China University of Political Science and Law

The China University of Political Science and Law (CUPL, 中国政法大学, commonly abbreviated 法大 Fada) is a national public university in Beijing, China, founded in 1952 as the Beijing College of Political Science and Law and directly affiliated with the Ministry of Education, which co-sponsors it with the Beijing Municipal People's Government.中国政法大学（China University of Political Science and Law，简称 CUPL，中文简称「法大」）是北京市的全国重点公立大学，1952 年以北京政法学院之名创办，为教育部直属、部市共建高校。

It is the only university specialising in political science and law in Project 211, a Double First-Class construction university with law as its construction discipline, and a key institution under the 985 Advantageous Discipline Innovation Platform, the 2011 Programme and the 111 Programme.学校是「211 工程」重点建设高校中唯一的政法类大学、「双一流」建设高校（法学为一流建设学科），同时是「985 工程优势学科创新平台」、「2011 计划」与「111 计划」重点建设高校。

The university teaches 18,246 students, including 9,992 undergraduates, across 27 teaching units on two campuses, the Changping campus for undergraduates and the Haidian campus for graduate students, and it sits in the 1401+ band of the QS World University Rankings 2027.学校设 27 个教学单位，分昌平、海淀两个校区，本科生在昌平校区就读，研究生在海淀校区就读。截至 2024 年 9 月，全校有学生 18,246 人，其中本科生 9,992 人，学校在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中位于 1401+ 并列区间。

History

• In the nationwide restructuring of higher education in 1952, the law department of Peking University, the political science departments of Peking University and Tsinghua University, the political science department of Yenching University and the sociology department of Fu Jen Catholic University were merged to form the Beijing College of Political Science and Law.1952 年全国高等院校院系调整中，北京大学法律系、北京大学政治系、清华大学政治系、燕京大学政治系与辅仁大学社会学系等合并组建北京政法学院。

• A preparatory committee of eleven members, chaired by the political scientist Qian Duansheng, was established on 23 August 1952, and in September the Ministry of Education's proposal to found the college was approved by the Culture and Education Commission of the Government Administration Council.1952 年 8 月 23 日，由政治学家钱端升任主任委员的 11 人筹备委员会成立，同年 9 月，教育部关于成立北京政法学院的请示获政务院文化教育委员会批复同意。

• The college was formally inaugurated on 24 November 1952 in the auditorium at Shatian, sharing the campus of Peking University and the Central Institute of Finance, with its registered address at the Red Building of Peking University.1952 年 11 月 24 日，北京政法学院在沙滩校区礼堂举行成立典礼，与北京大学、中央财经学院共用沙滩校区，注册办学地址为北京大学红楼。

• In January 1953 Qian Duansheng was appointed the first president of the college, with Wu Zhensheng as party secretary and first vice-president, Liu Ang as dean of studies, and Lei Jieqiong and Fei Qing as vice-deans.1953 年 1 月，钱端升获任命为学院首任院长，武振声任党组书记兼第一副院长，刘昂任教务长，雷洁琼、费青任副教务长。

• The first intake was divided into six classes, the first three being one-year training classes for revolutionary cadres, while more than 150 freshmen admitted in 1952 to the law department of Peking University and the political science department of Tsinghua University were enrolled in a two-year class.建校之初学生分编六个班，第一至三班为学制一年的调干培训班，1952 年考入北京大学法律系、清华大学政治学系的 150 余名新生则编入学制两年的班级。

• To relieve the shortage of space, the college moved to the new campus at Xueyuan Road on 12 February 1954, where teachers and students built three dormitory blocks, the joint building that is today the main building of the Haidian campus, an auditorium and a dining hall.1954 年 2 月 12 日，学院迁址学院路新校区，师生协力建起三座宿舍楼、联合楼（今海淀校区主楼）以及礼堂和膳厅。

• From 1954 the college admitted four-year undergraduates into a single department of political science and law, and Soviet legal experts such as the criminal law scholar Chugunov and the civil law scholar Koyrilova assisted its teaching.1954 年起，学院改招四年制本科生，设单一「政法系」，刑法学家楚贡诺夫、民法学家克依里洛娃等苏联法学专家曾援助教学。

