Jurists are generally classified according to legal departments, including theoretical law, legal history, constitutional law and administrative law, criminal law, civil and commercial courts, procedural law and military law. Criminal procedure law belongs to a branch of procedural law.

According to "Contemporary China Jurist", scholars who are more professional in procedural law are:

"Bian Jianlin Chen Changyi Chen Guangzhong Guiming Chen Ruihua Chen Weidong Cheng Rongbin Cui Fanmin Chongyi Gu Dongpei Jiang Weijing Han Dynasty Li Hao Liu Jiaxing Long Zongzhi Shen Daming Shen Deyong Song Yinghui Tan Bing Tang Weijian Tian Pingan Wang Jiancheng Kingdom Center Wang Minyuan Wang Yaxin Xu Jingcun Yan Duan Yang Rongxin Zhang Weiping Zhou Guojun Zuo Weimin Sun Changyong Li Changdao ..." And others.