Commentary
2017
Taiwan's First Chinese Political Prisoner
Lee Ching-yu, who was scheduled to attend a UN investigative hearing on September 12, suddenly received a call this…
2017
Judicial Reform as a Practice: Reflections from a Summer 2017 Intern
Although I majored in political science, ever since attending the JRF camp in high school, I knew I wanted to intern…
2017
A Social Work Student Stumbling into the Legal Realm—Reflections of a Summer 2017 Intern
As a social work major, I unexpectedly ended up interning at the Judicial Reform Foundation, an NGO that seemingly…
2017
The JRF Through My Eyes: Reflections of a 2017 Summer Intern
Originally just an aimless, uninteresting ordinary college student, coming to the JRF made me feel for the first time…
2017
Are Chief Prosecutors Handling Cases a Farce? Or a Reform?
Recently, the Kaohsiung District Prosecutors Office held a prosecutors' meeting and resolved that the Chief Prosecutor…
2017
A Grassroots Police Officer's Confession: A Police Academy Student Criticized and Attacked for Opposing Pension Reform—What is Wrong with Police Education?
The verbal abuse directed online at a Taiwan Police College student who expressed opinions on the recent pension reform…
2017
Op-Ed: Ministry of Justice, yet to take the steps toward correctional reform?
The National Customs Conference on Judicial Reform held its concluding meeting on August 12. Despite various…
2017
Retaining the True Heroes Among Judges
When Judge Chiang Kuo-hua was trying the retrial case of the three death-row prisoners Su Chien-ho, Wang Wen-hsiao, and…
2017
Do Not Let the Supreme Court Become an Obstacle to Wrongful Conviction Relief
On July 15 of last year, the Prosecutor-General filed an extraordinary appeal against the final and binding judgment in…
