PekingPoliticsandLawSchoolwasfoundedin1949onthebasisofChaoyangUniversity,andthenitwasrenamedChinaUniversityofPoliticalScienceandLawinMayofthesameyear.Thenewunversitywaslocatedintheold"ShippingWarehouse"inDongchengDistractofPeking,whichwasthesiteoftheoldChangyangUniversity.
InFebruary,1950,theformerChinaUniversityofPoliticalScienceandLawandHuabeiUniversitywasmergedintoone,whichistheformalfuoundationofRenminUniversityofChina.DepartmentofLawwasoneoftheeightdepartmentsthatconsisttheearliestthenewuniversity.ThesecondpictureaboveisthegroupphotoofthewholefacultyofLawDepartmentatthattime.
Studentsinlawdepartmentenjoyedarichacademiclife.ThefirstpicturerecordedProfessorHeSijin,sclassin1953.ThesecondpictureistherecordofthediscussionofLaw&Diplomacyteaminthe2ndScienceSymposiumin1951.Thephotointherightrecordedanordinaryclassdiscussionbetweentheteacherandthestudents.
Afterfouryears,thefirststudentsoftheLawDepartmentofRUCfinishedtheirundergradutateeducationin1954.ManyofthembecamethefoundersofthemodernlegaleducationinChinaandmadegreatcontributiontothemodernlegalresearch.
Theyearof1979isanewstartforthedevelopoftheRUClawschool.thepolicyofreformandopeningupandreestablishmentofthecollegeentranceexaminationsgaveRUCLawschoolbetterchancetodevelopitself.Fromthe1970sto1990,newdevelopmentappearedinvariousdisciplineswiththestrongfoundationlaidinthe1950s.
Left:Femalelawstudentsoftheyear1979inRUC
Right:Studentsoftheyear1979participatedintheinternshipinTianjinPeople‘sCourts
Atthebeginningofthe21thcentury,RenminLawSchoolcelebratedits50thbirthdaywiththe"ForumforthePresidentsofthetop100LawSchoolthroughouttheworldin21stcentury"heldintheGreatHallofthePeople.Manyworld-knownlawschoolsincludingHarvardlawschool,YaleLawSchool,StanfordLawSchool,ColumbiaLawSchool,FacultyofLawinCambridgeUniversity,FacultyofLawinOxfordUniversity,FacultyofLawinUniversityofTokyo,FacultyofLawinUniversiteParis1Pantheon-Sorbonne,LawSchoolofHumboldt-UniversitatzuBerlin,HUBerlin,andFacultyoflawinLomonosovMoscowStateUniversityetc,coveringmorethan20countriesfromfivecontinents,gottogetherandhadexchangesanddiscussionsonthemodeofcultivationoflegaltatents,educationalreformsindifferentcountriesandthebilateralcooperationwiththefamouslawschoolsinChinasuchasRenminLawSchool,LawSchoolofPekingUniversity,LawSchoolinTsuinghuaLawSchoolandFudanLawSchool.Itwasundoubtlesslyadistinguishedmeetingofthejurisprudentialcircle,whichshowstheinternationalperspectiveofRenminLawSchoolanditsreputations.
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