 According to the evaluation reports published by the Ministry of Education of PRC every 4-year, since 2004, Renmin University of China Law School has been consistently ranked as the best law school in China and has successfully maintained its status in the newest evaluation conducted in 2017.Its current dean is Wang Yi.After its founding in 1950, RUC Law School became the first institution of higher legal education in the People's Republic of China and, as such, is dubbed by many as the "cradle" nurturing China's most outstanding jurists.