• After the college was transferred to local administration in 1958 enrolment fell, a department of political education was created, and a proposal to rename it the Beijing College of Humanities and Law was eventually dropped.1958 年学院下放地方管理后学生人数下降，学校一度设立政教系并酝酿更名为「北京文法学院」，更名计划最终未能实现。

• The college was designated a national key university in 1960, stopped recruiting in 1966 during the Cultural Revolution and was formally abolished in 1970, with most of its teachers sent to May Seventh cadre schools in Anhui.1960 年学院被确立为全国重点大学，1966 年因「文化大革命」停止招生，1970 年正式撤销，多数教师下放安徽五七干校。

• The college was reinstated on 5 August 1978 under a notice issued by the Supreme People's Court, the Supreme People's Procuratorate, the Ministry of Public Security and the Ministry of Education, and it trained 35 postgraduate students in law, political economy and philosophy in its first year back.1978 年 8 月 5 日，根据最高人民法院、最高人民检察院、公安部、教育部发布的通知，北京政法学院复办，复办第一年即培养法律、政治经济学和哲学三专业的 35 名研究生。

• In January 1982 a central directive on strengthening political and legal work called for the prompt founding of the China University of Political Science and Law as the centre of national political-legal education.1982 年 1 月，中央关于加强政法工作的指示要求抓紧筹办中国政法大学，把它建成全国政法教育的中心。

• On 7 May 1983 the Beijing College of Political Science and Law merged with the Central Political-Legal Cadre School to form the China University of Political Science and Law, and Deng Xiaoping personally wrote out the name of the university.1983 年 5 月 7 日，北京政法学院与中央政法干部学校合并组建中国政法大学，邓小平亲自为学校题写校名。

• Liu Fuzhi, a former minister of public security who later became procurator-general of the Supreme People's Procuratorate, served as the first president of the university from February 1983 to December 1984, and Zou Yu, minister of justice from 1983 to 1988, followed from December 1984 to June 1988.曾任公安部部长、后任最高人民检察院检察长的刘复之于 1983 年 2 月至 1984 年 12 月任大学首任校长，1983 年至 1988 年任司法部部长的邹瑜于 1984 年 12 月至 1988 年 6 月继任。

• The university was organised as one institution with three colleges, for undergraduates, postgraduates and advanced cadres, and the advanced cadres college later became the separate Central Political-Legal Cadre School, which merged back into the university in 2000.学校形成一校含本科生院、研究生院、进修生院的三院格局，进修生院后更名中央政法管理干部学院单独办学，2000 年又并入中国政法大学。

• As the old campus could not hold the growing student body, the university chose a site at the foot of the Jundu Mountains in Changping in 1984, laid the foundation stone on 7 June 1986 and opened the new campus in September 1987.因旧校区难以容纳日益增长的学生规模，学校 1984 年选定昌平军都山下建设新校区，1986 年 6 月 7 日奠基，1987 年 9 月正式启用。

• The first cohort of 1987 students, remembered as the pioneers of the Changping campus, are commemorated by a stone sculpture of an ox breaking new ground, donated by the cohort, at the centre of the campus.1987 级首批学生被誉为昌平校区的「拓荒者」，校园中心现立有 87 级校友联名捐赠的石刻雕像「拓荒牛」以作纪念。

• After the principle of governing the country according to law was written into the Chinese constitution in 1999, the university gained room to recover, and in 2000 it was transferred as a whole from the Ministry of Justice to the Ministry of Education.1999 年「依法治国，建设社会主义法治国家」写入宪法后，学校迎来复苏空间，2000 年由司法部整体划转教育部管理。

• Xu Xianming took office as president in September 2001 and carried out a series of reforms that restored the university's prestige, and the university entered Project 211 in 2005.徐显明于 2001 年 9 月出任校长，推行一系列改革，显著恢复学校声望，学校于 2005 年进入「211 工程」。

