I am Yinn-ching Lu (呂胤慶), a Taiwanese legal scholar with research interests in constitutional law, comparative constitutional studies, judicial behavior and politics, technology regulation. My recent publications include a book on the permissibility of AI judges and a book chapter on Taiwan Constitutional Court procedures. I hold an LL.M. from The University of Chicago Law School, an LL.M. from National Taiwan University, and an LL.B. from National Chengchi University. I practiced as an attorney for one year and clerked at the Taiwan Constitutional Court for two years. I am currently pursuing a Doctor of Juridical Science degree at Emory University School of Law.
Happy to connect. You can reach me at yinnchinglu [at] gmail.com.
Legal & Academic Experience
- Research Scholar, AI and the Future of Work at Emory Law, 2024-Present.
- Law Clerk, Taiwan Constitutional Court (SCOTUS-equi), 2021-2023.
Education
- Doctor of Juridical Science Candidate, Emory University School of Law.
- Master of Laws, The University of Chicago Law School, 2024.
- Master of Laws, National Taiwan University, 2021.
- Bachelor of Laws, National Chengchi University, 2017.
Award & Scholarship
- Study Trip Scholarship, Taiwan Studies Project, University of Warsaw, 2026.
- Colin B. Picker Graduate Prize, The American Society of Comparative Law, 2025.
- College of Law National Taiwan University Distinguished Master Thesis Award, 2022.
- Taiwan Law Society Distinguished Law Thesis Award, 2022.
- Taiwan Phi Tau Phi Scholastic Honor Society Honorary Membership, 2021.
- The Ministry of Education Taiwan Scholarship for Overseas Study, 2019.
Work-in-Progress
- The Limit of Judicial Independence in Taiwan: The Effect of Court Curbing.
- Justices Matter: A Comparative Theory of Judicial Self-Protection.
- Large Language Model and Judicial Trust (with Ifeoma Ajunwa).
- Large Language Model and Formalism.
Publication
- Taiwan’s Xiaohongshu Ban and Freedom of Expression, Verfassungsblog (2026) (with Shao-kai Yang).
- The Vacuum of Constitutional Order in Taiwan: 2024-2025, Int’l J. Const. L. Blog (2025).
- Academic Limbo: Reforming Campus Speech Governance for Students, 2025 Wisconsin Law Review Forward 23 (2025) (with Cheng-chi (Kirin) Chang).
- Bringing the court packing to the Taiwan Constitutional Court, Up Media (written in Mandarin, with Christine Kuan-Wei Chen, Edward Yo-Hau Lai, Po-Hun Kuo, 2024)
- Freedom of Expression in Taiwan, Taiwan Human Rights Hub (2024).
- Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the Public Sector: Human Intervention as the Necessary Condition for the Legitimate Use of AI (Angle) (written in Mandarin, 2024).
- Can US government regulate Social Media?, Aug. 23, 2024, Plain Law Movement (written in Mandarin, 2024).
- Constitutional Procedure, in Tzu-Chieh Lin (ed.), Taiwan Constitutional Court Practice, pp. 50-107 (Angle) (written in Mandarin, 2024).
- Guide on Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights, Judicial Yuan (Translation: English to Mandarin; with Ching-yi Liu, Ting-chi Liu & Chia-yin Lin).
- Case of Ebrahimian v. France, 64846/11, Select Translations of the Jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights, Vol. 5, Judicial Yuan (Translation: English to Mandarin; with Shao-kai Yang).
- Educational Algorithmic Bias in UK During Pandemic, Informational Law Center of Institutum Iurisprudentiae Academia Sinica (written in Mandarin).
Presentation
- Accepted Presenter, Technological Formalism Demystified: Due Design of LLM Courts, the Fifth Annual Legal Scholars Roundtable on Artificial Intelligence, Emory University School of Law (Apr. 9-10, 2026).
- Invited Presenter, A Theory of Judicial Resilience, Kozminski University (Mar. 10, 2026).
- Accepted Presenter, A Theory of Judicial Resilience, University of Warsaw (Mar. 9, 2026).
- Accepted Presenter, Justices Matter: A Comparative Theory of Judicial Self-Protection, The American Society of Comparative Law Annual Conference, McGill University Faculty of Law Quebec (Oct. 16-18, 2025).
- Honorable mentioned for the Colin B. Picker Graduate Prize (the best graduate student paper at the annual conference).
- Accepted Presenter, The Voting Behavior of the Taiwan Constitutional Court 2016-2024, Empirical Legal Studies Workshop, Institutum Iurisprudentiae Academia Sinica (Aug. 11-12, 2025).
- Accepted Presenter, Court Curbing and Judicial Behavior: A Case of Taiwan, 2025 North America Taiwanese Professors’ Association Annual Conference (Aug. 3-10, 2025).
- Accepted Presenter, The Effect of Court Curbing: Taiwan Constitutional Court’s Ideology Shift after the 2024 Election, What can Taiwan teach the world, what can the world teach Taiwan? Lessons from the 2024 “Year of Elections,” Joint National Chengchi University and University of Nottingham 2025 Conference (Jun. 26-27, 2025).
- Accepted Presenter, Political Foundation for the Constitutional Court to Fight against Court-curbing Measures, Winter/Summer School Junior Scholars & Conference, International Society of Public Law (ICON·S), The University of New South Wales (May 15-23, 2025).
- Accepted Presenter, Artificial Intelligence Adjudication: A Constitutional Analysis of AI Judge, The Global Summit on Constitutionalism 2025, The University of Texas at Austin (Mar. 20-22, 2025).
- Accepted Presenter, Court-curbing in Taiwan, The Global Summit on Constitutionalism 2025, The University of Texas at Austin (Mar. 20-22, 2025).
- Invited Presenter, Informational Privacy in Asia, Privacy and AI, Emory University School of Law (Nov. 18, 2024).
- Invited Panelist, Taiwan Post-Election, International Programs and International Law Society, University of Chicago Law School (January 18, 2024).
- Accepted Presenter, The Theoretical Foundation of a Right to Explanation, Panel 61 – Law in the Digital Age, The International Forum on the Future of Constitutionalism, The Global Submit (January 14, 2021).
- Accepted Presenter, Is the Equal Protection Obsolete? The Analysis of Automated Decision-Making under Discrimination Law, 2020 National Technology Law Conference, National Chiao Tung University School of Law.
- Accepted Presenter, Regulating Algorithm: How to explain the Right of the Explanation in the EU GDPR, 2020 Taiwan Graduate Students Conference on European and American Studies, Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica.
- Awarded the best paper of the Conference.