China University of Political Science and Law was founded in 1952. It is a national key university with distinctive characteristics and advantages, a law school directly under the Ministry of Education, and a university with coordinated development of philosophy, science, economics, management and teaching. It is the national key construction of "2 1 1 project" and "985 engineering advantage discipline innovation platform", and is listed in the first batch of "20 1 1 plan", "excellent legal talent education and training". Known as the "cradle of political and legal talents."

Its predecessor was Beijing University of Political Science and Law, which was formed by the merger of Peking University Law Department, Tsinghua University Politics Department, yenching university Law Department, Politics Department and Fu Jen Catholic University Sociology Department during the adjustment period. 1960 was established as a national key university by the State Council. It was revoked for some reasons during the Cultural Revolution. 1979 reopened for national enrollment. 1983 was renamed "China University of Political Science and Law" under the direct promotion of the Central Committee. The name of the school was inscribed by Comrade Deng Xiaoping. The school is located in Beijing and has two campuses, Fu Xue Road in Changping District and Xueyuan Road in Haidian District. There are no branch schools in any region.

In order to meet the needs of the country and promote the prosperity of the law. Since its birth, China University of Political Science and Law has trained more than 200,000 outstanding talents for the outside world and created a series of important scientific research achievements. As "the most effective assistant of the National People's Congress", he directly participated in almost all the legislative activities of the country, including the first constitution of China, led the reform of China's legal theory and the renewal of legal thoughts, conducted academic exchanges in the field of law on behalf of the country, and made indelible and important contributions to the development of democracy and legal system in China and the in-depth implementation of the basic strategy of "ruling the country according to law".