Recently, the General Office of the Ministry of Education released the List of the First Batch of Philosophy and Social Sciences Laboratories, including pilot labs and cultivation labs. The Laboratory of Data on the Rule of Law set up by China University of Political Science and Law (CUPL) was approved as one of the first pilot laboratories. The approval is a milestone for the scientific research of CUPL.
Focusing on the academic frontiers in the digital era, CUPL Laboratory of Data on the Rule of Law would serve the national strategy of building digital economy, digital society and digital government, promote the integration of law and other disciplines, and create new paradigms for legal researches. The pilot lab would also make full use of modern information technologies and advanced experimental apparatus to carry out strategic, forward-looking and practical studies. The lab would explore new ways to develop philosophy and social sciences with Chinese characteristics so as to modernize legal researches and advance major legal theories and practical issues relevant to the rule of law in the digital era.
