Category: Court

I occasionally share updates and trivia from the court, along with public comments from Taiwanese legal scholars on cases and court business. If you like it, I hope you consider sharing it. *** I recently published an analysis of the Taiwan Constitutional Court on the blog of the International Society of Public Law (ICON•S). In…

I occasionally share updates and trivia from the court, along with public comments from Taiwanese legal scholars on cases and court business. If you like it, I hope you consider sharing it. I stopped updating for almost half a year—not only because of my terrible time management, but also because the TCC is officially dysfunctional…

Every Monday, I will share the weekly updates and trivia from the court, along with public comments from Taiwanese legal scholars on cases and court business. If you like it, I hope you consider sharing it. This week’s news includes President Lai Ching-te exercising his mediation power on February 10, 2025, and a 3-justice chamber…

Every Monday, I will share the weekly updates and trivia from the court, along with public comments from Taiwanese legal scholars on cases and court business. If you like it, I hope you consider sharing it. This week’s news includes the fate of the constitutional procedural act, a whole-court dismissal, and a memorial to the…

This is a new series of blog posts updating the weekly activities of the Taiwan Constitutional Court. Every Monday, I will share the weekly updates and trivia from the court, along with public comments from Taiwanese legal scholars on cases and court business. If you like it, I hope you consider sharing it. *** Background…

Recently, the Taiwan Constitutional Court has been facing the threat of court curbing from the majority of congressmen in the Legislative Yuan (LY), composed of the Kuomintang (KMT) and the Taiwan People’s Party (TPP). Specifically, they aim to require the court, when hearing cases en banc, to have 15 justices and to enhance the voting…