2021 Judicial Reform Thesis and Dissertation Grant Program | First-Stage Selection Results

The applicants selected in the first-stage review of the 2021 Judicial Reform Thesis and Dissertation Grant Program are listed below:

Independent Paper Category
Kao Kuo-Yu 〈A Constitutional Analysis of Online Searches: Reviewing Relevant Provisions of the German Code of Criminal Procedure〉

Master's Thesis Category
Liu I-Chen 〈A Study of Discovery Under the Citizen Judges Act: Lessons from U.S. Law〉
Li Hui-Tzu 〈Building a Restorative Framework After the Exoneration of Wrongful Criminal Convictions in Taiwan: Focusing on the Criminal Compensation Act〉

Doctoral Dissertation Category
Lin Tzu-Wei 〈Seeing the Invisible Victims: The Best Interests of Children of Defendants and Criminal Sentencing Rules〉

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Notes

1. Applicants selected in the first-stage review must submit a completed paper, thesis, or dissertation within the following periods:
   • Doctoral dissertations: three years.
   • Master's theses: two years.
   • Independent papers: one to three years, as determined case by case by the Thesis Review Committee based on the submission schedule in the research proposal.
     The period begins on October 1 of the year in which the applicant is selected. Failure to submit the completed work by the deadline will result in loss of eligibility for the second-stage review.
     An applicant may request an extension in writing, stating the reasons. An extension may not exceed one year and may be granted only once.
2. When an award-winning paper, thesis, or dissertation is formally published, its first page must state: "This work was supported by a grant from the Judicial Reform Foundation, which is hereby gratefully acknowledged."
3. Award recipients must grant the JRF, royalty-free and without geographic, temporal, or technological limitation, the right to publicly display, exhibit, and transmit the full text of the work.