Hi, my name is Jiunn-rong Yeh. I'm a Law Professor, with National Taiwan University Law School. I'm happy to present to you, Taiwan law in focus. Yes. This is a program to introduce you, how Taiwan's legal system has evolved, and up to now, and what challenges that we are facing. An offshore island situated in the West side, of the Pacific Ocean. Taiwan has gone through a tremendous transformation over the last few decades, since the Second World War. Now, people recognize Taiwan as a full democracy, in fact, it's a democracy very very significant in Asia, and also in the world. Taiwan is also good in economic development, particularly in the '80s. It was one of the four dragons or four tigers. People call that, "economic miracle." Ecologically, Taiwan is an island but with, tremendous reach of biodiversity. You'll see everything here, and also all plantation, all fruit, all vegetables, all agriculture products. People are proud of Taiwan's diversity in many ways. Aside from ecological diversity, there are social diversity also. Taiwan's population is a combination of several waves of migrants from every part of the world, including the recent migrants from Southeast Asia, putting together a community and Commonwealth, that embrace human rise, equality, and also sustainable development. Well, people may be intriguing to ask what kind of legal system? What kind of government structure? That will serve as the backbone to this tremendous, and fascinating development. Yes, this is something we are going to present to you, through a series of introduction to Taiwan's legal development, and also legal systems. This series is going to be divided by six parts, with six Professors of the National Taiwan University Law School, All of them are my colleagues to present to you, every aspect of Taiwan's legal development. We will begin with, Professor Chen, Yun-Ru. She will take us into the historical contexts by looking into each part of Taiwan's development, and see how they change, and how they affect Taiwan's legal development. and is going to be followed by, Professor Huang, Sieh-chuen. She's going to take us into the family structure, social structure, and particularly that demographical change of Taiwan. Looking into how civil law, and other related areas of law would change the concept, and landscape of legal reasoning and legal development. Professor Chang, Wu Jen She will look into Taiwan's constitutional development. But with a focus of human rights development. There has been a tremendous development of civil advocacy of human rights in Taiwan. Professor Chang, will take us into the landscape, how Taiwan's civil group advocates civil rights, and human rights. and also, how they'd refer to international human rights covenant, and get recognition from the court, from the congress, and also from the executive. Professor Su, Kai-Ping would refer to, criminal process by looking into the limitation of state power. Meanwhile, embracing due process in the criminal procedure. Professor Yang, Yueh-Ping on the other hand, will look into Taiwan's economic development with the focus of corporate law, how they evolve, and how they deal with the global competition, and also private governance in Taiwan. Well, the last part is going to be with me and I'm going to do democratic constitutionalism, and a regulatory state. I look into Taiwan's constitutional development and trajectory, of constitutional change. Particularly to look into how government change their face, in responding to globalization and democratic transformation. Together, six Professors are going to present Taiwan law in focus. There are three features that I would like to mention before you set up your journey into this series. Number 1 is goanna to be Taiwan focused. We know that in the area of law, we may compare this jurisdiction with other jurisdictions. We call it a comparative law. This is not comparative Law. This is a lot solely dedicated to Taiwan. It's about Taiwan law. Number 2 is going to contextual. It's not going to be textual. We're not going to look into, the statutes, theories with that lengthy introduction of something on the book. Rather, we are going to look into the law in action. That is how law of function in the real world, in a society, in a government operation, and in everybody's, daily life. It's good to be contextual and also with historical dimension, and also global dimension. Number 3, this course is going to be comprehensive. We are now going to take up one specific area of law, and talk about that only. We are going to deal with traditionally, we found in the constitutional law, or administrative law, or civil law, criminal law, and also economic law and trade. This is the course, dealing with very comprehensively almost every important aspects of law, reflecting to almost every aspect of Taiwan's development. We know is going to be fun. So, get ready, for the journey.
