Wen-Chen Chang Associate Professor, College of Law, National Taiwan University No. 1, Sec. 4, Roosevelt Rd., Taipei 10617, Taiwan EL: 886-2-3366-8948 Fax: 886-2-2368-1874 E-mail: wenchenchang@ntu.edu.tw Current Position Associate Professor, College of law, National Taiwan University (2007/8~) Editor-in-Chief, National Taiwan University Law Review (2008/8~) Education Doctor of Science of Law (J.S.D.), Yale Law School (2001) Master of Law (L.L.M.), Yale Law School (1998) Master of Law (L.L.M.), College of Law, National Taiwan University (1995) Bachelor of Law (L.L.B.), College of Law, National Taiwan University (1992) Past Position Assistant Professor, College of law, National Taiwan University (2004/8~2007/7) Assistant Professor, Graduate Institute of National Development, College of Social Sciences, National Taiwan University (2002/8~2004/7) Post-Doc Research Fellow, National Science Council Project (2001/8~2002/7) Law Clerk to Chief Justice Yueh-Sheng Weng, Constitutional Court, Taiwan (1995/8~1997/3) Awards, Professional Positions and Activities: Wu Ta-You Research Award, National Science Council (2010) Visiting Scholar, The University of Chicago, School of Law (2009/12~2010/6) Excellence in Teaching Award, National Taiwan University (2007) Member of Editorial Board, National Taiwan University Law Review(2008/8~) Board Member, Taiwan Law Society (2005~) Teaching and Research Areas Constitutional Law, Comparative Constitutional Laws, East Asian Constitutional Laws, International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Administrative Law and Regulatory Theories, Law and Technology, Law and Society Courses taught in English American Constitutional Law, Introduction to Anglo-American Law, International Humanitarian Law, Comparative Constitutionalism, East Asia Constitutionalism
Publications *Papers published in English are listed below but those in Chinese omitted. Periodicals and Published Volumes 1. Wen-Chen Chang, 2011, Strategic Judicial Responses in Highly Politically Charged Cases: East Asian Experiences, International Journal of Constitutional Law (forthcoming). 2. Jiunn-Rong Yeh & Wen-Chen Chang, 2011, The Emergence of East Asian Constitutionalism: Features in Comparison, American Journal of Comparative Law Vol. 59 No. 3, p_-_. (forthcoming) 3. Wen-Chen Chang, 2010.11, Public-interest Litigation in Taiwan: Strategy for Law and Policy Reforms in Course of Democratization, in PUBLIC INTEREST LITIGATION IN ASIA (Po Jen Yap & Holning Lau eds.), New York: Routledge, p. 136-160. 4. Wen-Chen Chang, 2009.12, An Isolated Nation with Global-minded Citizens: Bottom-up Transnational Constitutionalism in Taiwan, NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW, Vol.4, No.3, p 203-235. 5. Jiunn-Rong Yeh & Wen-Chen Chang, 2009.03, The Changing Landscape of Modern Constitutionalism: Transitional Perspective, NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW, Vol. 4, No. 1, P.145-183. 6. Wen-Chen Chang, 2008.09, East Asian Foundations for Constitutionalism: Three Models Reconstructed, NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW, Vol. 3, No. 2, P. 111-141. 7. Jiunn-Rong Yeh & Wen-Chen Chang, 2008.09, The Emergence of Transnational Constitutionalism: Its Features, Challenges and Solutions, PENN STATE INTERNATIONAL LAW REVIEW, Vol. 27, No.1, P. 89-124. 8. Wen-Chen Chang, 2005.12, The Role of Judicial Review in Consolidating Democracy: the Case of Taiwan, ASIA LAW REVIEW, Vol. 2, No. 2, P.73-88. 9. Wen-Chen Chang, 2005.12, Constructing Federalism: The EU and US Models in Comparison, EURAMERICA, Vol. 35, No. 4, P.733-773. 10. Wen-Chen Chang, 2004.09, Interpretative Politics: Judicial Avenue to Constitutional Transformation, in Die Rolle der Verfassungsrechswissenshaft im demokratischen Verfassungsstaat (Christian Starck Hrsg.), P.167-P.174, Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft. 2
