In 1994, the former Ministry of Chemical Industry authorized Beijing College of Chemical Technology to initiate the major of law. Thus, in 1995 the former Department of Social Sciences has been approved to set up the major of economic law, and set up the teaching and research section of economic law when the enrollment of undergraduates began. In 1999, the major of economic law was renamed the major of law, and the section was renamed the faculty of law in College of Humanities and Law of Beijing University of Chemical Technology (BUCT). In June 2002, the major was confirmed as the model during the Tenth Five-year Plan of BUCT. And in 2012 and 2019 respectively, the major was voted the municipal model and first-rate in Beijing.
In 2006, the permission of masters’ degree in civil and commercial law of legal faculty was authorized by the Ministry of Education. In 2010, the Department of Law has been granted the right to grant master's degree in first-class discipline of law. At present, the discipline of law consists of five sub-directions of law, namely, Jurisprudence, Civil and Commercial Law, Economic Law, Intellectual Property Law, and Environmental and Resources Protection Law.In 2019, the Department of Law has been granted the right to confer juris master degree of law in first-level discipline. including three sub-directions,Technology Transfer and Intellectual Property Law, Labor Protection and Security Management Act and Business Environment and Enterprise Development Law.
The Department of Law aims to cultivate multi-subject high-level personnel and has a high-quality faculty. Our faculty has 45 teachers, staff members and lab workers. Among the 27 teachers are 6 professors, 1 professor trainee and 14 associate professors. 78% of the teachers have senior titles, 55% have experience of overseas study and 92% are PhDs. Through the endeavors of our faculty, in recent years, we have 2 university honored teachers, 5 university talented youth and 5 honored class teachers. In addition, the faculty have engaged 11 specialists from substantive Departments such as Supreme People’s Court as part-time professors.
Over the past 20 years, the department has trained a large number of high-quality talents for society, such as Chen Kai, the first Top Ten Young Lawyer in Beijing, Hu Kun, a professor at Northwest University, Lou Aihua, an associate professor at Suzhou University, Wang Xun, a Top Ten counselor in Beijing, Feng Xiaoguang, a judge of Dongcheng District People's Court of Beijing Municipality, and a number of outstanding representatives. Among the on-campus students, Yeretorriken Badayi, the winner of the 14th Annual Figure of Chinese college students, and Meng Junhong, the National Aerobics champion, and a group of talents are outstanding representatives.
The department attaches great importance to the all-round development of students, pay attention to cultivating students' innovative ability, practical ability and professionalism, and constantly expand the practice bases. At present, 10 off-campus practice bases have been built, including Chaoyang District People's court of Beijing Municipality, Xicheng District People's court of Beijing Municipality, Dongcheng District People's court of Beijing Municipality and Changping District New-Era-Civilization practice base of Beijing Municipality. Students are organized to practice at the bases every summer holiday.
The department attaches importance to training and funding students to participate in various discipline competitions and have achieved excellent results. In the past five years, the law students participated in the Beijing University Student Moot Court Competition and won the first prize for three consecutive years from 2016 to 2018; In 2019, law students participated in the 12th BFSU-Wan Hui Da Cup Intellectual Property Moot Court Competition (full English) for the first time, and won the third place, the Best Memorandum award and the Best Oralist. In 2020, law students participated in the FDI Moot Shenzhen for the first time, and won the third prize.
