Judicial Reform in Taiwan

Neil Chisholm is a Visiting Scholar at the Academy of East Asian Studies at Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea.

• Foreword; Part 1 Taiwan’s Judicial Reforms in Comparative and Historical Context; 1 Taiwan’s Judicial Reform Process: East Asian Context, Democratization, and Diffusion; 2 The Long Century of Taiwan’s Westernized Justice System: Historicizing the Dynamics of Her Judicial Reform of 1999; 3 The Development and Reform of Taiwan’s Prosecutorial System: 1945-2014; Part 2 Institutional Transformations; 4 Separation of the Judiciary and the Public Prosecution: The Cornerstone of Judicial Reform in Taiwan; 5 Regime Unchanged: The Organization and Failed Reorganization of Taiwan’s Judicial Yuan; 6 Reform and Resistance: Restructuring Taiwan’s Appeals Process and the Internal Culture of Taiwan’s Supreme Court; 7 Adopting a Lay Participation System in Taiwan: The Trial Observer Reform Attempt; 8 Transformation from the Top-down or Bottom-up? Legal Education Reform as a Microcosm of Taiwan’s Inconclusive Judicial Reform Process; Part 3 The Procedural Revolution; 9 Conscience and Convenience: Taiwan’s Rocky Road to Adopting the Adversarial System in Criminal Procedure; 10 The Evolution of the Right to Counsel in Taiwan; 11 A Leap Forward Not Yet Achieved: Civil Procedure Reform in Taiwan; 12 Administrative Law Reform in Taiwan; Afterword: President Tsai’s 2017 National Conference on Judicial Reform