CASS Law Institute is a national-level legal research institute in China. The Department of Survey and Studies of National Situation of Rule of Law of the Institute has been devoted to long-term empirical scientific study of theoretical and practical issues of the rule of law and produced a series of research results. In recent years, the Department, in close cooperation with China Social Sciences Press, has punished a series of National Think Tank reports and other monographs in the field of the rule of law that have exerted great influence on both academic circle and society in China. The following is a list of these publications:

National Think Tank Reports

1.Assessment Report on the Construction and Application of Version 3.0 of the People’s Court Informatization System (V3.0): from the Perspective of Informatization of Courts in Shandong Province (published in January 2017)

2.Assessment Report on the Construction and Application of Version 3.0 of the People’s Court Informatization System (V3.0): from the Perspective of Informatization of Courts in Shandong Province (published in December 2016)

3.Assessment Report on Transparency of Government Procurement in China in 2016 (published in October 2016)

4.Publication of Annual Reports on the Government Information Disclosure Work in China: An Assessment Report: 2016 (published in June 2016)

5.Third Party Assessment on the Disclosure of Government Information in China in 2015 (published in May 2016)

6.Third Party Evaluation Report on Court Informatization in China in 2015 (published in March 2016)

7.Annual Report on the Transparency of Higher Education in China in 2015 (published in February 2016)

8.Assessment Report on the Achievement of the Objective of Basically Overcoming the Difficulties in the Execution of Judgments: Taking the Intermediate People’s Court of Shenzhen City as an Example (published in January 2016)

9.Analysis of China’s Local Legislative Practice: Taking the Local Legislation in Sichuan Province as the Background (published in September 2015)

10.Third-Party Assessment Report on the Disclosure of Government Information in China in 2014 (published in March 2015)

11.Annual Report on the Transparency of Higher Education in China in 2014 (published in March 2015)

Monographs

1.Judicial Openness: Transformation of Chinese Courts from Obscure Courts to Transparent Courts—a Third Party Assessment of the Practice of Administration of Justice in Sunshine of Courts in Zhejiang Province (published in 2017)

2.Empirical Jurisprudence: Rule of Law Index and Investigation of National Situation of the Rule of Law in China in 2015 (published in September 2016)

3.Local Experience of the Rule of Law in China: Samples from Guangdong Province (published in September 2015)