East China University of Political Science and Law (formerly "East China University of Political Science and Law") is the first batch of higher political science and law institutions established in New China. 1In June, 952, with the approval of the East China Military Commission, the law departments, political departments and social departments of nine universities, including St. John's University, Fudan University and Nanjing University, were merged to form East China University of Political Science and Law. Later, for various reasons, the school was merged into Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences1958; 1963 rebuilt, enrolled students the following year; 1966 stopped enrollment, and 1972 officially cancelled enrollment. 1March, 979, with the approval of the State Council, the school resumed classes for the second time. In March 2007, with the approval of the Ministry of Education, the school was officially renamed East China University of Political Science and Law. The school used to be a university directly under the Ministry of Justice, but now it is a university managed by Shanghai. Professor Du Zhichun, Party Secretary, and Professor He, President.
The school has two campuses, Changning and Songjiang, covering an area of 1300 mu. There are more than 23,000 students and nearly 1400 faculty members. The school has 16 colleges (departments), and now has the right to award doctoral and master's degrees in first-class disciplines of law, as well as the right to award master's degrees in first-class disciplines of political science, Marxist theory, public management and applied economics. There are doctor of law 10, 25 masters, 23 undergraduate majors and postdoctoral mobile stations. The legal history is a national key discipline, economic law and criminal law are key disciplines in Shanghai, the Institute of Foreign Law and Comparative Law is a key research base of humanities and social sciences in Shanghai universities, and the Research Center of International Law and Comparative Law is a high-level characteristic research project in Shanghai universities. In 2002 and 2008, the undergraduate teaching level of the Ministry of Education was evaluated as excellent. The undergraduate teaching team of legal history and economic law is a national-level teaching team, the foreign legal history, Chinese legal history, economic law and judicial expertise are national-level excellent courses, the comprehensive experimental teaching center of law is a national-level experimental teaching demonstration center, law and investigation are the construction points of colleges and universities with characteristics of the Ministry of Education, and the "open international legal talent training mode innovation experimental area" is a construction project of the Ministry of Education; The undergraduate teaching teams of criminal law, financial law and criminal procedure law are municipal-level teaching teams, the courses of international economic law and so on 16 are municipal-level excellent courses, intellectual property is the construction point of Shanghai's characteristic majors, and the majors of law, politics, investigation, intellectual property and "innovative project of training international financial and shipping legal talents" are the highland projects of Shanghai's undergraduate education.
The school publishes core legal periodicals such as Law, Journal of East China University of Political Science and Law, Crime Research, Juvenile Delinquency, etc. It has more than 90 scientific research institutions such as the Research Center of International and Comparative Law, Shanghai Institute of Comprehensive Social Governance and Judicial Appraisal Center, and has established long-term cooperative relations with more than 80 universities and scientific research institutions at home and abroad. The library has a collection of10.8 million volumes and more than 0.5 million kinds of Chinese and foreign newspapers and periodicals. The school is a model school run by the Ministry of Education according to law, a national model school for standardization of spoken and written languages, a civilized unit in Shanghai and a garden unit in Shanghai. Songjiang Campus is a national property management demonstration park. Over the years, the school has adhered to the principle of "learning from practice and respecting the law"
Cultivate and carry forward the spirit of "rise in adversity, forge ahead in hardship and excel in glory", and now it has developed into a multidisciplinary university with distinctive school-running characteristics in economics, management, literature and science, and is known as "the Oriental Pearl of legal education". Standing at a new starting point, the school will further implement the school-running concept of "people-oriented, governing the school according to law, quality first and developing the school with characteristics", take teaching as the center, talent training as the foundation, discipline construction as the leader, and the construction of high-quality teachers as the guarantee, and gradually build a high-level teaching and research-oriented multidisciplinary university with the emphasis on law, politics, economy and management and the coordinated development of multiple disciplines, and cultivate more applied and compound types.