Talent, personality and unique experience made him the first scholar in China to publicly state that the death penalty should be abolished immediately. Looking back, Qiu Xinglong is not complacent about what others see as success, nor does he repent for what others see as mistakes. "Be your own person, walk your own way, do your own thing, think your own problem," Qiu Xinglong, in the crowd, in the academic world, this is how I do my own thing.
What are the legendary experiences of Prof. Qiu Xinglong, the 54-year-old "genius" of law?
Qiu Xinglong studied at the Southwest University of Political Science and Law in 1979-1986, received a bachelor's degree in law, master's degree in law, 1986-1989 at the Renmin University of China, the Department of criminal law doctoral students, in 2000 received a doctorate degree in law.
Since 1998, he has taught at Southwest University of Political Science and Law, Xiangtan University, Hunan Normal University, Xiamen University and Hunan University, and has served as Dean of the School of Law of Xiangtan University, Director of the Research Center for Criminal Law Science of Hunan University, Vice President of Hunan Law Society, and Director of the Criminal Law Research Society of the Chinese Law Society.
In June 2016, Qiu Xinglong was transferred to the Law School of Hunan Normal University, where he is a Xiaoxiang Scholar Distinguished Professor and PhD supervisor.
In 2005, Qiu Xinglong founded Hunan Waking Dragon Law Firm, where he served as chief lawyer and partner, and later concurrently served as the director of the Criminal Defense Professional Committee of the Hunan Provincial Lawyers Association.
In the academic aspect, Qiu Xinglong has presided over two subjects of the National Social Science Foundation, one research subject of the Ministry of Justice on the Rule of Law and Legal Education, and has monographs such as Penal Science and Introduction to Penal Rationality. He has made great achievements in the field of penal science, and was awarded the fourth "Ten Outstanding Young Jurists of China", and was selected by the Ministry of Education for the "Trans-Century Talents" program.
Qiu Xinglong, who has a doctorate in criminal law, had a "legendary" detention experience in a detention center.
He was detained and arrested for four years and 11 months in 1993 on suspicion of speculation, and was sentenced in the first trial and acquitted in the final trial. Information on the court's decision shows that Qiu Xinglong was sentenced to two years and six months' imprisonment by the Shijiazhuang Intermediate People's Court in November 1997 on suspicion of copyright infringement, and that in December 1998, the Hebei Higher People's Court acquitted him of the charge.
In the Chinese legal profession, can be called "talent" scholars countless, but can be described as "ghosts", "geeks", the academic community is nearly unanimous that Qiu Xinglong is none other than. He is thin, long hair by the shoulder (a year cut hair), a pair of large eyes, gleaming, and there is a venomous light.
At the age of 24, he wrote the first "unbearable" law book, but was hailed by professionals as "elevating the level of China's penal theory". The doctor's degree is about to graduate, but performed a "mysterious disappearance" drama for the academic world attention.
Squatting nearly five years in prison, but came out with 2 million words of legal reports, as well as a 400,000-word purely theoretical works, which did not have a note, so that those who soak all day long in the pile of books to pick up copying the information of the book speller shame, and the book's academic value is also to let some of the teachers and friends because of the love and cherish him and worry about his academic future relief.