Law School of Dalian Maritime University acquired the right to grant doctorate in International Law in 1998. It was approved to establish Law Postdoctoral Research Station in 2009, and obtained doctoral degree granting in first degree discipline of law the next year, thus became one of the 38 doctorate-granting units around the nation. For the moment, main cooperative research directions of the Law Postdoctoral Research Station include: Maritime Law, International Law, Civil and Commercial Law, Criminal Law, Constitutional Jurisprudence and Administrative Law, Environmental and Resources Protection Law, etc.