East China Normal University insists on cultivating innovative talents and improving innovative ability as the core, actively promotes interdisciplinary integration and internationalization, and moves towards the goal of "having a number of first-class disciplines, coordinating the development of multiple disciplines, striving to enter the ranks of world-renowned high-level research universities around 2020, and striving to build a world-class university by the middle of this century". The development of law specialty is based on the overall development goal of the school, carefully examining past achievements and opportunities, and further promoting the development of law discipline.

At present, the discipline layout is to run the undergraduate course of law well, prepare the international master of law program on the basis of the two master of law programs of constitutional law, administrative law and economic law, and actively build the first-class discipline of law. We will run a first-class master of laws degree program, rely on the doctoral program in sociology of law, prepare to build a doctoral program in law, and gradually improve the layout of discipline development.