - Present)
M.A. in European Law, Sapienza University of Rome (2019 - 2021)
B.A. in Law, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law (2015 - 2019)