Commentary

2021
March 24 Fourth-Anniversary Paint-Splattering Case
The case arose on the fourth anniversary of the March 24 Executive Yuan eviction, when the defendants splashed paint on…

2021
Court Observation | First Evidentiary Hearing on the Retrial Petition in the Chiu Sung-Cheng Case
Chiu Sung-Cheng has consistently maintained that he never held a knife during the melee, much less stabbed Cheng OO,…

2021
Internship Reflection | Keep Advocating, and More People Will Gradually Hear: That Is Where Change Begins
An intern reflects on discovering that JRF's work extends well beyond wrongful-conviction cases to legislative…

2021
Internship Reflection | Without a Legal Background, I Still Found Ways to Contribute to Issues I Care About
I had just graduated from high school and was taking a gap year. Although I had no legal background, I was interested…

2021
Op-Ed | Rethinking Juvenile Correctional Education: From Fragmented Services to an Integrated Approach
Adapted from a 2017 policy forum, this article compares Taiwan's juvenile correctional education with U.S. approaches…

2021
Who Made the Evidence Lie?
Originally published in 2011 and republished in 2021, this op-ed revisits forensic failures exposed by the wrongful…

2021
MOJ's Hit-and-Run Amendment Turns the Law Back Twenty Years
An op-ed criticizes the Ministry of Justice's proposed amendment to Criminal Code Article 185-4 for allowing punishment…

2021
Job Opening | JRF Taipei Office Hiring: Legal Specialist (Closed)
In this role, you will work directly with contentious issues as they arise, collaborate with partners from different…

2021
No Such Person | Realizing That "State Violence" Is Not an Abstraction
A JRF intern who had been a junior-high student during the 2014 movement reflects on encountering March 24 seven years…
