Wang Zhiyuan, male, born in Weifang, Shandong Province in 1977, is a professor, a doctoral supervisor, and the Vice Dean of the School of Criminal Justice of China University of Political Science and Law. He is also the Vice-chairman of the Association of Criminal Law of the China Law Society, Executive Director of the Corporate Compliance Prosecution Research Base of China University of Political Science and Law, Executive Director of the Cyber and Information Law Society of the China Law Society, Deputy Secretary General of the Chinese Society of Criminology, Head of the Professional Committee of Crime Victimology of the Chinese Society of Criminology, Legal Counsel of the State Drug Administration, Expert Advisory Member of the Third Branch of People's Procuratorate of Beijing Municipal, Expert Advisory Member of the Xinjiang Autonomous Region Procuratorate, and Expert Advisory Member of the People’s Procuratorate of Guangxi Autonomous Region.
Teaching and research areas: criminal law, criminology, criminal policy.
I. Personal Information
Professor Wang has been awarded the degree of Bachelor of Law by Lanzhou University in 1999, the degree of Master of Law by Jilin University in 2002 and the degree of Doctor of Law by Jilin University in 2005, respectively. He joined Jilin University for teaching in 2002 and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2008. During the period from 2010 to 2011, he went to Pennsylvania to be a visiting scholar in the United States. In 2011, he was promoted to Professor, and then was selected as the doctoral supervisor in 2012. In 2016, he served as the Assistance to the Dean of Law School of Jilin University. Later, he was transferred to China University of Political Science and Law in November 2017. Now, he is honored as a professor and doctoral supervisor in the School of Criminal Justice. He has published more than 100 academic papers and 10 books, including the following representative books: "From "corroboration" to "argumentation": a critique of the traditional thinking of conviction in China", "Curbing heavy penalties: starting from legislative techniques", "The roots and expansion of the complicity system: from "intersubjective" to "unilateral", etc. Over the past five years, he has presided over eight provincial, ministerial-level and national research projects and three university-level horizontal research projects. He has been granted the second prize in the National Award for Outstanding Academic Works in Criminal Law (category of monographs,1984-2014), the second prize in the 11th Jilin Province Outstanding Social Science Achievement Award (category of thesis), and the first prize in the Jilin Province Outstanding Legal Achievement Award (category of thesis), etc.
II. Research Introduction
(i) Academic papers
Professor Wang has published over 100 academic papers in journals and newspaper anthologies, with representative papers including:
1. Imputed Criminal Liability and the Split of the Criminal liability in a Business Organization: A Perspective from Corporate Compliance Reform, Comparative Law Studies, no.5, 2022.
2. The Definition of Legal Interests Protected through the Criminalization of Trade Secret Infrigement as Order and its Doctrinal Development, Politics and Law, no.6, 2021.
3. The Challenges and Countermeasures of the Network Intellectual Property Crime - On the Essence of the Crime of Intellectual Property, Law Forum, no.5, 2020.
4. The Core of the Trial-Center Litigation Mode: Evaluation Centrism, Legal Science (Journal of Northwest University of Political Science and Law), no.4, 2020. (Reprinted in full by China Social Science Excellence - Litigation Law)
5. On the "Over-typing" of Crimes in our Criminal Law, Law Review, no.2, 2018.
6. The Meaning of Evaluative Facts in the Assignment of Criminal Responsibility - A Case Study of the Crime Construction Conundrum of Causal Freedom Acts, Legal Science, no.2, 2017.
7. Between "Public Interest" and "Private Right": Rethinking on Criminal Illegality Cognition Theory, The Jurist, no.1, 2015. (Reprinted in full by China Social Science Excellence - Criminal Law)
8. The "Intersubjective" and "Unilateral" in Japanese and German Complicity System: An Outside Perspective Scan on the Logic of our Complicity System, Legal Science, vol. 6, 2013. (Reprinted in full by China Social Science Excellence - Criminal Law)
9. The Logical Contradiction of the Complicity System in China - On the Practical Treatment Scheme of Abetting and Aiding Suicide, Law Review, no.5, 2011.
10. Facts and Norms: Reconsideration of Traditional Methodology Criminal Legislation, Legal System and Social Development, no.1, 2011. (Reprinted in full by China Social Science Excellence - Criminal Law)
11. The Problem of Confirming the Nature of Joint Subjects Status and the Critic of its Premise, Legal Science, no.2, 2010.
