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Peking University Law School () is the law school of
Peking University Peking University (PKU; ) is a public research university in Beijing, China. The university is funded by the Ministry of Education. Peking University was established as the Imperial University of Peking in 1898 when it received its royal charter ...
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in
Beijing } Beijing ( ; ; ), alternatively romanized as Peking ( ), is the capital of the People's Republic of China. It is the center of power and development of the country. Beijing is the world's most populous national capital city, with over 21 ...
, China. Founded in 1904 as the law department of Peking University, it is the oldest law school in China and is generally considered to be one of the most prestigious law schools in Asia. Since 2015, the law school has been ranked first in Mainland China and one of top three law schools in Asia every year by
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. The school has been generally regarded as one of the most highly competitive and selective law school in China. The school's
Bachelor of Laws Bachelor of Laws ( la, Legum Baccalaureus; LL.B.) is an undergraduate law degree in the United Kingdom and most common law jurisdictions. Bachelor of Laws is also the name of the law degree awarded by universities in the People's Republic of Chi ...
students have the highest average scores in China's college entrance examination among all law schools in China, the average acceptance rate of
Master of Laws A Master of Laws (M.L. or LL.M.; Latin: ' or ') is an advanced postgraduate academic degree, pursued by those either holding an undergraduate academic law degree, a professional law degree, or an undergraduate degree in a related subject. In mos ...
and
Juris Master A Master of Studies in Law (M.S.L.), also Master of Science of Law or Master of Legal Studies (M.L.S.) or Juris Master (J.M.) or Masters of Jurisprudence (M.J.) or Master in Law (M.L.), is a master's degree offered by some law schools to students ...
is less than 10% in 2017. Peking University Law School confers four types of law degrees: Bachelor of Laws, Master of Laws, Juris Master, and
Doctor of Laws A Doctor of Law is a degree in law. The application of the term varies from country to country and includes degrees such as the Doctor of Juridical Science (J.S.D. or S.J.D), Juris Doctor (J.D.), Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), and Legum Doctor (LL. ...
. As of 2017, PKU LAW employs more than 70 professors and has established 36 research centers. Four of the law school's disciplines including Legal Theory Studies, Constitution and Administrative Law Studies, Economic Law Studies, and Criminal Law Studies are ranked the best in China. The school publishes 11 legal journals including ''Peking University Law Journal'' (edited by staff members) and ''Peking University Law Review'' (edited by students). Peking University Law School has produced a significant number of luminaries in both law and politics. Its alumni include China's incumbent Prime Minister
Li Keqiang Li Keqiang (born 1 July 1955) is a Chinese politician who is the outgoing premier of China. An economist by profession, Li is head of China's executive branch as well as one of the leading figures behind China's Financial and Economic Affai ...
and four of the current justices of China's Supreme Court, Jiang Bixin, Nan Ying, Sun Huapu and Pei Xianding. According to a survey conducted in 2017, 246 partners of China's top 8 law firms are PKU LAW alumni, more than the second and the third-ranked law school combined. The school is also the workplace for some of the most prominent legal scholars in China, including Zhang Qianfan, Chen Xinliang, and
He Weifang He Weifang (born July 17, 1960; ) is a former professor at Peking University of China and an activist striving to reform the Chinese judicial system, who has argued that the Chinese Communist Party is an unregistered and therefore an illegal orga ...
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History

