Chen Chunlong, male, Han nationality, a native of Huanggong City, Hubei Province. He began to work at the Law Institute of Chinese Academy of Science, mainly engaging in research of legal history and jurisprudence, when he graduated from the Law Faculty of Hubei University in 1964. Since then he has held the following positions: research fellow, deputy-director and director of the Department of Jurisprudence of CASS Law Institute; vice-president of the Higher People's Court of Beijing Municipality; Chairman of Compensation Committee; Vice-Chairman of Judge's Association; senior judge; member of the National Committee of the Eighth and Ninth Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference; member of the Beijing Committee of the Eighth Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference; member of the Central Committee of sixth and seventh National Congress of China Democratic National Construction Association; member of the Standing Central Committee and Vice-Chairman of the Legal Affairs Committee of the Seventh National Congress of China Democratic National Construction Association; professor of National Judges College; member of World Congress of the International Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy (IVR); member of the Executive Council of the Research Committee on Jurisprudence of China Law Society; and member of the Executive Council of Chinese Society of French Studies.

Mr. Chen Chunlong has been engaged in the research of legal theory and practical judicial work for many years and published over a dozen monographs and translated works, and over 100 papers both in China and abroad. His main publications including Democratic Politics, the Rule of Law, and Human Rights; Comparative Law; Political Reform and Construction of the Legal System; Theory and Practice of the French Litigation System; Judicial Compensation in China; and Chinese-French and French-Chinese Legal Dictionary. He has won 3 Awards for Outstanding Works in Social Sciences and received special government allowance from the State Council. His suggestion that the Chinese system of legal science should consists of theoretical jurisprudence, historical jurisprudence, applied jurisprudence and frontier jurisprudence has been attached great importance to and accepted by the Chinese law circle; his study and legislative proposals on the legal systems of multi-party coopeation under the leadership of the Communist Party and political consultation was attached great importance to by the Central Committee of the Communist Party and was embodied in the 1993 Constitution.

Between Junly 1994 and July 2000, he had been the Vice-President of he Higher People's Court of Beijing Municipality, mainly in charge of the reform of adjudicative mode, state compensation for unjust, framed-up and wrong cases, training of judges, and expert testimony.

In 2000, at the request of the CASS, Mr. Chen Chunlong left the Higher Court of Beijing Municipality and returned to CASS Law Institute to do research work.