Department of Law
The Department of Law of China University of Mining and Technology-Beijing undertakes the disciplinary construction of the law major, a first-class undergraduate major in Beijing, with two top priorities: emphasizing foundational legal education so as to cultivate outstanding legal professionals and identifying three research directions—foreign-related rule of law, rule of law in energy and mining, and rule of law in security—so as to become a cradle for nurturing specialized legal talents.
The department established in September 2003 evolves from the Department of Social Sciences. It targets at promoting the mining industry through the rule of law and ensuring national security by adhering to legal principles. By integrating disciplinary characteristics of the university with legal theories, the department has become a leading team in mining-related legal studies, focusing on the practical and judicial legal issues in mining and safety production.
The department admitted its first cohort of 30 undergraduate law students in 2004 and received approval for a Master of Laws degree authorization point and admitted its first cohort of Master's students in 2014. In its 20 years of history, the department has been cultivating graduates who are now engaged in all sorts of industries and professions nationwide. In 2021, the department was approved as a first-class major construction point in Beijing.
The department now has 21 faculty members and six adjunct professors (including one foreign instructor), of which nine hold doctoral degrees, twelve master’s degrees and five overseas academic background. The faculty includes one professor, four associate professors and five graduate advisors. The department is authorized to confer Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Law, Master of Laws (MA) in Economic Law and professional master’s degree in law. The curriculum of the master’s program features specialized courses in mining and energy law, safety production law, and emergency management law, which aim at cultivating legal talents in safety production and emergency management. The department also focuses on cultivating legal talents in international trade via the first batch of new liberal arts construction projects of the Ministry of Education. The department now leads a number of provincial and ministerial research projects, with over 5 million yuan in research funding.