• In the third round of the Ministry of Education's discipline evaluation released in 2012, the university's law discipline ranked second in China with 92 points, behind only Renmin University of China with 95 points.2012 年教育部第三轮学科评估中，学校法学得分 92 分、居全国第 2 位，仅次于得分 95 分的中国人民大学。

• In the fourth round released in 2017, law was graded A+, a grade shared only with Renmin University of China, and the university entered the Double First-Class Construction in the same year with law as its construction discipline.2017 年公布的第四轮学科评估中，学校法学获评 A+，全国仅中国人民大学与中国政法大学获此成绩，同年学校进入「双一流」建设行列，法学为一流建设学科。

• On 3 August 2020 the university became the first legislative contact point set up by the Legislative Affairs Commission of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress inside a university.2020 年 8 月 3 日，学校成为全国人大常委会法制工作委员会设立的首个高校立法联系点。

• The university marked its 70th anniversary on 16 May 2022, was confirmed as a Double First-Class construction university for a second time in 2022, and in September 2024 its tenured professor Zhang Jinfan received the national honorary title of People's Educator.学校于 2022 年 5 月 16 日迎来建校 70 周年，同年入选第二轮「双一流」建设高校，2024 年 9 月终身教授张晋藩获「人民教育家」国家荣誉称号。

Academics

• The university runs 27 teaching units, including the School of Law, the School of Civil, Commercial and Economic Law, the School of International Law, the School of Criminal Justice, the School of Political Science and Public Administration, the Business School, the School of Humanities, the School of Sociology, the School of Marxism, the Guangming School of Journalism and Communication, the School of Discipline Inspection and Supervision, the School of National Security and the China-EU School of Law.学校设有 27 个教学单位，包括法学院、民商经济法学院、国际法学院、刑事司法学院、政治与公共管理学院、商学院、人文学院、社会学院、马克思主义学院、光明新闻传播学院、纪检监察学院、国家安全学院与中欧法学院等。

• It offers 32 undergraduate majors, of which law, political science and administration, and sociology are national characteristic majors, and it also runs a programme in political science, economics and philosophy.学校设有 32 个本科专业，法学、政治学与行政学、社会学为国家级特色专业，并开设「政治学、经济学与哲学」跨学科专业。

• The university is authorised to award six first-level academic doctoral degrees, two professional doctoral degrees and 42 second-level doctoral degrees, alongside 16 first-level master's degrees, 15 professional master's degrees and 77 second-level master's degrees, and it operates four postdoctoral research stations.学校有 6 个一级学科博士学位授权点、2 个博士专业学位授权点与 42 个二级学科博士学位授权点，另有 16 个一级学科硕士学位授权点、15 个硕士专业学位授权点与 77 个二级学科硕士学位授权点，并设 4 个博士后科研流动站。

• Law is a national key discipline at the first level and political science a key discipline of Beijing at the first level, and the university's law discipline is graded A+ in the ministry's discipline evaluation.法学为一级学科国家重点学科，政治学为一级学科北京市重点学科，法学学科在教育部学科评估中获评 A+。

• As of September 2024 the university employed 1,028 full-time teachers, including 336 professors and 392 associate professors, with 301 doctoral supervisors and 816 master's supervisors, and 90 per cent of the full-time teachers held doctorates.截至 2024 年 9 月，学校有专任教师 1,028 人，其中教授 336 人、副教授 392 人，博士生导师 301 人、硕士生导师 816 人，专任教师中博士学位获得者占比达 90%。

• The same figures record 18,246 students in total, comprising 9,992 undergraduates, 6,534 master's students and 1,720 doctoral students.同期全校共有学生 18,246 人，其中本科生 9,992 人、硕士研究生 6,534 人、博士研究生 1,720 人。

• CUPL was among the first Chinese law schools allowed to enrol international students after the country opened to the outside world, and a large share of the earliest foreign students to earn Chinese law degrees graduated here.中国政法大学是中国改革开放后最早可以招收外国留学生的法律院校之一，早期获得中国法学硕士、博士学位的留学生中有相当一部分毕业于此。