Founded in 1904, Peking University Law School is China's oldest law school. Its parent institution, Peking University, is the first national university in modern China. In 1898, China's young emperor Guang Xu and his supporters initiated the "hundred days' reform", the reform was an attempt to modernize China by reforming its government, economy and society. The short-lived reform saw the establishment of the
Imperial University of Peking Peking University (PKU; ) is a public research university in Beijing, China. The university is funded by the Ministry of Education. Peking University was established as the Imperial University of Peking in 1898 when it received its royal charter ...
, which started offering law courses in 1902. It was one of only two law schools to not be closed during the upheaval of the
Cultural Revolution The Cultural Revolution, formally known as the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, was a sociopolitical movement in the People's Republic of China (PRC) launched by Mao Zedong in 1966, and lasting until his death in 1976. Its stated goal ...
in 1966–1976. In 1898, China's young emperor Guang Xu and his supporters initiated the "hundred days' reform", the reform was an attempt to modernize China by reforming its government, economy and society The short-lived reform saw the establishment of the
Imperial University of Peking Peking University (PKU; ) is a public research university in Beijing, China. The university is funded by the Ministry of Education. Peking University was established as the Imperial University of Peking in 1898 when it received its royal charter ...
, which started offering law courses in 1902. It was one of only two law schools to not be closed during the upheaval of the
Cultural Revolution The Cultural Revolution, formally known as the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, was a sociopolitical movement in the People's Republic of China (PRC) launched by Mao Zedong in 1966, and lasting until his death in 1976. Its stated goal ...
in 1966–1976. On May 24, 2003, in the prominent case of Sun Zhigang, three graduate students of the law school,
Xu Zhiyong Xu Zhiyong (; born March 2, 1973) is a Chinese civil rights activist and formerly a lecturer at the Beijing University of Post and Telecommunications. He was one of the founders of the NGO Open Constitution Initiative and an active rights lawy ...
, Teng Biao and Yu Jiang submitted a proposal regarding the Measures of Custody and Repatriation for Urban Vagrants and Beggars to the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, citing concerns that the provisions restricted personal freedom of citizens and contradicted with the civil rights protection clauses of the Constitution. The proposal urged the committee to conduct a review of the provisions' constitutionality and had drawn national attention. The State Council of China formally revoked the Measures of Custody and Repatriation for Urban Vagrants and Beggars on June 20, 2020. This case has been widely regarded as a landmark case of China's civil rights protection movement. In 2005, three professors and three graduate students of the law school filed the first public interest litigation in China, asking the Heilongjiang Higher People's Court to fine the defendant PetroChina a total of 10 Billion Yuan to set up a public fund to restore the environment of the
Songhua River The Songhua Postal Romanization, or Sunghwa River (also Haixi or Xingal, russian: Сунгари ''Sungari'') is one of the primary List of rivers of China, rivers of China, and the longest tributary of the Amur. It flows about from the Chang ...
, which was seriously polluted by an explosion of a Diphenyl Plant owned by PetroChina. However, the court refused to accept the case citing political concerns.


Periodicals

*''Peking University Law Journal'' *''Peking University Law Review''


Prominent faculty

* Zhang Qianfan: constitutional law, comparative constitution, Chinese constitution, constitutional theory *
Chen Xingliang Chen may refer to: People * Chen (surname) (陳 / 陈), a common Chinese surname * Chen (singer) (born 1992), member of the South Korean-Chinese boy band EXO * Chen Chen (born 1989), Chinese-American poet * (), a Hebrew first name or surname: ...
: criminal law philosophy, dogmatics of criminal law, case study of criminal law *
He Weifang He Weifang (born July 17, 1960; ) is a former professor at Peking University of China and an activist striving to reform the Chinese judicial system, who has argued that the Chinese Communist Party is an unregistered and therefore an illegal orga ...
: history of western legal ideology, legal theory, comparative law, judiciary, foreign legal history *
Chen Ruihua Chen may refer to: People * Chen (surname) (陳 / 陈), a common Chinese surname * Chen (singer) (born 1992), member of the South Korean-Chinese boy band EXO * Chen Chen (born 1989), Chinese-American poet * (), a Hebrew first name or surname: ...
: criminal procedure, evidence law, judiciary, procedure theory, legal methodology *
Bai Guimei BAI or Bai may refer to: BAI Organizations * BAI Communications, telecommunications infrastructure company * BAI (organization), professional organization for financial services in the United States *Badminton Association of India, India's go ...
: international law, basic theory of international law, international human rights law * Bai Jianjun: criminology, criminal law, empirical legal study, financial criminology * Che Hao : Chinese criminal law, foreign criminal law, philosophy and policy of criminal law * Liang Genlin: criminal law, criminal policy science, criminology * Gan Peizhong: enterprise law, corporation law, security law, economic law * Ge Yunsong: general part of civil procedure, property law, law of obligations, law of negotiable instruments, NPO law * Guo Li: economic law, international economic law, law and finance, commercial law, comparative law * Guo Zili: foreign criminal law, law and biomedical technology *
Jiang Shigong Jiang Shigong (; born 11 November 1967) is a Chinese legal and political theorist, currently a professor at Peking University Law School, and a researcher on Hong Kong affairs. He is a "conservative socialist" exponent of Xi Jinping Thought an ...
: jurisprudence, constitutional law, Hong Kong legal studies, legal sociology * Liu Jianwen Professor: fiscal and taxation law, intellectual property law, economic law, international taxation law * Liu Kaixiang: property law, contract law, partnership law, trust law *Pan Jianfeng: civil procedure, evidence law, arbitration system, judiciary * Qian Mingxing: civil and commercial law Shen Kui: administrative law, constitutional law, national compensation system, human rights, risk management *
Wang Jiancheng Wang Jiancheng (Chinese: 汪建成; Pinyin: ''Wāng Jiànchéng'', born 1962) is a Chinese scholar of criminal procedure law, former Dean of Law Department, Yantai University, and currently a professor at Peking University Law School. Biography Wa ...
: criminal procedure law, evidence law * Wang Jin: environmental law, economic law * Wang Shizhou: criminal law, international criminal law, foreign criminal law, European criminal law *
Wang Xixin Wang may refer to: Names * Wang (surname) (王), a common Chinese surname * Wāng (汪), a less common Chinese surname * Titles in Chinese nobility * A title in Korean nobility * A title in Mongolian nobility Places * Wang River in Thailand ...
: Chinese administrative law, analysis of legal and administrative process, administrative procedure, comparative administrative law *
Wu Zhipan Wu may refer to: States and regions on modern China's territory *Wu (state) (; och, *, italic=yes, links=no), a kingdom during the Spring and Autumn Period 771–476 BCE ** Suzhou or Wu (), its eponymous capital ** Wu County (), a former county ...
: international economic law, nancial law * Xu Aiguo: history of western legal ideology, Anglo American Law of Torts, foreign tax law * Ye Jingyi: social law, labour law, social security law * Zhang Ping: intellectual property law, Internet law *
Zhang Shouwen Zhang may refer to: Chinese culture, etc. * Zhang (surname) (張/张), common Chinese surname ** Zhang (surname 章), a rarer Chinese surname * Zhang County (漳县), of Dingxi, Gansu * Zhang River (漳河), a river flowing mainly in Henan * ''Z ...
: economic law, scal and taxation law, social law * Zhan Zhongle: administrative law, administrative procedure law, education law, environmental law, police law


