ABSTRACT
This book examines Taiwan’s judicial reform process, which began three years after the 1996 transition to democracy, in 1999, when Taiwanese legal and political leaders began discussing how to reform Taiwan’s judicial system to meet the needs of the new social and political conditions. Covering different areas of the law in a comprehensive way, the book considers, for each legal area, problems related to rights and democracy in that field, the debates over reform, how foreign systems inspired reform proposals, the political process of change, and the substantive legal changes that ultimately emerged. The book also sets Taiwan’s legal reforms in their historical and comparative context, and discusses how the reform process continues to evolve.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1I|86 pages
Taiwan’s judicial reforms in comparative and historical context
chapter 1|21 pages
Taiwan’s judicial reform process
chapter 2|30 pages
The long century of Taiwan’s Westernized justice system
part 87II|116 pages
Institutional transformations
chapter 4|15 pages
Separation of the judiciary and the public prosecution
chapter 5|23 pages
Regime unchanged
chapter 6|22 pages
Reform and resistance
chapter 8|34 pages
Transformation from the top-down or bottom-up?
part 203III|84 pages
The procedural revolution