• Research is carried out in 11 established research institutes, 10 new-type research institutions and three collaborative innovation centres, among them the Procedural Law Research Institute and the Legal History Research Institute, both key research bases in humanities and social sciences of the Ministry of Education.学校设有 11 个在编科研机构、10 个新型研究机构与 3 个协同创新中心，其中诉讼法学研究院、法律史学研究院均为教育部人文社会科学重点研究基地。

• The Evidence Science Research Institute is a key laboratory of the Ministry of Education, the Research Institute of Rule-of-Law Government is a Beijing philosophy and social sciences research base, and the Institute of Human Rights is a national high-end think tank cultivation unit and a national human rights education and training base.证据科学研究院为教育部重点实验室，法治政府研究院为北京市哲学社会科学研究基地，人权研究院为国家高端智库建设培育单位和国家人权教育与培训基地。

• Two innovation and talent introduction bases under the ministry's 111 Programme support international research cooperation, and the university also runs the China Legal Information Center and the China University of Political Science and Law Press.学校建有 2 个教育部「高等学校学科创新引智计划」（111 计划）创新引智基地，并设有中国法律信息中心与中国政法大学出版社。

• The China-EU School of Law, founded in autumn 2008 in cooperation with the European Union, was the first law school of Sino-foreign cooperative education approved by the Ministry of Education.中欧法学院于 2008 年秋与欧盟合作成立，是第一所获教育部批准的中外合作办法学院。

• The university publishes six academic journals in the legal field, namely the Tribune of Political Science and Law, Comparative Law Studies, the Journal of the China University of Political Science and Law, Evidence Science, Administrative Law Review and Human Rights Studies.学校主办《政法论坛》《比较法研究》《中国政法大学学报》《证据科学》《行政法学研究》《人权研究》六种法学期刊。

• CUPL maintains exchange links with 306 universities, research institutes and international organisations in 58 countries and regions, and sends several hundred students abroad for study or internships each year.学校与 58 个国家和地区的 306 所大学、科研机构及国际组织建立交流合作关系，每年派出数百名学生赴海外学习或实习。

• From 1982 to 1995 the university took part in the China-US Legal Education Exchange Committee, one of the earliest exchanges between Chinese and American law schools, which trained a generation of legal talent for the university.1982 年至 1995 年，学校作为中方代表之一参加「中美法律教育交流委员会」项目，这是中美法律院校交流的早期实践，为学校培养了一批法律人才。

• The university has co-founded three Confucius Institutes, located in the United Kingdom, Romania and Barbados.学校在海外合办 3 所孔子学院，分别位于英国、罗马尼亚与巴巴多斯。

• Teaching and research are organised around law while covering political science, economics, management, literature, history, philosophy, education and the natural sciences, in line with the multidisciplinary profile set out in the university charter.学校以法学为特色和优势，兼及政治学、经济学、管理学、文学、历史学、哲学、教育学与理学等学科，形成章程所确定的文科多学科发展格局。

Campus

• The university has two campuses: the Changping campus at 27 Fuxue Road in Changping District, which is the registered seat of the university and hosts undergraduate education, and the Haidian campus at 25 Xitucheng Road in Haidian District, which hosts graduate education.学校设昌平、海淀两个校区：昌平校区位于昌平区府学路 27 号，为学校法定住所，承担本科生培养，海淀校区位于海淀区西土城路 25 号，承担研究生培养。

• The Changping campus lies at the foot of the Jundu Mountains, whose slopes rise from 400 to 800 metres above sea level and reach 1,439.3 metres at the highest peak, so students joke that theirs is the highest university in Beijing.昌平校区坐落在军都山下，军都山海拔 400 至 800 米，最高峰达 1,439.3 米，北京多数高校地处平原，法大学生因此笑称母校是北京的「最高学府」。

• The Haidian campus on Xueyuan Road has been in use since 1954, and its main building, originally the joint building, was erected by teachers and students together with three dormitory blocks, an auditorium and a dining hall.海淀校区所在的学院路校址自 1954 年启用，主楼即当年的联合楼，与三座宿舍楼、礼堂、膳厅一同由师生协力建成。

