Job Opening | JRF Taipei Office is Hiring: Researcher (Closed)

What Taiwan's judiciary will look like ten years from now depends on our actions today. For 25 years, the Judicial Reform Foundation has been advancing judicial reform, accumulating rich experience and results in wrongful conviction rescue, judicial oversight, systemic reform, and legal education.

We are a professional, passionate, proactive, influential, and courageous team. We are currently in urgent need of partners who can practically research the causes of problems and propose effective solutions. If you also want to walk a path different from traditional legal professionals and are willing to stand up and reform Taiwan's judicial environment, we sincerely invite you to join us!

Open Position

2 Master's or Postdoctoral Researchers.

Job Responsibilities

(Scope of duties, not workload)

1. Legal Policy Research: Criminal procedure system reform, advocating the implementation of resolutions from the National Symposium on Judicial Reform, citizen participation in trials, reducing judicial burdens to improve trial quality, victim protection, prosecutorial and police system reform, monitoring Grand Justice candidates, and other projects.
2. International Cooperation Research: Comparative law research, advancing and monitoring international human rights conventions, participation in international legal professional organizations, supporting human rights lawyers in China, and other projects.
3. Advocacy and Education Research: Advocating judicial reform, promoting legal education, training student volunteers, and other projects.
4. Case Rescue Research: Major wrongful conviction cases such as the Ch'iuh Ho-shun (Chiou Ho-shun) case, and constitutional interpretation cases.

Qualifications

1. Possess a Master's or Doctorate degree in a law-related field; attorney qualification is preferred.
2. Committed to the research and promotion of judicial reform issues as a life calling.
3. Willing to participate in social movements and engage in long-term NGO work.

Work Location

Taipei Office of the Judicial Reform Foundation (7F., No. 3, Lane 90, Sungjiang Rd., Taipei City, near Sungjiang Nanjing MRT Station).

Salary Range

NT$35,000 to NT$55,000. Salary for those with five or more years of attorney practice experience is negotiable.

Application Materials

1. One copy of personal resume and autobiography, indicating available start date. (Mandatory)
2. Copies of highest degree certificate and attorney certificate. (Mandatory)
3. An article titled "How to Promote Judicial Reform," approximately 1,500 words. (Mandatory)
4. Proof of English, Japanese, or other foreign language proficiency. (Optional, welcomed)
5. Documents related to participation in public welfare services or social movements. (Optional, welcomed)

Interested applicants should email their application files by August 31, 2020, to equity@jrf.org.tw, attention to Director Hsiao I-min, 02-25231178#25. (Please indicate the position applied for and your name in the subject line.)