Basic information

CAI Yuanpei, associate professor and master tutor of the School of Criminal Justice, China University of Political Science and Law (CUPL). He is the deputy secretary of the Youth League Committee of CUPL, and a researcher of the Judicial Reform Research Center. Professor CAI holds a Bachelor's degree in Law and Economics from CUPL, a PH.D from Peking University, and a visiting scholar at University of California, Berkeley. He is a member of the Legal Expert Advisory Committee of CUPL, a member of the authoritative legal expert group of Baidu Knows, and a part-time lawyer. Professor CAI’s main research fields are Criminal Procedure Law, Evidence Law, Supervision Law, and judicial system. He offers courses such as Criminal Procedure Law, Evidence Law, Supervision Law, Selected Readings of Supervision Regulations, and Reading Classic Works. He has published more than 20 articles in core journals such as Law Science, Studies in Law and Business, Law and Social Development, and Global Law Review, and has been reprinted in Xinhua Digest, China Social Science Excellence and other digests. Professor CAI has presided over 6 projects such as The National Social Science Fund of China. He has won the honors of "Ten Most Popular Teachers for Undergraduates" (2021) of China University of Political Science and Law, Lecturer of Excellent Professional Courses in Beijing Universities (2021), and Outstanding Moral Education Worker of Beijing Universities (2021). He has been interviewed dozens of times by the CCDI, the NCS, People's Daily Online, CETV, BTV, Guangming Daily, Legal Daily and other media.

Email: caiyuanpei910914@163.com

Education

2009–2013 China University of Political Science and Law Law Bachelor of Law & Economics

2013–2015 Peking University Criminal procedure Juris Scientiae Master

2015–2018 Peking University Criminal procedure Juris Scientiae Doctor

2016–2017 University of California, Berkeley Joint-PH.D candidat

Articles

(1)How Criminal Proceedings Deal with Defending Opinions, Law Science, No.8, 2021.

(2)Procedural Rights of the Duty Counsel from the Perspective of the Substantiation of Legal Aid, Global Law Review, No.2, 2021.

(3)The Reconcilement of Client-centralism and Court-centralism: Professional Ethics of ChineseDefense Lawyer, Law and Social Development, No.4, 2020.

(4)On the forms and limits of court police power, Studies in Law and Business, No.5, 2017.

(5)On the blend of verification and free evaluation of evidence — the loopholes and remedy of verification model, Science of Law, No.3, 2016.

(6)Preliminary Study on the Procedural Motion of Defense Lawyers, Law Science Magazine, No.10, 2020.

(7)Reflection on the Substantive Interpretation under the Protection of Human-rights — An Empirical Study on the Substantive Interpretation of 25 cases, Criminal Science, No.3, 2014.

(8)Research on the Change of Jurisdiction in Criminal Proceedings—Based on Empirical Investigation in Beijing, Singapore and the Soviet Union, Criminal Science, No.12, 2013.

(9)The concept of legal help and doctrinal shaping, Ningxia Social Sciences, No.1, 2021.

(10)From Charge-Defense Negotiation to Judge-Defense Negotiation: Reflection on China’s PleaBargaining System, Journal of Dalian University of Technology(Social Sciences), No.2, 2019.

(11)On the Legalization and Verbalization of Records of Evidence, Social Sciences of Beijing, No.7, 2016.

(12)The Chinese model and its reflection of the declaration of illegality — Based on the confessions illegally obtained, Hubei Social Sciences, No.12, 2016.

(13)The Study of Pretrial-review Transfer System – Based on the New Amendment of Criminal Procedure Law, Social Science in Ningxia, No.4, 2012.14.

(14)The “pilot model” in criminal judicial reform and its future — Take the victim compensation for example, Journal of Yantai University (Philosophy and Social Sciences Edition), No.2, 2016.

(15)On the disciplinary nature and knowledge system of supervision law, China Legal Education Research, No.1, 2021.

(16)The Two Patterns of De-administration of the Arbitration Organizations, Beijing Arbitration Quarterly, No.1, 2015.

(17)Practice and Development of Pretrial Meeting – From the Theoretical Perspective of Plea Bargaining, Journal of Hebei Vocational College of Public Security Police, No.2, 2014.

