@inproceedings{kang-etal-2026-jpo, title = "{JPO}: Juris Policy Optimization for Structured Legal Reasoning in Criminal Judgment Prediction", author = "Kang, Zhaolu and Liu, Yantao and Luo, Tailong and Zheng, Leqi and Wei, Lei and Zhu, Chenghua and Gong, Junhao and Qian, Jiachen and Jiang, Eric Hanchen and Liu, Jiaxin and Wang, Yuan and Zhang, Hao and Wang, Zixia and Fu, Rong and Lin, Zheng and Xuan, Richeng and Hu, Zhichao", editor = "Lee, Hung-Yi and Dev, Sunipa and Li, Jessy and Elliott, Desmond", booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing", month = oct, year = "2026", address = "Budapest, Hungary", publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics", url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.emnlp-main.1071/", pages = "24588--24614", ISBN = "979-8-89176-459-0" }