Commentary

2021
Shih Mu-Chin Case | Amicus Curiae Brief in Disciplinary Case No. 9 of 2020 (Part I)
JRF urges the Court of the Judiciary to hear the Shih Mu-Chin disciplinary case in open court. The brief argues that…

2021
The Road Home to Justice - Reflections on "Hai-Wang's Daybreak: Chiou Ho-shun's Forgotten 32 Years" in Zhunan
After visiting the Chiou Ho-shun exhibition in Zhunan, the author reflects on lost evidence, torture, the presumption…

2021
How Can the Law Be Amended to Let Shih Mu-Chin and Others Like Him Off the Hook?
A proposed amendment to the Judges Act would require disciplinary grounds, sanctions, and other substantive rules to be…

2021
Citizen Judges Act - News and Editorial Roundup (January 2021)
A chronological archive of January 2021 news reports and commentary concerning citizen-judge mock trials,…

2021
Sidelights | Can You Hear Our Voice? From the Laid-Off Workers Case and the Yuanli Anti-Wind Turbine Movement to the Chiou Ho-shun Case - Hai-Wang's Daybreak Lecture Series
Attorneys Yu Po-Hsiang, Sung Kuo-Ting, and Chen Pin-An draw on the Chiou Ho-shun case, the laid-off workers litigation,…

2021
Sidelights | Encountering the Sovereign Machine Through the Haze: Understanding and Telling the Stories of Wrongful Convictions - Hai-Wang's Daybreak Lecture Series
Exonerees Su Chien-Ho and Hsu Tzu-Chiang reflect on how wrongful convictions changed their understanding of Taiwan's…

2021
Sidelights | Seeing What Goes Unseen - Hai-Wang's Daybreak Lecture Series
Before the Zhunan exhibition opened, exoneree Cheng Hsing-Tse spoke about years spent under a death sentence and the…

2021
Court Observation Notes: Supreme Court Oral Argument in the March 23 Executive Yuan Occupation Case - 2020 Tai-Shang No. 3695
After the Taiwan High Court reversed seven acquittals in the March 23 Executive Yuan Occupation Case and convicted the…

2020
Citizen Judges Act - News and Editorial Roundup (December 2020)
A chronological archive of December 2020 news reports and commentary concerning the Citizen Judges Act, citizen-judge…
