Li Lin (jurist)

Li Lin was born in Wuhua District, Kunming, Yunnan, in November 1955. He initially worked at a medical equipment factory in Yunnan in 1970 and later served in the 11th Army of the Kunming Military Region of the People's Liberation Army from December 1972 to December 1979. From January to August 1980, he worked at the Yunnan Provincial Advisory Office. In September 1980, he enrolled in the law program at Southwest University of Political Science and Law, graduating with a Bachelor of Laws in July 1984.^[2]

In 1987, Li joined the CASS Institute of Law, working in the Department of Jurisprudence, and earned a master's degree in jurisprudence from the CASS Graduate School. He was promoted to assistant researcher in 1990 and received his doctorate in jurisprudence from CASS the same year. He became an associate researcher in 1992. Between August 1993 and March 1995, he conducted postdoctoral research as a visiting scholar at Columbia Law School and the East Asia Institute of Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs.^[3][1]

Li was promoted to full researcher in 1997 and concurrently served as deputy director of the Department of Jurisprudence at the CASS Institute of Law. In 1999, he became assistant director and director of research at the CASS Institutes of Law and Political Science. In 2000, he was selected as a doctoral supervisor in constitutional and administrative law.^[4] He served as deputy editor-in-chief of the journal Chinese Social Sciences in 2001, vice director of the CASS Institute of Law in July 2004, and director of the institute from December 2005 to December 2017. In 2011, he was elected as a member of the Academic Division of CASS.^[3][5]