12. Rethinking on the Logical Dilemma of the Abettor System in China, Politics and Law, no.2, 2008.
13. Rethinking on the Embarrassment of the One-sided Complicity Theory under the Current Complicity System in China, Law Review, no.6, 2006.
14. Comment on the Crime Control Strategy Vision of the Criminal Law Amendment (IX), Contemporary Jurisprudence, no.1, 2016. (Reprinted in full by China Social Science Excellence - Criminal Law)
15. Study on the Model of Distinguished System of Complicity, Contemporary Jurisprudence, no.5, 2009. (Reprinted in full by China Social Science Excellence - Criminal Law)
(ii) Academic books
Professor Wang has published four individual books, three major co-authored books, five major edited books, three translated books, and nearly ten co-edited textbooks. Representative publications include:
1. Curbing Heavy Penalties: Starting with Legislative Techniques, China University of Political Science and Law Press. (2020)
2. Case Study Guide in Criminal Law, China University of Political Science and Law Press. (edition,2019)
3. Penalties - Communication and Community, China University of Political Science and Law Press. (translation, 2018)
4. Criminal Liability for Imputation, China Intellectual Property Press. (translation, 2016)
5. From "Corroboration" to "Argumentation": A Critique of the Traditional Thinking of Conviction in China, Law Press. (2016)
6. The Roots and Expansion of the Complicity System: From "Intersubjective" to "Unilateral", Law Press. (2011)
7. Deconstruction and Structure of the Crime Composition, Law Press. (2010)
8. General Principles of Criminal Law, General Explanation of Conviction and Sentencing Circumstances, People's Court Press. (2006)
9. Principles of Crime Establishment Theory - A Study of Precedence, China Founder Press. (2005)
(iii) Research projects
Professor Wang has presided over or participated in nearly 20 scientific research projects above the provincial and ministerial level, mainly including:
1. 2022 National Social Science Foundation Key Project: Research on the modernization of criminal policy oriented to "common construction, common governance and sharing".
2. 2021 Beijing Social Science Foundation General Project: Research on the path of criminal law regulation of new types of illegal acts in the capital market.
3. 2021 Supreme People's Procuratorate Procuratorial Applied Theory Research Project: Research on the decrease in pretrial detention rate of criminal crime cases by grass-roots procuratorate.
4. 2020 National Social Science Foundation Key Project: Research on improving restorative treatment measures on Criminals (Confidential).
5. 2020 Ministerial-level Project of the China Law Society: Research on the realization of criminal justice in the light of General Secretary Xi Jinping's new concept, new ideas and new strategies on the comprehensive rule of law.
6. 2016 National Social Science Foundation General Project: Research on the function of corroboration of criminal law norms and its realization principles in the context of the rule of law.
7. 2016 Central Committee of the Youth League Youth Credit System Construction Research Project: Cultivation on normative awareness and credit of youth - with the objective of constructing an evaluation index system and specific cultivation measures on youth normative awareness.
8. 2016 Ministry of Justice Project: Roots and expansion of the complicity system.
9. 2013 National Social Science Foundation Key Project: Research on penal system and structural reform.
10. 2009 National Social Science Foundation General Project: Contemporary transformation in criminalization thinking and its impact.
11. 2009 Jilin Provincial Social Science Planning Project: Research on sanctioning and correction mechanism for minors breaking laws- research based on judicial practice in Jilin province".
12. 2008 Ministry of Education Planning Fund Project: Curbing heavy penalties -- starting from legal technology.
13. 2003 National Social Science Foundation General Project: Deconstruction and structure of the theory of criminal composition.
III. Honours Introduction
The major honours Professor Wang has been granted include:
2022, China University of Political Science and Law Outstanding Postgraduate Tutor;
2021, China University of Political Science and Law "Qian Dansheng Scholar";
2021, Master Teacher of Curriculum Civics (Vocational Education) in universities in Beijing;
2020, "Young Legal Talent of China Law Society" recommended by Criminal Law Society of the China Law Society;
2020, Outstanding supervisor of excellent undergraduate graduation design (thesis) for general universities in Beijing;
2016,"Top Ten Outstanding Youths of Jilin Province";
2016, "Ten Outstanding Young and Middle-aged Jurists of Jilin Province"(the second term);
2016, Jilin Province Law Society "Advanced Individual";
2016, Jilin University "Outstanding Communist Party Member";
2016, Silver Award in the Third Youth Volunteer Service Project Competition.
