episode 37: 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
- 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
- Ex-Leader of Taiwan, Chen Shui-bian, Gets Life Sentence (NYT)
- 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