1. Full name: Tran Thi Hong Le                                       2. Sex: Female

3. Date of birth: October 31^st 1983                                  4. Place of birth: Phu Tho province

5. Admission decision number: Decision No.3208/QD-SDH, dated 08/11/2010 by the Director of Vietnam National University, Hanoi

6. Changes in academic process:

- Additionning the second supervisor: TS. Trinh Tien Viet under the Decision No. 173/QD-KL dated 29/02/2012 by the Deans of School of Law;

- Return to the Locality under the Decision No. 976/QD-KL dated 29/12/2016 by the Deans of School of Law.

7. Official thesis title: Theoretical and practical issues on Women’s Rights Protection by Criminal Law in Vietnam

8. Major: Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure Law                     9. Code: 62.38.01.04

10. Supervisors: Main Supervisor: Prof.Dr. Trinh Van Thanh

                        Additional Supervisor: Dr. Trinh Tien Viet

11. Summary of the new findings of the thesis:

As a systematic and uniformed research on theoretical and practical aspects of woman’s rights protection by criminal law, this dissertation achieved the following results:

- Been successful in building theoretical basis of protecting women's rights by criminal law, including: construction of scientific concept, identify features, methods and standards to protect the rights of women by criminal law.

- The first time systematized the formation and development of related regulations in Vietnam’s penal law, from the feudalist period to nowaday  and comparative study these provisions in the criminal law of several countries in the world in order to inherit inherit and acquire the legislative experiences.

- Analysis of the content of the regulations that protect the women's rights in the Criminal Code in 1999 to assess the limitations of these rules and practical application in the 10 years from 2007 to 2016; find out the cause of these limitations.

- Assess the related reforms and limitations in regulations of 2015 Criminal Code.

- Proposing a theoretical model for regulations relating the protection of women's right in order to continue perfecting these regulations in 2015 Criminal Code of Vietnam

- On the basis of the causes of limitation in pratical application of regulations relating the protection of women's right in Criminal Code, dissertation has put forward a set of solutions that can enhance the applicability of these regulations.

12. Practical applicability:

The findings, recommendations of the thesis provide an effective assistance for legislative work as well as the application of the criminal law in the current period in our country in order to improve the efficiency of protection of women's rights in particular and human rights in general by criminal law in Vietnam.

Besides, the dissertation serves as a good source of reference for other researchers, lawyers, lawmakers, lecturers and MA students and those who major in criminal judiciary in training facilities at undergraduate and postgraduate.

13. Further research directions, if any

- Women’s rights protection by criminal procedure law;

- Women’s rights protection by law on execution of criminal judgements;

- Women’s rights protection by legal rules in criminal justice.

14. Thesis-related publications:

[1] Tran Thi Hong Le and co-authors (2012), “Legal principles of transnational crimes”, Democracy and Law Journal (244), pp.2-11 and (245), pp.2-10.

[2] Tran Thi Hong Le (2014), “Perfecting the Provisions of Vietnam’s Criminal Code on Women’s Rights Protection on the Basis of Receiving International Law”, Vietnam National University Journal of Science - Legal Studies vol.30 (2), pp.12-26.

[3] Tran Thi Hong Le and co-authors (2015), “Liberty and personal security protection in Vietnamese criminal law”, Journal of Legal Science and Information (1), pp.3-55.

[4] Tran Thi Hong Le (2015), “Abolition of death penalty on pregnant women and nursing mothers in foreign countries and in Vietnam”, Internal Affairs Magazine  (20), pp.37-42.

[5] Tran Thi Hong Le (2016), “Provisions on Women’s Rights Protection in Vietnam’s Criminal Code and Perfecting Orientations”, People’s Police Education Science Journal  (80), pp.37-46.

[6] Tran Thi Hong Le (2017), “Perfecting the Criminal Law to Prevent Prevent Abortion for Gender Reason in Viet Nam on the basic of Receiving Criminal Law Provisions of Federal Rebublic of Germany”, Vietnam National University Journal of Science - Legal Studies vol.33 (1), pp.18-24.