College for Criminal Law Science of Beijing Normal University

College for Criminal Law Science (CCLS) of Beijing Normal University (BNU) is established to promote the further development of the criminal law science in China, aiming at building a modern national leading academic institution specialized in criminal law science and a key base offering consultation services for criminal legislation and criminal justice, parallel to the famous international academic organs of criminal law science. In order to reach this destination, we are engaged in (1) the institutional innovation by establishing the first and also, at present, the only modern, independent, comprehensive academic research body specialized in criminal law science and the base for training higher-level creative professionals in China,(2) the breakthrough of the institutional scale through setting up six sub-institutes covering all branches of criminal law science and several special institutes enabling the integration of all branches, and organizing a high-quality academic team of a galaxy of talents with reasonable structure and innovative spirit, (3) the transform of the mind in carrying out the mission of seeking for development in a harmonious, scientific, innovative, strategic and striving way.

Modern society of rule by law is the common pursuit of mankind, and the rule by criminal law is an important aspect of modern rule by law. We are very lucky to have the academic study of the criminal law as our career in an era of constructing a civilization of rule by law in all aspects, and shall regard the development of criminal law science as our mission. We will work hard hand in hand with colleagues of the domestic and international circle of criminal law and spare no efforts to promote the prosperity of criminal law science and to push forward the progress of the rule by criminal law.