Open Access Portal on Chinese Law and Policy (2025-2026)
Research on Chinese law and policy is spread across multiple disciplines and platforms, and improving transparency and accessibility would help strengthen interdisciplinary collaboration and broaden public understanding.
This team examined how an open-access research portal could enhance transparency and reflexivity in Chinese law and policy scholarship by making research methods, data sources, analytical frameworks and limitations more visible and accessible.
The project drew on perspectives from legal studies, information science, digital humanities and AI evaluation to integrate legal analysis, platform design, and technical prototyping. A mixed-methods feasibility study of about 140 scholarly works across multiple disciplines was conducted to identify patterns in research methodologies, datasets and primary legal sources. As part of the same effort, the team examined copyright and AI law implications, benchmarked existing research platforms, designed metadata structures, and experimented with AI-assisted tools for research summaries and workflow design. Portal prototypes were also developed and tested using Figma, WordPress-oriented workflows, and Vercel-based design environments, with an emphasis on sustainability, transferability and user-centered design.
Timing
2025 – Spring 2026
Team Outputs
See related team, Building an Open Access Platform for Chinese Law and Policy (2026-2027).