(18)The subjectivity of standard of proof in criminal cases — the view of the distinction between standards proof and evidence requirements, Journal of Chongqing University of Science and Technology (Social Science Edition) , No.4, 2014.

(19)Transformation from Administrative Evidence to Criminal evidence – Economic Analysis of Criminal Procedure Code Art 52 Paragraph 2, Graduate Law Review, No.6, 2013.

(20)Law: To Choose Law is to Choose Lifelong Learning, Guangming Daily, 7th, June, 2022.

(21)Be Wary of the Cost of "Justice", The Democracy and Law Times, 4th, July, 2019.

(22)The Standards of Proof of Pleaded Guilty cannot be Lower, The Procuratorate Daily, 13th, June, 2016.

Projects Presided

(1)Presided over the 2021 National Social Science Fund Later Funding General Project Research on Criminal Defense-Trial Relationship

(2)Presided over the 2021 Beijing Quality Undergraduate Course project Criminal Procedure Law

(3)Presided over the 2019 China University of Political Science and Law Scientific Research and Innovation Youth Project Research on Criminal Defense and Trial Relationship

(4)Presided over the 2019 China University of Political Science and Law Course Ideological and Political Key Project Criminal Procedure Law

(5)Presided over the 2020 China University of Political Science and Law Industry-University-Research Project Research on the Ideological and Political Training Model of Litigation Law Postgraduate Course Oriented to Serving the Construction of the Capital

(6)Preside over the 2020 online rule of law theory research project The Application and Regulation of Artificial Intelligence in Fact Determination.

In addition, professor CAI has participated in more than ten projects such as the National Social Science Fund of China, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Justice, the Beijing Social Science Fund, the Supreme People's Court, the Supreme People's Procuratorate, and the China Law Society.

Honors

2021 the "Top Ten Most Popular Teachers for Undergraduates" by China University of Political Science and Law

2021 the Outstanding Moral Education Worker in Beijing Universities

2021 the title of Beijing high-quality undergraduate course lecturer

2022 the person in charge of the high-quality undergraduate teaching plan of Beijing universities

2021 the Outstanding Party Member of China University of Political Science and Law

2021 the Excellent Teaching Award of China University of Political Science and Law

2021 "Friends of Youth" by the "May Fourth" of China University of Political Science and Law

2020 the outstanding instructor of Beijing undergraduate graduation thesis

2020 the second prize of the Supreme People's Procuratorate's joint essay competition for "Theory and Practice of Confessing Guilt, Accepting Punishment and Leniency"

2020 the second prize of the joint essay competition of "Four Major Procuratorial Basic Theory and Practice Operation" of the National Prosecutors College

2018 PKU Law School JINGJIANG Scholar

2017 the third prize of the 12th China Legal Youth Forum

2016 the third prize of the 10th China Jurists Forum

In addition, during his master's and doctoral studies, he has won many honorary awards such as Principal Scholarship, Academic Scholarship, Academic Innovation Award, and Top 10 Academic Stars.

Social Services

(1)Set up a free online course Criminal Procedure Law on the Chinese University MOOC, which is open to the whole society, and the number of course candidates has reached more than 20,000.

(2) Participate in dozens of academic seminars held by the Supreme People's Court, the Supreme People's Procuratorate, the China Law Society, Peking University, Renmin University of China, Beijing Normal University, University of International Business and Economics, China University of Political Science and Law, Southwest University of Political Science and Law, East China University of Political Science and Law, etc., and make keynote reports or talks.

(3)Accepted more than ten interviews with the CCDI, the NCS, People's Daily Online, CETV, BTV, Guangming Daily, Legal Daily and other media.

(4) He has given part-time lectures for Renmin University of China, Minzu University of China and other colleges and universities. He has also given lectures for more than 10 times for Beijing Municipal legal inspection units, legal affairs departments of central enterprises, disciplinary inspection and supervision departments, law firms and other units.

(5)He has put forward expert advice and suggestions to the legislature for several times on such laws and regulations as Oversight Officials Law, Law on Administrative Discipline for Public Officials, Regulation on the Implementation of the Oversight Law, and the Regulations on the Implementation of the Counterterrorism Law of Beijing.

(6)As a part-time lawyer, provide legal services such as criminal defense and representation, and compliance of enterprises involved in the case.