11. Jau-Yuan Hwang, Fort Fu-Te Liao & Wen-Chen Chang, 2003.03, DEVELOPMENT OF CONSTITUTIONAL LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS IN TAIWAN FACING THE NEW CENTURY, IDE Asian Law Series No. 24, Institute of Developing Economies, Japan. 12. Wen-Chen Chang, 2001.07, TRANSITION TO DEMOCRACY, CONSTITUTIONALISM AND JUDICIAL ACTIVISM: TAIWAN IN COMPARATIVE CONSTITUTIONAL PERSPECTIVE (JSD Dissertation, Yale Law School) (Supervisor: Bruce Ackerman, Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science) Conference Papers, Speeches and other Presentations 1. Wen-Chen Chang, 2010.05, The Convergence of Constitutions and International Human Rights Law: East Asian Perspective, paper presented at Law and Society Annual Meeting, May 27-30, Chicago, U.S.A. 2. Wen-Chen Chang & Jiunn-Rong Yeh, 2010.04, The Explicit and Implicit Use of Foreign Precedents by the Constitutional Court in Taiwan, research paper in collaboration with the Interest Group on Use of Foreign Precedents by Constitutional Judges, International Association of Constitutional Law, April 16-17, Siena University, Siena, Italy. 3. Wen-Chen Chang, 2010.02, Strategic Judicial Responses in Highly Politically Charged Cases: East Asian Experiences, paper presented to the workshop on The Changing Landscape of Asian Constitutionalism, February 17-18, National University of Singapore Faculty of Law, Singapore. 4. Wen-Chen Chang, 2009, An Isolated Nation with Global-minded Citizens: Bottom-up Transnational Constitutionalism in Taiwan, paper presented to the third Asian Forum for Constitutional Law, held by College of Law, National Taiwan University, September 25-26, Taipei, Taiwan. 5. Wen-Chen Chang, 2009, Strategy for Legislative Reforms: Public-Interest Litigation in Taiwan, paper presented to Public-Interest Litigation in Asia Conference, held by Faculty of Law, University of Hong Kong, August 14, Hong Kong. 6. Wen-Chen Chang, 2009, The Role of Domestic Nongovernmental Organizations in Transnational Constitutionalism: The Case of Taiwan, paper presented at the 6 th Asian Law Institute Conference on Dynamics of Change in Asia, held by Faculty of Law, University of Hong Kong, May 29-30, Hong Kong. 3
7. Jiunn-Rong Yeh & Wen-Chen Chang, 2008, The Development of East Asia Constitutionalism: Prospects and Perils, paper presented at the International Conference on the New Horizons of East Asian Studies in the Age of Globalization, held by the Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences, National Taiwan University, Dec. 13-14, Taipei. 8. Wen-Chen Chang & Jiunn-Rong Yeh, 2008, The Use of Foreign Precedents by the Constitutional Court in Taiwan, research paper in collaboration with the Interest Group on Use of Foreign Precedents by Constitutional Judges, International Association of Constitutional Law, Nov. 15, London. 9. Wen-Chen Chang, 2008, Judicial Governance? Comparison between South Korea and Taiwan, paper presented at Workshop on Judicial Governance in East Asia? Comparative Perspective from Japan, South Korea and Taiwan, held by Public Law Center, College of Law, National Taiwan University, Jun. 13, Taipei. 10. Wen-Chen Chang, 2007, Constrained Justice: Judicial Roles in Transitional Justice and Democratization in Taiwan, paper presented at the Conference on Law and Democratization in Taiwan and South Korea: Twenty Years Experience, Oct. 19-20, University of Wisconsin law School, Madison, U.S.A. 11. Wen-Chen Chang, 2007, Transnational Norms and Local Courts: Reflections from East Asia Perspective, paper presented at the 2 nd Asian Forum for Constitutional Law, Nagoya University, Sep. 22-23, Nagoya, Japan. 12. Wen-Chen Chang, 2007, East Asian Foundations for Constitutionalism: Resistance or Reconstruction?, paper presented at the Joint Annual Meeting of the Law and Society Association and the Research Committee on Sociology of Law, Humboldt University, July 25-28, Berlin, Germany. 13. Wen-Chen Chang, 2007, Changing Faces of Deliberating Citizens: A Thesis for Social Groups, paper presented at the 7th World Congress of Constitutional Law, held by the International Association of Constitutional Law & the Association of Greek Constitutionalists, June11-15, Athens, Greece. 14. Wen-Chen Chang, 2007, Constitutional Identity in the Process of Constitutional Reform: Perspective from a New Democratic Taiwan, paper delivered at Asia Week 2007: Symposium on Taiwan s Democratic Culture, April 6-7, Austin College, Texas, U.S.A. 4
