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China University of Politics and Law (ECUPL) is one of
the first group of higher learning institutions of politics
and law established by the new People's Republic of China
and it used to be one of the higher learning institutions
of the Ministry of Justice of PRC. It is now a university
jointly administered by the Ministry of Justice and local
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with the local government enjoying
the priority of administration. Through the efforts of
several generations, ECUPL has gradually developed into
a multidisciplinary university of economics, management,
finance, foreign languages, etc. with focus on law.
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ECUPL now
has two campuses respectively in Changning District and
Songjiang District, covering an area of 1,064 mu and a
total building area of 240,000 square meters. At present,
ECUPL has four LLD programs, i.e. legal historiography,
criminal jurisprudence, economic jurisprudence, and international
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of law, i.e. theories of law,
legal historiography, constitutional jurisprudence and
administrative jurisprudence, criminal jurisprudence,
civil and commercial jurisprudence, procedural law, economic
jurisprudence,international jurisprudence, environment
and resources protection jurisprudence and one LLM program
of professional law and on-the-job students are accepted
to pursue doctor and master degrees. ECUPL has 22 majors
for bachelors, i.e. law, economics reconnaissance study,
finance, administration, English, Japanese, international
business and trade, sociology, public security labour
and social security, frontier defence management, politics
and administration, journalism, public affairs administration,
accounting and intellectual property, information science
and technology, business administration, cultural industry
management, Chinese literature, social work, among which
the law major offers undergraduate programs intended for
a second bachelor degree in law. International economic
law and history of law are the key subjects assigned by
the Ministry of Justice, and the subject of law is the
key subject by the local government. The university has
four journals, named, Law, Studies of Crime, Issues of
Juvenile delinquency, and the Journal of East China University
of Politics and Law. It also has more than 30 research
institutions, studying ancient Chinese legal documents,
juvenile delinquency and so on. The library in the university
has a collection of books more than 600,000 volumes and
has over 1,200 Chinese and foreign journals and magazines.
ECUPL has established cooperative relationship with more
than 100 overseas colleges and universities, research
institutions and legal institutions in the country. There
are about 800 faculty members, among whom more than 400
are teaching and research staff and more than 160 are
professors or associate professors, and over 10,000 students.
It is also a Shanghai Model Unit and Shanghai Garden Unit
and its architecture on campus receives special protection
from the government.
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For
the last fifty years, ECUPL has adhered to the party's
policies on education, struck to the principle of "Behave
sincerely and learn thirstily; revere virtues and respect
laws." It bases herself in Shanghai, faces east China
and radiates the whole nation and has gradually developed
into a higher learning institution with abundant teaching
staff, distinct
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operating features, high teaching
quality, advanced academic level, outstanding academic
achievements, frequent operations and exchanges and beautiful
campus. ECUPL has become an "oriental pearl in the
law education", which makes a great contribution
to the socialistic legal construction and modernization
construction by bringing up more than 40,000 high-level
talents of law for the party and the country.
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