The College for Criminal Law Science of Beijing Normal University (referred to as the CCLS) is the only substantive academic institution specializing in criminal scientific research in China, established on August 18, 2005. After more than ten years of rapid development, the CCLS enjoys a high reputation in criminal theory and practice circles at home and abroad.

According to the school's new reform plan in 2019, the institutional nature of the reformed CCLS is an "operational institutional scientific research institution", and the newly established Law School operates relatively independently. The school separately allocates various human, financial and material resources for the CCLS required for discipline construction and college development, and independently carries out scientific research, academic postgraduate training, academic exchanges and social services in the name of the CCLS.

The new CCLS adheres to the development goals of distinctive characteristics, first-class domestic and world-renowned, and is committed to consolidating the advantages of traditional criminal disciplines. At the same time, it grasps the frontiers of disciplines, promotes cross-disciplinary research in response to major social needs, continuously improves criminal scientific research capabilities, and produces landmark and internationally influential scientific research results, and strives to provide high-end think tanks in the criminal field, training high-end academic talents, high-end academic exchanges, and for the government, judiciary, enterprises, High-end training in universities, middle schools, and other departments carries out new explorations and makes new contributions.

At present, the CCLS has eight permanent research institutions: the Institute of Criminal Law of China, the Institute of Foreign and Comparative Criminal Law, the Institute of International Criminal Law, the Institute of Criminology, the Institute of Criminal Policy, the Institute of Crime and Correction, the Institute of Criminal Procedure Law, and the Institute of Evidence Law. At the same time, there are many international, provincial and ministerial academic platforms affiliated with the CCLS, becoming an important supporting force for the academic development and discipline construction of the CCLS.

The CCLS has an academic team of 45 people including 27 professors, including 1 distinguished professor of Changjiang Scholars, 2 people selected for the "Ten Million Talents Project" of the Ministry of Personnel, and 2 people selected for the "Top Ten Outstanding Young Jurists" of the country, 1 person was selected for the "Cross-Century Outstanding Talents Training Program" of the Ministry of Education and 4 people were selected for the "New Century Outstanding Talents Training Program". At present, the CCLS has a doctoral degree in criminal law and criminal procedure law, and is engaged in postdoctoral training. In addition to full-time researchers, the CCLS has also hired 49 distinguished professors, 47 members of the Expert Committee on Research and Consulting on Difficult Criminal Issues, and 65 visiting professors or visiting researchers from well-known scholars at home and abroad.

The CCLS is in a leading or first-class position in the country in discipline construction in the fields of criminal law in China, international criminal law, criminal procedure law, criminology and other fields, and has exerted certain influence internationally. Members of the criminal discipline team actively participate in social work and hold various important social part-time jobs: 8 people respectively serve as honorary president, president, vice president or secretary-general of the Chinese Society of Criminal Law, vice president of the Chinese Society of Criminology, vice president of the Chinese Society of Criminal Procedure Law and other leadership positions in national academic groups; 7 people respectively serve as vice chairman, deputy secretary-general of the International Association of Criminal Law, and honorary chairman, chairman, executive vice chairman, and secretary-general of the China Branch. More than 30 team members have served as special consultants of the Supreme People's Court, members of the Expert Advisory Committee of the Supreme People's Procuratorate, deputy heads of business departments (bureaus), deputy prosecutors general of local procuratorates, and members of the Think Tank Committee of the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce.

In terms of scientific research projects, in the past five years, the criminal discipline has applied for and approved more than 80 domestic vertical scientific research projects of various types, including one key project of the national key R & D plan and 19 national social science fund projects (including two major projects of the National Social Science Fund), 6 general projects of the Ministry of Education, and 7 ministerial-level scientific research projects of the Ministry of Justice for the construction of rule of law and legal theory research. In addition, it has also undertaken more than 10 international cooperation projects such as EU-funded projects, Canadian Agency for International Development funded projects, and New York University Law School funded projects.

