Since our Reform and Opening-up, the discipline of legal theory in Jilin University has finished more than 60 research programs of national, provincial and ministerial levels and has gained more than 12 million CNY research funds. Among these research programs are 2 key grand National Social Science Fund programs, namely, “research and compilation of textbook of legal science in the theoretical research and construction of Marxism” and the sub-program “on the conception of caring about the interest of the whole ” attached to the program “on the conception of the socialist rule of law”, 5 key National Social Science Fund programs, respectively “China’s reform of political system and the construction of its legal system”, “general comment and criticism of contemporary western legal thoughts and trends”, “law and social development”, “knowledge economy and the innovation of law”, and “China’s legal science in the economic globalization”, 4 common National Social Science Fund programs, including “on the spirit of traditional Chinese law”, “what is justice: studies on contemporary western theories on justice”, “positive studies on local legislation”, etc., 8 Youth Programs by National Social Science Fund, consisting of “comparative study on legal cultures of etiquette”, “study on the interaction between multiple cultures against the backdrop of globalization”, “on the supervision by local People’s Congress Councils”, “humanist understanding of law”, “sex rights and law”, “positive study on legal duties”, “on justice between generations” and “methodological transformation of legal sociology in contemporary America”, 7 key grand programs from Key Research Institute of Humanities and Social Science in Universities approved by the Ministry of Education including “the problems of right and the development of legal philosophy in contemporary China”, “the jurisprudential dimension of modern enterprise system”, “comparative study on western and Chinese legal cultures ”, “on new rights”, “study on neo-liberal legal philosophy”, “on applied legal philosophy” and “judicatory jurisprudence and the reform of judicatory system in contemporary China”, 6 key grand programs by the Ministry of Education, including mainly “towards the era of the rule of law: to strike a balance between public power and private rights”, “positive study on traditional Chinese legal culture”, “strategic study on the reform and development of legal education in the 21st century China”, etc., 11 common programs of the Ministry of Education, consisting mainly of “legal sociology”, “legal sociological study on the mechanism of legislation”, “environmental and biological study on the practice of China’s rule of law”, “several problems concerning the teaching of human rights law in contemporary China”, “on the construction of the legal system in an innovative society”, “development report of philosophy and social sciences in China’s universities 1978-2008 legal science”, etc., 7 important and common programs by the Ministry of Justice: “modern rule of law and modern political parties”, “on the state-sponsored unified judicial test system”, “jurisprudential and institutional study on right remedies”, “human orientation and the development of legal science”, “on legal procedures”, “problems concerning the construction of the rule of law in an innovative society”, 7 programs sponsored by the special fund of the People’s Government of Jilin Province, compromising “information network of the rule of law and research on legal science”, “on the protection of the rights of the disadvantaged”, “social development and the rule of law in Jilin Province”, “the development of knowledge economy and the construction of the legal system in Jilin Province”, etc., 12 common programs sponsored by Jilin Province, involving primarily “on the supervision over the Constitution by local People’s Congress Councils”, “on legal procedures”, etc; and 1 program in “project of research and construction of Marxist theories by the Central Government of China”, namely “the research and compilation of textbooks of legal science in the project of research and construction of Marxist theories”.