15. Wen-Chen Chang, 2006, Empowering or Disempowering? A Local Study on Judicial Use of Transnational Norm, paper presented at the Annual Meeting of Law and Society Association, July 6-9, Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A. 16. Wen-Chen Chang, 2005, Alternative Agenda in Constitutional Reengineering: Ensuring the Rule of Law and Political Trust in Taiwan, paper presented to Constitutional Reengineering in New Democracies: Taiwan and the World, held by Research, Development & Evaluation Commission of the Executive Yuan & National Taiwan University, College of Law, Public Law Research Center and Human Rights Research Center, October 28-29, Taipei, Taiwan. 17. Wen-Chen Chang, 2005, The Role of Judicial Review in Consolidating Democracies: The Case of Taiwan, paper presented to the 1 st Asian Forum for Constitutional Law, held by Seoul National University College of Law, September 23-24, Seoul, Republic of Korea. 18. Wen-Chen Chang, 2005, The Role of Public Referendum in the Process of Constitution Making: A Taiwan Perspective, paper presented to International Conference on a New Constitution for Taiwan, held by New Century Institute of New York, January, 14, New York, U.S.A. 19. Wen-Chen Chang, Hsiu-I Yang, & Jiunn-Rong Yeh, 2004, Bridging the Gap between Bioethics and Bio-law: A Due-Process Approach, paper presented to the 7 th International Congress of Bioethics, held in New South Wales University, Nov. 9-12, Sydney, Australia. 20. Wen-Chen Chang, 2004, Beyond Informed Consent: A Contextualized Approach to Genetic Information Regulation, paper presented to the 4 th International Conference of Bioethics: Biotechnology, Family and Community, held by Graduate Institute of Philosophy, National Central University & National Taiwan University, June 24-26, Taipei, Taiwan. 21. Wen-Chen Chang, 2004, Judicial Activism & Human Rights: A Comparative Approach in the Context of Transition, paper to be presented to 2004 Law and Society Annual Meeting: Law, Power and Injustice: Confronting Legacies of Sociolegal Research, May 27-30, Chicago, IL, U.S.A. 22. Wen-Chen Chang & Jiunn-Rong Yeh, 2004, Beyond Informed Consent: A Complex Model for Genetic Information Regulation, paper presented to 5 th Asian Bioethics Conference, Feb. 13-16, Tsukuba Science City, Japan. 5
23. Wen-Chen Chang, 2003, Constitutional Federalism in Comparison: Implications for Future Regional Integration, paper presented to JOINT INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE CONSTITUTIONALIZATION OF THE EU, Dec. 12-13, IEAS, Academia Sinica. 24. Wen-Chen Chang, 2002, Globalization and World Constitutionalism: The Impacts on Taiwan and the Third World, paper presented to the Twentieth Annual Meeting of the Association of the Third World Studies on The Effects of Globalization in Taiwan and the Third World held by Association of The Third World Studies, Mississippi State University & National Taiwan University, December 29-30, Taipei, Taiwan. 25. Jiunn-Rong Yeh & Wen-Chen Chang, 2002, Judicial Empowerment: The Changing Role of the Council of Grand Justices, paper presented to International Workshop on Challenges to Taiwan s Democracy in the Post-Hegemonic Era held by Institute for National Policy Research, Taiwan & Hoover Institution, Stanford University, October 28-29, Palo Alto, California, U.S.A. 26. Wen-Chen Chang, 2002, Interpretative Politics: Judicial Avenue to Constitutional Transformation, paper presented to Zweites Deutsch-Taiwanesisches Kolloquium: Die Rolle der Verfassungsrechtswissenschafts im demokratishen Verfassungstaat held by National Science Council, National Taiwan University, & National Chengchi University, September 26-27, Taipei, Taiwan. 27. Wen-Chen Chang, 2002, A Paradoxical Relationship between Democratization, Constitutional Reforms, and Judicial Empowerment: A Taiwanese Example, paper presented to The Symposium Conference on the Reach of Law in the Pacific Rim held by the Association of Law and Society and the Canadian Law and Society Association, May 28-29, Vancouver, BC, Canada. 6