In terms of academic achievements, in the past five years, 65 monographs, teaching materials, reference books, and translations have been published, more than 30 academic series have been published, and 4 academic monographs have been published abroad. He has published more than a thousand academic papers in newspapers and magazines such as Legal Research, China Law, and Legal Science, including 241 CSSCI papers and 128 CLSCI papers. He has published 55 papers in foreign academic journals, including 9 SSCI papers.

In terms of academic platform construction, on the one hand, the CCLS has five major international and domestic academic platforms: (1) In April 2011, it successfully joined the United Nations Criminal Justice Network and became its 15th national member unit. In 2012, the CCLS became one of its five governing units; (2) In October 2012, it successfully joined the United Nations Alliance of International Anti-Corruption Academies and became its 33rd national member unit; (3) In August 2014, it signed a cooperation agreement with the United Nations Security Council Counter-Terrorism Executive Directorate and became one of its 12 globally selected partners; (4) In February 2019, it became an observer of the United Nations Intergovernmental Group of Experts on Cybercrime; (5) In August 2019, the Minors Procuratorial Research Center of Beijing Normal University was identified by the Supreme People's Procuratorate as a "Minors Procuratorial Research Base" (affiliated with the CCLS) and included in the management of the school's provincial and ministerial scientific research platform. On the other hand, the CCLS has also created the "International Forum on Contemporary Criminal Law", "China Interregional Criminal Law Forum", "Contemporary Criminal Justice Forum", and "High-end Forum on Entrepreneur Criminal Risk Prevention and Control". Since its establishment, it has held more than 60 high-level international and domestic academic conferences; At the same time, the "Criminal Law Theory Collection" (CSSCI Source Collection) with high academic status sponsored by the CCLS has published 53 volumes, "Research on Criminal Law Cases" has published 39 volumes, and "Criminal Law Review" has published more than 30 volumes. More than 140 issues of "Lectures on Criminal Law by Famous Scholars in the Capital" and "Special Forum on Criminal Law in the Capital" have been held.

In terms of external academic exchanges and cooperation, in the past five years, the CCLS has signed formal academic exchange agreements with more than 60 academic institutions in the United States, Canada, Italy, Austria, France, South Korea, as well as Hong Kong and Macao Special Administrative Regions of my country. At the same time, it has also cooperated with international academic partners to carry out a number of international and interregional academic cooperation projects and hosted more than 20 large and medium-sized international conferences.

In terms of talent training, in the past five years, more than 160 master's students, more than 70 doctoral students, and more than 10 postdoctoral researchers majoring in criminal law and criminal litigation have been recruited. The CCLS has taken various measures to comprehensively improve graduate students' scientific research capabilities and social activity capabilities, and has focused on developing graduate students' international academic horizons. In addition to tutors organizing graduate students to participate in national-level scientific research projects, CCLS-level research projects, and participating in academic activities such as the writing of academic works and the translation of foreign works, all master's, doctoral students, and postdoctoral students also have the ability to edit "Capital Youth Criminal Law" and participate in the national Criminal Law Doctoral Forum, temporary training in judicial practice departments, and participating in international conferences with delegations.

In terms of domestic cooperation and social services, since its establishment in 2005, the CCLS has established exchanges and cooperation with 15 business courts of central political and legal leading agencies such as the Supreme People's Court, the Supreme People's Procuratorate, the Ministry of Public Security, and the Ministry of Justice, as well as the Beijing City People's Court, Guangdong Province Higher People's Court, and the People's Procuratorate of the Tibet Autonomous Region.

Especially in the past five years, the main members of the CCLS have directly participated in almost all criminal legislative work of the national legislative organs, as well as the formulation of a large number of judicial interpretations by the country's highest judicial organs, and made important contributions to the creation and revision of national criminal laws and the formation of judicial interpretations. At the same time, it accepted commissions from the national legislative organs, the country's highest judicial organs, and relevant ministries and commissions on more than 30 topics, and submitted more than 30 research and consultation reports to the central political and legal organs and relevant ministries and commissions.