China Renmin University, China University of Political Science and Law, Peking University, Tsinghua University, East China University of Political Science and Law, Wuhan University, Southwest University of Political Science and Law, university of international business and economics, Jilin University and Shanghai Jiaotong University.

Civil and commercial law includes civil law and commercial law. Civil law mainly includes property law, creditor's rights law, personal rights law, tort law, intellectual property law, marriage and family law, inheritance law and so on. Commercial law (including commercial subject law and commercial conduct law) mainly includes company law, enterprise law, insurance law, negotiable instrument law, bankruptcy law and maritime law.

Civil law is the basic law and commercial law is the special law. Civil law pays attention to transaction safety, while commercial law pays attention to efficiency. Civil and commercial law is a subject based on civil and commercial law. This major is the doctoral degree awarding point, research direction, research content and training objectives.

This direction is mainly engaged in the research of traditional civil law, including the general theory of civil law, property law, contract law, personality right law, tort law and other legal fields. Civil law is the most basic law in China's market economy, and the teaching and research work in this direction plays an important role in China's legal system construction and market economy development.

After the founding of New China, the Law School of the National People's Congress first set up a major in civil law, compiled the first civil law textbook, and undertook the task of training teachers for many universities in China. Since the resumption of the National People's Congress, teachers in this field have participated in drafting many important laws, such as General Principles of Civil Law, Contract Law and Property Law, and trained a large number of high-quality doctoral students, master students and nearly 1,000 senior judges. This direction has achieved some results in the following aspects.

General principles of civil law. Professor Tong Rou established the status, adjustment object and system of civil law before his death, and these views have always been the mainstream of civil law. On this basis, Professor Wang Liming and others further developed the theory of general principles of civil law and published a series of monographs. The research on the civil code system has been completed and the consultation report has been submitted to the National People's Congress. The research on major and difficult issues in China's Civil Code won the first "Three Hundred" original publishing project (humanities and social sciences).