August 2025

This month’s highlights from the Judicial Reform Foundation:

• Monthly review | The Su case is not over: a statement on the Supreme Court’s second remand of the case.
• Exhibition reflection | Fleeing to the Last Room: JRF’s Digital Rule-of-Law Special Exhibition.
• Lecture sidelights, part 1 | Even a computer can sort peanuts — so what about sentencing and judgments?
• Lecture sidelights, part 2 | Even a computer can sort peanuts — so what about sentencing and judgments?
• Dialogue beneath thousand-year eaves: a record of Kyoto University’s 2025 AI Governance Summer School.
• JRF Cup | The 2025 National High School JRF Cup Debate, on the motion of whether online real-name registration does more good than harm, or more harm than good, for Taiwanese society.
• Can online real-name registration be the best solution to the internet’s problems? A post-debate commentary for the affirmative, by Wu Chia-jung, a judge at the 2025 JRF Cup and a student at the Interdisciplinary Program of Law at National Taiwan University.
• Online real-name registration does more harm than good for Taiwanese society: a post-debate commentary for the negative, by Lai Yi-tzu, a judge at the JRF Cup and secretary of the CDPA debate-promotion association.

The full articles for these pieces are available in Chinese on our website; English versions are being prepared.

Upcoming Events in September

Taipei Bar Association Lawyers’ Day celebration. 3 September 2025.

As AI Arrives, Where Does "the Freedom Not to Go Digital" Go? Saturday 20 September 2025, 14:00–16:00. Moderator: Chou Chu-chan, land administration agent at Chou Chu-chan Land Agents. Speaker: Yang Hsiu-hui, attorney and member of JRF’s Digital Rule-of-Law Group. Venue: JRF Taichung Office, 10F-2, No. 4-33, Sec. 1, Shuangshi Rd., East District, Taichung City. Capacity 50; once full, registrants are placed on a waiting list.

2025 Keelung Tidal Art | SKY ARENA weekend arts market. 27–28 September 2025, 13:00–20:00. Venue: 3F Plaza, Breeze East Coast, No. 236, Ren’er Rd., Ren’ai District, Keelung City.

Support Our Work

If this work matters to you, please consider supporting the Judicial Reform Foundation with a regular or one-time gift, so that we can keep standing with the people and pressing for a judiciary worthy of their trust.