1. Full name: Vu Duc Hanh                                         2. Sex: Male

3. Date of birth: 11 December 1977                            4. Place of birth: Ha Noi

5. Admission decision number: No. 4439/QD-DHQGHN dated December 20th 2012 issued by the President of Vietnam National University, Hanoi.

6. Changes in academic process:

Extending the study period by Decision No 305/QĐ-ĐHQGHN dated February 19th 2016 and Decision No.114/QD-DHQGHN dated January 16th 2017 issued by the President of Vietnam National University, Hanoi.

Returning to the place under the decision number No.948/ QD-KL December 29, 2017 signed by the Dean of School of Law – VNU

7. Official Thesis title: The institution of the prosecution

8. Major: Criminal Procedures Laws and Criminal Laws.     

9. Code: 9380101.03

10. Supervisors: Proffesor, Doctor Nguyen Ngoc Chi

11. Summary of the new findings of the thesis: The Doctoral Thesis is a professional, specialized, systematic, comprehensive research on the theories, substance and the factual application of the institution of the prosecution in the framework of the Criminal Procedures and Criminal Laws. The Thesis contribute several valuable findings to the study of Criminal Procedures Laws, particularly as follows:

The Thesis constitutes systematically the theoretical concepts, rules, categories on the institution of prosecution in the criminal procedures laws basing on the composition of common knowledge and the specific characters of political, economic, social and legal matters in Vietnam, particularly the mechanism of enforcement of state powers and the organization and operation of justice systems including the functions, competencies of the Prosecutors;

The Thesis analyses and reviews the regulations of the crimial procedures laws of Vietnam on the execution of prosecution rights; appraises the practical exercise of prosecution rights of the Procuracy from 2009 to 2018, then address commentaries about the current regulations of execution of prosecution rights and factual practice of the regulations of execution of prosecution rights in the criminal procedures laws of Vietnam, also clarify the limitations and causations responsible for the limitations of factual execution of prosecution rights. In comparision with earlier published researches, the Thesis has updated, examined the regulations of the Criminal Procedures Code 2015 on the execution of prosecution rights and the factual exercise of the regulations on the execution of the prosecution rights up to 2018;

The Thesis addressed and examined the background, causations for improving the current regulations on the execution of prosecution rights; proposed several recommendations to refine the current regulations about execution of prosecution rights in the Criminal Procedures Code 2015; posed some suggestions to enhance the practical exercise of prosecution rights.

12. Practical applicability, if any: The findings of the Thesis could be utilized and cited in the study and research of legal studies institutions and/or academies; and considered as a useful reference resource for relevant state authorities in the activities of making policy, laws in the field of execution of prosecution rights in Vietnam; the Thesis also might be used as a reference material for prosecutors in exercising prosecution rights in criminal procedures, as well as for law students in legal studies universities, specially the Hanoi Procuracy University and the School of Prosecution Skills in Ho Chi Minh city.

13. Further research directions, if any: Research on the structural framework for execution of prosecution rights and the regulations of prosecution rights in Vietnam in order to sucessfully realize the justice reform process.

14. Thesis-related publications:

Vu Duc Hanh, Mai Dac Bien (2018), “Skills in composing protest petition in prosecuting over the activities of arresting, jailing and implementing criminal penalties”, The Procuracy Journal (14), pp.49-56.

Vu Duc Hanh (2018), “Several subject matters for prosecutors to pay attention when questioning the accused in the court of first instance of a murder case”, The Journal of Prosecution Studies (03), pp.19-25.

Vu Duc Hanh (2018), “Some commentaries on the execution of prosecution rights in the criminal procedures of Vietnam, The Journal of Prosecution Studies (05), pp.12-22.

Vu Duc Hanh (2019), “Several limitations, conficts of the current regulations on execution of prosecution rights in the criminal procedures and some recommendations”, The Journal of Prosecution Studies (05), pp.25-33.

Vu Duc Hanh (2019), “Skills of prosecutors in preparation stage before a criminal court”, Cirriculum of Execution of Prosecution Rights, pp.26-54.

Vu Duc Hanh (2020), “Improving the regulations on the execution of prosecution rights in the criminal procedures laws in order to meet the requirements of judicial reforms”, The Journal of Prosecution Studies (03), pp.16-25.