Seminar: The Taiwan Constitutional Court: History and Challenges
Friday, November 1, 2019
10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Wilf Hall, 139 MacDougal Street
5th Floor Conference Room (#512)
NY, NY, 10012
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*NOTE: This event is at a capacity. We are accepting reservations for a wait-list.
Chief Justice Hsu Tzong-Li
About the Event
Justice Jau-Yuan Hwang
Chief Justice Hsu Tzong-Li and Justice Jau-Yuan Hwang of Taiwan's Constitutional Court will discuss Taiwan’s judicial reform agenda and key cases. Chief Justice Hsu will speak about “The Judicial Activism of the Taiwan Constitutional Court,” followed by Justice Hwang discussing “Taiwan Constitutional Court’s New Challenges under the New Constitutional Court Procedure Act of 2022.” A Q&A period will follow the presentations.
Dr. Hsu has been president of the Judicial Yuan and chief justice of the Constitutional Court since 2016. For many foreigners, the best-known ruling of his term came in 2017, when the court held that the constitution of Taiwan requires legalization of same-sex marriage. The court gave the legislature two years to enact a same-sex marriage law, and it complied in May, making Taiwan the only Asian jurisdiction to legally recognize same-sex marriage. Before beginning his four-year term as chief justice, Dr. Hsu served an eight-year term as an ordinary justice on the Constitutional Court. He previously was a professor of law (1992-2003, 2013-2016) and dean of the college of law (2002-2003) at National Taiwan University. He has served as a commissioner of the Fair Trade Commission (1995-1998), and was president of the Taiwan Law Society (2002-2003). He holds a PhD in law from the University of Göttingen in Germany and an LL.M. from National Taiwan University. He has written about law and government power, and constitutionalism and rule of law, and the law governing cross-straits relations.
Jau-Yuan Hwang is a justice on the Constitutional Court and expert in constitutional law. He is a graduate of Harvard Law, where he received both his S.J.D and L.L.M. He also is an adjunct professor of law at the National Taiwan University College of Law. He has published extensively on topics in constitutional law and transitional justice, including contributing to the 2017 article, “The clouds are gathering: Developments in Taiwanese constitutional law,” which provides an overview of constitutional law and politics after the January 2016 elections.
A buffet lunch will be provided.
Reading materials will be sent to those who RSVP.