Event Sidelights & Records

24Sep.
2025

Sidelights | Has the JRF Lost Its Mind? Is Investigation Confidentiality Going Against＿＿＿?

Chu Ch'i-Liang (Pro Bono Service Attorney, New York State)

Sidelights from a lecture in the “Becoming an Ordinary Person” exhibition series. Attorney Shih Hung-cheng explains why…

22Sep.
2025

Sidelights｜Is It Dangerous to Be a Lawyer in China? Why Should Taiwanese Lawyers Care About Chinese Human Rights Lawyers?

Chu Ch'i-liang / Pro Bono Certified Attorney, New York State

The second lecture in the series held during the "Becoming an Ordinary Person" exhibition shifted the focus from…

17Sep.
2025

Sidelights | "Were the Courts Run by the XX Party?" Why Young People Should Understand the History of Party-State Judiciary

Written by Chu Ch'i-Liang (Pro Bono Attorney, New York State) / Edited by Lin Cheng-Ching (Bill Research Specialist, JRF)

28Aug.
2025

Lecture Sidelights: Part 2 | Even Computers Can Select Potatoes, But What About Sentencing and Judgments?

Ch'en Po-yu / JRF Intern, Department of Social Work, Chung Shan Medical University

Judicial AI is a complex issue intertwining law, institutions, and ethics. While artificial intelligence brings much…

27Aug.
2025

Lecture Sidelights: Part 1 | Computers Can Sort Peanuts, But What About Sentencing and Verdicts?

Intern at JRF Taichung Office

This article is a lecture report on the legitimacy and risks of AI intervention in judicial decision-making, exploring…

20Jun.
2025

Sidelights | Confess on Others to Reduce Your Sentence? Hsiao Ming-yueh's Transformation from Real Estate Agent to International Drug Ring Kingpin Overnight, and the Narcotics Hazard Prevention Act

Attorney Hung Hsiang-ling / Pro Bono Volunteer, New York State Bar

Sung Yun-hua was a member of an international drug trafficking ring who was arrested by police while picking up a…

17Jun.
2025

Sidelights | The Key Has Been Turned, Where Does the Door Lead? The Path of Death Penalty Reform After Constitutional Interpretation No. 8 of 2024

JRF Intern

The Regulations on the Execution of Capital Punishment were amended in April 2025. In earlier years, there were only…

28May.
2025

Sidelights | What Era Is This, and Students Are Still Playing 'Aluba' (Happy Corner)?! Gender × Rule of Law × Education Interdisciplinary Interactive Lecture

Hung Yü-tíng, Wu Nien-chen / Pro Bono Volunteers, New York State Attorneys; Li Ming-ju / Deputy Executive Director, Judicial Reform Foundation

Amid rising gender consciousness, many people feel perplexed—while we seem better able to recognize the forms of…

26May.
2025

Sidelights | When the Law Steps into the Classroom: How the Judicial Reform Foundation Promotes Legal Education

Li Chi-wei / Department of Social Work, Chung Shan Medical University, JRF Intern

09May.
2025

Seminar Proceedings | When the Judiciary Meets Politics: Unconstitutionality Disputes and Institutional Prospects Arising from the Amendments to the Constitutional Court Procedure Act

Judicial Reform Foundation

06May.
2025

Seminar Sidelights｜When the Judiciary Meets Politics—Session 1: The Unconstitutionality Review Procedure with the Constitutional Court Procedure Act as the Object of Review

K'ung Hsiang-ling / Attorney-at-Law

The first session of the seminar, "The Unconstitutionality Review Procedure with the Constitutional Court Procedure Act…