ABSTRACT
Taiwan’s legal education system was initially induced by the Japanese during the colonial period, which commenced at the end of the nineteenth century. In a country such as Taiwan, which has, via Japan, adopted the Continental European civil law system, the legislative regulation of social life is predicated upon knowledge produced by legal education and then mediated through the executive and the judiciary. The institutions of legal education create a class of legal professionals who engage in the creation of law and who influence the general community’s perception of the legal system. What, then, is the normative content of such education, which plays a crucial role in a country governed by the rule of law? In the case of Taiwan, we can examine this question from the perspective of social history and come to understand – and critique – the orientation of current reform projects.
