Huaide ​Ma was born in Xining, Qinghai province, in 1965. He is the vice president of China University of Political Science and Law, president of the Research Center for Government by Law—a Key Research Base of Beijing Social Science; professor; advisor of doctoral students; vice president of the academic committee of China University of Political Science and Law; president of China Behavior Law Association; standing director of China Law Society; vice president of China Supervision Society; vice president of the Chinese Society for Academic Degree and Graduate Education; guest consultant for the Supreme People’s Court of the People’s Republic of China; expert consultant for the Supreme People’s Procuratorate; member of the Coordination Committee of National Judicial Examination and; consultant or expert consultant of National Development and Reform Commission, Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, Ministry of Civil Affairs, Ministry of Health, and the people’s governments of Beijing, Shandong province, Fujian Province and Hunan province. He graduated from Beijing University and obtained a Bachelor of Law in 1988. He received his doctoral degree in China University of Political Science and Law in 1993. He became the first person to earn a doctorate in Administrative Procedure Law in China. He was a visiting scholar at Yale University, Boston University, University of Sydney, and the University of Melbourne.