• Of the three dormitory blocks built in 1954 on the Haidian campus, the first two housed students and the third housed teachers, and the auditorium and dining hall of the same vintage have become the campus auditorium and the multi-function hall.海淀校区 1954 年建成的三座宿舍楼中，一、二号楼为学生宿舍、三号楼为教师宿舍，同期建成的礼堂与膳厅现为校区礼堂与多功能厅。

• A stone sculpture of an ox breaking new ground, donated by the 1987 cohort, stands at the centre of the Changping campus in memory of the first students who moved to the then suburban site.昌平校区中心立有 87 级校友联名捐赠的「拓荒牛」石刻雕像，纪念首批进驻当时尚属郊区的新校区的学生。

• Campus facilities include the university library, the China Legal Information Center, a university hospital, an auditorium and the editorial offices of the university's academic journals.校园设施包括图书馆、中国法律信息中心、校医院、礼堂以及各学术期刊编辑部。

• The two campuses divide the student body by level of study: undergraduates spend their four years mainly on the Changping campus, while master's and doctoral students concentrate on the Haidian campus in the university district of Haidian.两个校区按培养层次分工：本科生四年主要在昌平校区就读，硕士与博士研究生则集中在海淀学院路高校区的海淀校区学习。

• Beyond Beijing, the university operates a Hainan International Campus through the Hainan International College and the Hainan Free Trade Port Institute of Rule of Law, extending its footprint to the southern island province of Hainan.除北京两校区外，学校还通过海南国际学院与海南自由贸易港法治研究院建设海南国际校园，把办学空间拓展到海南。

Reputation

• CUPL is placed in the 1401+ band of the QS World University Rankings 2027, the tied final segment of the table rather than a single numbered position.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，中国政法大学位于 1401+ 并列区间，这是榜单末段的并列区间而非单独名次。

• It did not enter the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027, the 2026-2027 U.S. News global university ranking, or the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities main table.学校未进入 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名、2026-2027 年度 U.S. News 全球大学榜单，也未进入 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名主榜。

• In the QS World University Rankings by Subject 2024 for law and legal studies, CUPL ranked 71st globally and third among universities in the Chinese mainland, a sharp rise from the 151-200 band of the previous year.在 2024 年 QS 世界大学学科排名的法律与法律研究学科中，学校位列全球第 71 位、中国内地第 3 位，较上一年度的 151–200 位区间大幅提升。

• The university was placed 267th in the QS Asia University Rankings 2025.在 2025 年 QS 亚洲大学排名中，学校位列第 267 位。

• In the ShanghaiRanking Best Chinese Universities Ranking 2026 the university placed 56th nationally and first among political science and law universities in China, and its law discipline took first place in the 2026 China's Best Subject Rankings.在软科 2026 中国大学排名中，学校列全国第 56 位、政法类大学第 1 位，法学学科在软科 2026 中国最好学科排名中位列第 1。

• Over more than seven decades the university has trained more than 200,000 graduates of all levels and taken part in virtually all national legislation since the founding of the People's Republic of China, leading innovation in Chinese legal theory.建校 70 余年来，学校为国家培养了 20 余万名各层次人才，参与了中华人民共和国成立以来几乎所有的国家立法活动，引领国家法学理论的革新。

• Seven of its professors have been named Distinguished Senior Jurists of China, namely Jiang Ping, Chen Guangzhong, Zhang Jinfan, Wu Changzhen, Pan Handian, Ying Songnian and Xu Jie, and five of them, with Li Deshun, serve as lifetime professors of the university.学校有 7 位教授获评「全国杰出资深法学家」，即江平、陈光中、张晋藩、巫昌祯、潘汉典、应松年与徐杰，其中江平、陈光中、张晋藩、李德顺、应松年 5 人为学校终身教授。

