Yang Diansheng

Yang Diansheng, born in 1933 in China, is a professor at Peking University Law School and a pioneer of prison law studies in China as well as an expert in criminal investigation. After graduating from the Department of Law at Peking University in 1958, he stayed on to teach there. From 1984 to 1990, he helped establish the Department of Law at Yantai University and served as its first director. He has served as vice president of the China Prison Society and vice president of the Beijing Criminal Investigation Research Association, and he receives a special allowance from the State Council. He is the author of more than twenty works, including Criminal Investigation and Prison Law, and his research spans criminal investigation and prison law, exerting an important influence on teaching and disciplinary development in these fields.