Alumni

Peking University Law School's prestige and large class size has enabled it to produce a large number of luminary alumni, including the current prime minister of China Li Keqiang. Li Keqiang was enrolled in the law school in 1977 when the school resumed admission following the end of the cultural revolution. Four sitting justices of China's Supreme Court are alumni of Peking University Law school. The school's alumni also include some of the most prominent legal scholars in China's modern history, including Mu Rui, founder of China's economic law and international economic law; Gong Xiangrui, prominent scholar of constitutional law; Wang Tieya, international jurist and former Justice of the International Criminal Tribunal of the former Yugoslavia. Zhang Guohua, legal historian, one of the founders of the studies of Chinese legal thought history; Xiao Weiyun, constitutional jurist, member of the Basic Law Drafting Committee of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and the Basic Law Drafting Committee of the Macao Special Administrative Region; Yang Chunxi, criminal jurist, one of founders of contemporary Chinese criminal law; Luo Haocai, administrative law jurist and former justice of China's supreme court.


Affiliated research institutions

* PKU Institute of International Law * PKU Research Centre for Law and Economics * PKU Institute of Economic Law * PKU Institute of Modern Law * PKU Research Centre for Crime * PKU Real Estate Law Center * PKU Institute of Comparative Law & Sociology of Law * PKU Fiscal Law Research Center * PKU Science & Technology Law Center * PKU Center for Public Participation Studies and Supports * PKU Center for Hong Kong & Macao Studies * PKU Civil Law Research Centre * PKU Financial Law Research Centre * PKU Corporate Finance & Law Research Centre * PKU Centre for Resources, Energy and Environmental Law Studies * PKU Soft Law Studies * PKU Institute of Labor Law and Social Security Act * PKU Joint Center for China-US Law and Policy Studies * PKU Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law Studies * PKU Research Center for Clear Society * PKU Tax Law Research Centre * PKU Center for Charity, Sports and Law * PKU Research Center for NPO Law * PKU-Yale Joint Centre for Law and Policy Reform Studies * PKU Institute of International Economic Law * PKU Research Centre for Competition Law * PKU Maritime Law Research Centre * PKU Corporation and Company Law Research Centre * PKU Centre for People's Congress and Foreign Legislature Studies * PKU Centre for International Intellectual Property Law * PKU Centre for Constitution Administrative Law Studies * China's Centre for Enterprise Legal Risk Management Studies * PKU Institute of Positive Law * PKU Research Centre for Education Law * PKU Centre for WTO Law Study * PKU Law & Development Academy


References


External links

* {{authority control Law schools in China Peking University