FOW037 – Legal Reforms in Taiwan (with Maggie Lewis) [EN]

Introduction

Authoritarian History & legal implications 01:14

• 1987: end of martial law
• 1996: first democratic presidential elections
• hooligan law (liumang) abolished 2008
• related academic paper for those interested: How Taiwan’s Constitutional Court Reined in Police Power: Lessons for the People’s Republic of China
• December 2017 – Transitional Justice Act passed by the Taiwanese parliament
• Green Island
• government incorporated parts of international human rights law into Taiwanese law (2009)
• Taiwanese calendar: 2018 == 107

Status Quo & Reforms 19:15

• discussion: how to involve lay people (non-professionals) in the legal system
• Japanese system of mixing professional judges and lay judges
• Taiwanese parliament wrote draft law based on the Japanese system
• Penghu

International judicial influences 34:19

Judicial system under martial law 44:19

• Ex-Leader of Taiwan, Chen Shui-bian, Gets Life Sentence (NYT)

Recommendations 56:48

• Judiciary LINE account: @judicial_yuan (in Chinese)
• New Bloom Magazine (in English)
• FOW027 with Brian Hioe

Photo: Presidential Palace in Taipei, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 by Cheng-Fu Lu