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     Founded in 1950 and located in Beijing, Renmin University of China (RUC) remains best known for excellence in the humanities and social sciences. Renmin Law School stands as one of RUC’s most acclaimed schools. The current Dean of the Law School is Professor Han Dayuan. At present, Renmin Law School educates more than 3,000 students annually with graduate students accounting for approximately 80% of the student body.

     The Law School confers undergraduate (LL.B.) and graduate degrees (LL.D. and LL.M.) in all secondary disciplines of law, including one national first-level key discipline and four national second-level key disciplines. Renmin Law School also offers a Bachelor,s Degree in Law with a concentration in Intellectual Property Rights. Authorized by the State Council of China, the Law School established the nation‘s first post-doctoral research center covering all doctoral subject areas. Renmin Law School‘s 43 research institutes carry-out numerous projects of national and international importance. These research institutes include two Ministry of Education sponsored humanities and social science research centers, the Research Center for Criminal Jurisprudence, the Research Center of Civil & Commercial Jurisprudence, and the RUC Center for Disabled Person’s Law & Legal Services. Renmin Law School’s expansive library houses have more than 300,000 volumes, including over 50,000 foreign language sources. There are over 1,300 Chinese and 3,000 foreign law journals available to students, faculty and visiting scholars.

      Renmin Law School edits and publishes the nation’s leading law journal, the "Jurists, Review", as well as the "RUC Law Review" and the "Chaoyang Law Review". The Law School also publishes an internationally distributed English law journal, "Frontiers of Law in China", which connects an English readership with the swiftly shifting trends that define China‘s contemporary legal landscape. In efforts to make our scholarship more readily available to an increasingly internet-based society, the Law School runs a nationally recognized website entitled "China Civil & Commercial Law".