Mr. Chen Chunlong has been engaged in the research of legal theory and practical judicial work for many years and published over a dozen monographs and translated works, and over 100 papers both in China and abroad. His main publications including Democratic Politics, the Rule of Law, and Human Rights; Comparative Law; Political Reform and Construction of the Legal System; Theory and Practice of the French Litigation System; Judicial Compensation in China; and Chinese-French and French-Chinese Legal Dictionary. He has won 3 Awards for Outstanding Works in Social Sciences and received special government allowance from the State Council. His suggestion that the Chinese system of legal science should consists of theoretical jurisprudence, historical jurisprudence, applied jurisprudence and frontier jurisprudence has been attached great importance to and accepted by the Chinese law circle; his study and legislative proposals on the legal systems of multi-party coopeation under the leadership of the Communist Party and political consultation was attached great importance to by the Central Committee of the Communist Party and was embodied in the 1993 Constitution.
Between Junly 1994 and July 2000, he had been the Vice-President of he Higher People's Court of Beijing Municipality, mainly in charge of the reform of adjudicative mode, state compensation for unjust, framed-up and wrong cases, training of judges, and expert testimony.
In 2000, at the request of the CASS, Mr. Chen Chunlong left the Higher Court of Beijing Municipality and returned to CASS Law Institute to do research work.