Lin Jing is Associate Professor at China University of Political Science and Law, and Deputy Director of the Institute of Evidence Law. She holds a Doctor of Law degree from the University of Freiburg, Germany, and completed her postdoctoral research at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law in Germany.

Her research focuses on evidence law, comparative criminal justice, juvenile justice, and human rights protection. She teaches courses such as “Methodology and Thesis Writing,” “Chinese Criminal Justice” (in English), and “Evidence Law” for doctoral students, international students, master’s students, and undergraduates.

She has previously worked at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law in Germany and at K&L Gates LLP in Frankfurt, Germany. She is the sole author of Compliance and Money Laundering Control by Banking Institutions in China, published in 2016 by Duncker & Humblot, Germany, as part of the Max Planck Series on Criminal Law (Band K 173). She is also co-editor of A Dialogue Between Law and History (Springer, 2021) and chief translator of An Introduction to Evidence Science (Springer 2025, from Chinese to English). She has published numerous articles in Chinese, English, and German. She has been invited to deliver academic lectures at institutions including Leiden University, Roma Tre University, Waseda University, University of Cologne, University of Freiburg, etc.