Event Sidelights & Records

27Aug.
2025

Lecture Sidelights: Part 1 | Computers Can Sort Peanuts, But What About Sentencing and Verdicts?

Intern at JRF Taichung Office

This article is a lecture report on the legitimacy and risks of AI intervention in judicial decision-making, exploring…

20Jun.
2025

Sidelights | Confess on Others to Reduce Your Sentence? Hsiao Ming-yueh's Transformation from Real Estate Agent to International Drug Ring Kingpin Overnight, and the Narcotics Hazard Prevention Act

Attorney Hung Hsiang-ling / Pro Bono Volunteer, New York State Bar

Sung Yun-hua was a member of an international drug trafficking ring who was arrested by police while picking up a…

17Jun.
2025

Sidelights | The Key Has Been Turned, Where Does the Door Lead? The Path of Death Penalty Reform After Constitutional Interpretation No. 8 of 2024

JRF Intern

The Regulations on the Execution of Capital Punishment were amended in April 2025. In earlier years, there were only…

28May.
2025

Sidelights | What Era Is This, Students Are Still Playing 'Aluba'（Happy Corner)?! Gender x Rule of Law x Education Interdisciplinary Interactive Lecture

Hung Yü-tíng, Wu Nien-chen / Pro Bono Volunteers, New York State Attorneys; Li Ming-ju / Deputy Executive Director, Judicial Reform Foundation

Amid rising gender consciousness, many people feel perplexed—while we seem better able to recognize the forms of…

26May.
2025

Sidelights | When the Law Steps into the Classroom: How the Judicial Reform Foundation Promotes Legal Education

Li Chi-wei / Department of Social Work, Chung Shan Medical University, JRF Intern

08Apr.
2025

Sidelights | Seminar on "Speaking Up for Disobedience: Accompanying Defense in Social Movements and Civil Disobedience"

Chen Ting-ju / JRF Intern, Department of Law, Soochow University

Living in a democratic and free country, protests and social movements have always been ways for the public to express…

17Feb.
2025

Sidelights | 2025 Taipei International Book Exhibition: From Professor to Prisoner?! Reflections Behind the Wang Lung-ch'ang Case

P'eng Shih-han / Department of Law, Ming Chuan University, JRF Intern

He is Wang Lung-ch'ang, formerly a professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at National Taipei University of…

12Feb.
2025

Sidelights | 2025 Taipei International Book Exhibition: Su Chien-ho on Judicial Human Rights and Myself

Chang Hsin-jung / Department of Law, National Cheng Kung University & JRF Intern

Su Chien-ho was imprisoned in 1991 at the age of 19 due to a criminal case. He was sentenced to death with finality in…

04Dec.
2024

Sidelights｜Grand Justices Serving the DPP? Are You Sure?

Lin Kuan-yu, Wu Hsien-ju / Department of Law, Chinese Culture University & JRF Interns

Moderator and Researcher Lin Cheng-ching first briefly reviewed the controversy surrounding the draft amendments to the…

02Dec.
2024

Sidelights | Are Grand Justices Detached from Reality? How Are Constitutional Litigation and Human Rights Protection Possible?

Yang Pei-chen, Yu Min-an, Tsai Wan-i / Department of Law, Chinese Culture University & JRF Interns

In the public imagination, the Constitution often seems very far removed from our daily lives, and "Grand Justices"…

19Sep.
2024

Sidelights | From Death Row to Acquittal and Exoneration: Reintegrating into Society

Text by Chiang Ping-chou / Department of Political Science, Soochow University; Photography by Cheng Wei-yin / Department of Sociology, National Taiwan University

A Lifelong Practice | The third lecture in the Wrongful Conviction Series was held at the Taiwan Innocent Prisoners'…