[11] On May 24, 2003, in the case of Sun Zhigang, three graduate students at the law school, Xu Zhiyong, Teng Biao and Yu Jiang submitted a proposal regarding the Measures of Custody and Repatriation for Urban Vagrants and Beggars to the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, citing concerns that the provisions restricted personal freedom of citizens and contradicted with the civil rights protection clauses of the Constitution.

The State Council of China formally revoked the Measures of Custody and Repatriation for Urban Vagrants and Beggars on June 20, 2020.

[12] In 2005, three professors and three graduate students at the law school filed the first public interest litigation in China, asking the Heilongjiang Higher People's Court to fine the defendant PetroChina a total of 10 billion Yuan to set up a public fund to restore the environment of the Songhua River, which was seriously polluted by an explosion of a Diphenyl Plant owned by PetroChina.

Four sitting justices of China's Supreme Court are alumni of Peking University Law school.

[citation needed] The school's alumni also include Wang Tieya, international jurist and former Justice of the International Criminal Tribunal of the former Yugoslavia, Zhang Guohua[disambiguation needed], legal historian, one of the founders of the studies of Chinese legal thought history; and Luo Haocai, administrative law jurist and former justice of China's supreme court.

[citation needed] Journalist Dong Yuyu, arrested by Chinese authorities in 2022 on charges of espionage, graduated from the law school in 1987.