• The university charter sets the goal of becoming a world-renowned strong law university that is open, international, multidisciplinary and innovative, and the university describes itself as an academic stronghold in the humanities and social sciences of China.学校章程提出努力办成开放式、国际化、多科性、创新型的世界知名法科强校，并自述为「中国人文社会科学领域的学术重镇」。

• Like most universities of the humanities and social sciences, CUPL counts no Nobel, Turing or Fields laureate among its alumni or faculty, its highest national honour being the title of People's Educator conferred on the tenured professor Zhang Jinfan in 2024.与多数人文社科类高校一样，学校迄今没有诺贝尔奖、图灵奖或菲尔兹奖得主，其最高国家荣誉是 2024 年授予终身教授张晋藩的「人民教育家」国家荣誉称号。

Student life

• The university motto is 厚德、明法、格物、致公 (Houde, Mingfa, Gewu, Zhigong), written into the university charter, which the university renders in English as developing moral education, mastering the law, looking for truth and serving the public.学校校训为「厚德、明法、格物、致公」，已写入学校章程，学校官方英译为「培养品德、掌握法律、追求真理、服务公众」。

• The charter also sets out the university philosophy of building the school on academics, talent, quality, characteristics and the rule of law, and states its mission as managing the affairs of state and spreading law under heaven (经国纬政、法泽天下).章程还提出「学术立校、人才强校、质量兴校、特色办校、依法治校」的办学理念，以「经国纬政、法泽天下」为办学使命。

• The maxim only bow to truth (只向真理低头), associated with the civil law scholar and former president Jiang Ping, is recognised as a core belief of the university and has been quoted repeatedly by successive presidents in official addresses.与民法学家、曾任校长的江平相关联的「只向真理低头」，被认可为法大的核心理念，历任校长在官方致辞中多次强调。

• The university celebrates its anniversary on 16 May, and marked its 70th anniversary on 16 May 2022 with donations from alumni in China and abroad for the celebration.学校以 5 月 16 日为校庆日，2022 年 5 月 16 日迎来建校 70 周年，海内外校友为此发起捐赠支持庆祝活动。

• Student societies operate under the guidance of the Federation of Student Societies and fall into academic, cultural and sports, innovation and entrepreneurship, ideological and political, and public welfare categories, with their work appraised on an annual cycle.学生社团在社团联合会指导下开展活动，分为学术科技、文化体育、创新创业、思想政治与公益志愿等类别，并以年为周期开展社团评优。

• Named societies include the Law Review Society, the Case Study Society, the Guangzheng Debate Association, the Aspiring Lawyers Association, the New Great Wall Self-Improvement Society and the CUPL Goebel street dance club.具名社团包括法律评论社、案例研究会、光政辩论协会、准律师协会、新长城自强社与 CUPL Goebel 街舞社等。

• New students are introduced to the societies through the dormitory-visiting campaign, in which members publicise their clubs room by room, and the hundred-club fair held on the sports ground each autumn.每年秋季开学，各社团通过成员挨个寝室宣传的「刷寝」与在学校操场摆摊的「百团大战」向新生推介自己。

• The university newspaper, the China University of Political Science and Law News, serves the campus community and had reached its 775th issue by 2026.学校出版《中国政法大学报》服务校园师生，至 2026 年已出版至第 775 期。

Notable people

• Qian Duansheng, a political scientist and one of the founders of modern Chinese political science, chaired the preparatory committee and served as the first president of the college from 1952 to 1958.政治学家、中国现代政治学的奠基人之一钱端升任筹备委员会主任委员，1952 年至 1958 年任学院首任院长。

• Liu Fuzhi, the first president of the university from 1983 to 1984, had served as minister of public security and later became procurator-general of the Supreme People's Procuratorate.刘复之于 1983 年至 1984 年任大学首任校长，曾任公安部部长，后任最高人民检察院检察长。

• Zou Yu, president from 1984 to 1988, was minister of justice from 1983 to 1988 and a leading figure in the rebuilding of China's legal and prison administration after 1978.邹瑜于 1984 年至 1988 年任校长，1983 年至 1988 年任司法部部长，是 1978 年后中国司法行政与监狱法治重建的重要人物。

