Zhang Wenxian 1951- , Ph. D. of Philosophy, Professor of Law, Supervisor of Ph. D. Candidates.
    Prof. Zhang is director of the Society of Jurisprudence Research, JRC the National Key Research Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences by the Ministry of Education, leading scholar of the national teaching team of JRC, member of the Committee of Academic Degrees of the State Council, member of the Fifth Appraisal Group of Legal Science, vice president of Chinese Law Society CLS, Standing vice president of the Society of Legal Education a branch of the CLS, counselor of the Society of Jurisprudence Research, member of the Coordination Committee of China’s United National Judicial Examination, director of the Guidance Commission on Legal Education of Law Schools under the Ministry of Education, member of the Committee of Social Science convenor of the Department of Legal Science of the Ministry of Education, vice director of Committee of Experts on Disciplinary Development and Mounting of Majors of the Ministry of Education, convenor of the Group of Legal Science in the Sixth Expert Group of the National Post-Doctor Regulatory Commission, vice director of the Team of Examination and Comment on Legal Science of The National Philosophy and Social Sciences Fund, representative of the 17th National Congress of the CPC, representative of the 11th National People’s Congress, guest professor of Peking University, Renmin University of China, Nanjing University, Xiamen University, etc., and member of the Professor Committee of Guanghua Law School, Zhejiang University. He was the member of the executive council of the IVR and he is now the Chief Justice and President of Jilin Advanced People’s Court.
    The main research fields of Prof. Zhang consist of jurisprudence, contemporary western legal philosophy, legal sociology and law and politics, with as his main focus jurisprudence and contemporary western legal philosophy. Since the year 1986, he has presided over 5 key programs in the National Project of Philosophy and Social Sciences in 5 Five-year Plans, namely, “reform of China’s political system and the construction of law” key program of the 7th Five-year Plan, “general review and criticism of contemporary western legal thoughts” key program of the 8th Five-year Plan, “law and social development” key program of the 9th Five-year Plan, “knowledge economy and the innovation of law” key program in the 10th Five-year Plan, and “textbook of jurisprudence in the theoretical research and construction of Marxism” key program in the 11th Five-year Plan. He presided over 1 program “political procedural law”supported by the Fund for Excellent Young University Teachers of the State Education Commission of China, and participated in 3 programs supported by China’s Social Science Fund and 1 program by Fund for Ph. D. Programs of the State Education Commission of China. He masterminded the drafting of the plan for research in humanities and social sciences by the State Commission of Education of China the Ministry of Education for the 8th, 9th, 10th and 11th Five-year Plans, and he was responsible for the composition of the volume of law of the development report of philosophy and social sciences in colleges and universities in China. He participated in the presiding of 2 key programs of the Ministry of Education, namely “theory and practice of the socialist rule of law in China” and “strategic research on the reform and development of China’s legal science in the 21st century”, and he was also in charge of 2 important programs for the National Key Research Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences by the Ministry of Education. He is the author of more than 10 monographs and textbooks of national level and they mainly consist of On Basic Categories of Legal Science, Categorical Research on Legal Philosophy, Contemporary Western Legal Philosophy, Studies on the Trends of Thought of Western Legal Philosophy in the 20th Century, Jurisprudence: Marxist Theory, Methods and points of Law, and Jurisprudence, national key textbook of the 9th, 10th and 11th Five-year Plans, “quality course book for colleges and universities by the Ministry of Education” and he has published 191 pieces of academic papers on Social Sciences in China, Chinese Legal Science, CASS Journal of Law, etc. and his representative papers include “China’s Only Way to the Rule of Law”, “Market Economy and the Spirit of Modern Law”, “Market Economy and the Reform and Renovation of Jurisprudence”, “On Transformation of the Paradigms of China’s Legal Philosophy”, “Constructing the Legal Mechanism of Socialist Harmonious Society”, etc.
    Owing to his great achievements in teaching as well as in scientific researches, Prof. Zhang was awarded more than 30 prizes of national, provincial and ministerial levels, among which are 5 National Awards for Teaching Achievements 2 first prizes and 3 second prizes, 1 National Award for Excellent Textbooks for Colleges and Universities first prize, and 3 Awards for Textbook and Excellent Research Achievements of Law by the Ministry of Justice all of them are first prizes. The year 1987 witnessed the granting of Prof. Zhang Excellent Teacher of Jilin Province, he was ratified as National Young Scholar with Outstanding Contributions by the Ministry of Personnel in the year 1994, in 1997 he was enrolled in the Trans-Century Training Program Foundation for the Talents of Humanities and Social Science by the State Education Commission, in 1998 he was further selected as the first series of Excellent Experts of Jilin Province and in 2004 he was ratified as the Chief Expert convenor of the “Program Team of Textbooks for Jurisprudence in the Research and Construction of Marxist Theory”.
 

    Du Yanlin 1974- , Ph. D. of Law, Associate Professor of Law, Supervisor of JM Candidates
Associate Professor Du Graduated from Law School, Jilin University. He got his Bachelor’s degree in 1996, Master’s degree in 1999 and Doctor’s degree in 2003. He is now a postdoctor of economics in Jilin University. He started working in Law School, Jilin University in the year 1999, was promoted as lecturer in the year 2001 and was further promoted as associate professor and supervisor of JM candidates in the year 2004. He is currently vice director of JRC the National Key Research Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences by the Ministry of Education, director of the Society of Jurisprudence Research of CLS, and secretary and contact person of the “Program of Research and Construction of Marxist Theory”. His research focuses primarily on jurisprudence, legal sociology and legal philosophy. He has published over 20 pieces of academic papers and many of them are excerpted in full text by authoritative digests, thus enjoying sound academic reputation. He has published 1 academic monograph Humanistic Interpretation of Law monograph, commented and introduced by China Academic Annals, Excellent Dissertation for Ph. D. Degree of Jilin Province and he has also participated in the compilation of 4 textbooks. His representative papers consist of “The Postmodern Method and the Turn of the Study of Law”, “China’s Legality on the Way of Modernization”, “Outline of Legal Humanistic Education”, “On the Present and Ultimate Concern of the Modernization of legal System in China”, “Modernization of Law: Human Orientation”, “Humanistic Interpretation of Classic Natural Law”, “Institutional Ethics and Regulation of the Harmonious Society”, “Conceptual Analysis of China’s Legal Science”, “The Rule of Law for A Harmonious Society”, “Who Will Be Responsible for the Limits of Equality”, etc. and he was awarded 4 prizes for his achievements. Since the year 2001, he has assumed and participated in 10 research programs including National Social Science Fund program, key program of Research on Humanities and Social Sciences by the Ministry of Education, and program by the Ministry of Justice. He is now presiding over the program “human orientation and the development of law” Youth Program of the Ministry of Justice.