Mr. Jinfan Zhang, born in Shenyang, Liaoning Province in 1930, is a tenured professor and PhD supervisor at China University of Political Science and Law. Since 1983, he has been teaching and doing research at this university. In 1987, he became the academic leader of the state-level key discipline-History of Law, and in 1991 he received special allowance from the State Council. He has published over 30 monographs, among them The Tradition and Modern Transition of Chinese Law and The History of Chinese Legal Civilization (2 volumes on Ancient China and 1 volume on Modern and Contemporary China) are published by Springer, and more than 300 academic papers. He has delivered lectures on law in the United States of America, Japan, Korea, Israel and other countries.