• Jiang Ping, president from 1988 to 1990, is a civil and commercial law scholar, a lifetime professor and a Distinguished Senior Jurist of China who took part in drafting the General Principles of the Civil Law, the Contract Law and the Property Law.江平于 1988 年至 1990 年任校长，是民商法学家、学校终身教授、「全国杰出资深法学家」，曾参与《民法通则》《合同法》《物权法》等法律的起草。

• Xu Xianming, president from 2001 to 2009, proposed the university motto during his tenure and later served as president of Shandong University and deputy procurator-general of the Supreme People's Procuratorate.徐显明于 2001 年至 2009 年任校长，任内主持拟定「厚德、明法、格物、致公」校训，后任山东大学校长、最高人民检察院副检察长。

• Huang Jin, president from 2009 to 2019, is an international law scholar, a winner of the National Ten Outstanding Young Jurists award and a former president of the Chinese Society of Private International Law.黄进于 2009 年至 2019 年任校长，是国际法学家、「全国十大杰出青年法学家」获得者，曾任中国国际私法学会会长。

• Ma Huaide, president from 2019 to 2026, is an administrative law scholar who chaired the Chinese Administrative Law Society and became president of Renmin University of China in November 2025.马怀德于 2019 年至 2026 年任校长，是行政法学家，曾任中国行政法学研究会会长，2025 年 11 月起任中国人民大学校长。

• Lu Chunlong, president since May 2026, is a professor of comparative politics at the School of Political Science and Public Administration and holds a doctorate from Old Dominion University in the United States.卢春龙自 2026 年 5 月起任校长，是政治与公共管理学院比较政治学教授，有美国老领地大学博士学位。

• Zhao Xudong, a professor of company law and one of the first National Ten Outstanding Young Jurists, was appointed the university's Qian Duansheng Distinguished Chair Professor in 2024.赵旭东是公司法学教授、首届「全国十大杰出青年法学家」之一，2024 年获聘学校钱端升特聘讲座教授。

• Zhang Jinfan, a tenured professor and one of the founders of the discipline of Chinese legal history, received the national honorary title of People's Educator in 2024 and is a Distinguished Senior Jurist of China.张晋藩是学校终身教授、中国法制史学科的奠基人之一，2024 年获「人民教育家」国家荣誉称号，并获评「全国杰出资深法学家」。

• Pan Handian, a comparative law scholar and translator, is a Distinguished Senior Jurist of China and a winner of the Lifetime Achievement Award in Translation of the Translators Association of China.潘汉典是比较法学家与翻译家，「全国杰出资深法学家」，获中国翻译协会「翻译文化终身成就奖」。

• Wu Changzhen, a marriage law scholar and Distinguished Senior Jurist of China, took part in drafting the Marriage Law and the Anti-Domestic Violence Law adopted in 2015.巫昌祯是婚姻法学家、「全国杰出资深法学家」，曾参与《婚姻法》与 2015 年《反家庭暴力法》的起草。

• Luo Xiang, a professor of criminal law, was named a Rule of Law Person of the Year for 2020 by China Central Television and is one of the best-known law teachers in China.罗翔是刑法学教授，2020 年获评中央电视台「年度法治人物」，是中国最知名的法学教师之一。

• Lei Jieqiong, a sociologist who served as vice-dean of the college in 1953, and Yan Jingyao, a criminologist and member of the preparatory committee, were among the founding scholars of the institution.1953 年任副教务长的社会学家雷洁琼与筹备委员会委员、犯罪学家严景耀，是学校创建时期的代表性学者。

• Ronald J. Allen, an American scholar of evidence law, has taught at the university as a Changjiang Chair Professor, and Niu Kang, an alumnus who heads the Sangonglvbo training school, donated 700,000 yuan in 2021 for the 70th anniversary celebrations.美国证据法学家罗纳德·J·艾伦受聘学校长江学者讲座教授，校友、三公律博培训学校校长牛康 2021 年为建校 70 周年庆祝活动捐赠 70 万元。