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

On the history of Taiwan's legal system and its intricacies

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