Digital Technology and Evidence Law (in Chinese)

Published by Angle Publishing Co., Taiwan, 2022. (A collection of my eleven published law journal articles, on evidence law for digital technology, and interdisciplinary studies.)

Constitutional Rights and Evidence Law (in Chinese)

Published by Angle Publishing Co., Taiwan, 2022. (A collection of my nine published law journal articles, on constitutional rights and evidence law.)

Governmental Privilege and Criminal Trial (in Chinese)

Published by Angle Publishing Co., Taiwan, 2011. (A reprint of my master thesis and published by Taiwan’s largest legal information group as one of the best degree theses that year.)

Limits of Freedom of Public Authorities with Respect to Obtaining Evidence at the Stage of Investigation: Taiwan Report (in English)

in LIMITS OF FREEDOM OF PUBLIC AUTHORITIES WITH RESPECT TO OBTAINING EVIDENCE AT THE STAGE OF INVESTIGATION: A COMPARATIVE LEGAL STUDY, edited by MARIA ROGACKA-RZEWNICKA. Brill Academic Publishers (the Netherlands). 2024 (forthcoming).

Technology Law in Taiwan (in English)

in THE ELGAR CONCISE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ASIAN LAW, edited BY SARAH BIDDULPH. Edward Elgar Publishing (the United States). 2024 (forthcoming).

Taiwan's Crime and Criminal Justice (in English)

in THE ELGAR ENCYCLOPEDIA OF CRIME AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE, edited by VALSAMIS MITSILEGAS ET AL. Edward Elgar Publishing (the United Kingdom). 2024.

Psychology and Justice in Taiwan (in English)

in RESEARCH HANDBOOK IN LAW AND PSYCHOLOGY, edited by REBECCA HOLLANDER-BLUMOFF. Edward Elgar Publishing (the United States). 2024. (co-authored with Yee-San Teoh)

On the Nature and Admissibility of Digital Evidence: A Lesson from Taiwan’s Strategies and Struggles (in English)

in FORSCHUNG ALS HANDLUNGS-UND KOMMUNIKATIONSZUSAMMENHANG. FESTSCHRIFT FÜR HANS-HEINRICH TRUTE, edited by ROLAND BROEMEL ET AL. Mohr Siebeck Verlag (Germany). 2023.

How Courts Determine Sentencing? The Function and Future of Taiwan’s Official Sentencing Information System (in Chinese)

in INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES IN AI FROM THE PERSPECTIVES OF HUMANITY AND SOCIETY, edited by CHIEN-LIANG LEE & WEN-YUAN LIN. National Tsing Hua University Press (Taiwan). 2022.

Can Computers Decide on Sentencing? (in Chinese)

in HOW AI CHANGES THE LAW, edited by LI-CHING CHANG & INTERNATIONAL ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND LAW RESEARCH FOUNDATION. Angle Publishing Co. (Taiwan). 2022.

What Common Law Evidence Rules Mean for Taiwanese Courts: A Focus on Casus Omissus of Hearsay Exceptions (in Chinese)

in EVOLVING CONCEPT OF THE RULE OF LAW AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE CROSS-STRAIT LEGAL SYSTEMS DURING THE LAST FOUR DECADES, edited by YU PING. Angle Publishing Co. (Taiwan). 2020.

A Broader Definition of Empirical Legal Studies (in Chinese)

in EMPIRICAL LEGAL STUDIES: A READER, edited by JINHUA CHENG & YUN-CHIEN CHANG. Law Press China. (China). 2019. 

Using Artificial Intelligence to Assist Sentencing in Courts? Perspectives on Statistical Evidence and Big Data (in Chinese)

- National Taiwan University Law Journal (accepted, forthcoming in 2025).

Digital Courts and Constitutional Due Process: Focusing on Equality of Parties in Criminal Proceedings (in Chinese)

- Formosan Jurist, No.37, Taiwan. (July 2024).

New Wine in Old Bottles: Authenticity and Identity of Digital Evidence in a Series of Supreme Court Decisions (in Chinese)

- The Supreme Prosecutors’ Office Law Review, No.3, Taiwan. (June 2024).

How Do Courts Determine that a Party Has Explicitly Appealed Only for Sentencing? An Analysis of the Constitutional Perspectives in Supreme Court Criminal Decisions (in Chinese)

- Journal of New Perspectives on Law, 4:4, Taiwan. (April 2024).

Judicial Trust and Constitutional Recusal of Judges: Commentary on Supreme Court 112 Tai Appeal No. 1887 Criminal Court Decision (in Chinese)

- Court Case Times, No.140, Taiwan. (February 2024).

The Superstar Concert Murder Case: Confession and Silence (in Chinese)

- Taiwan Jurist, No.255, Taiwan. (January 2024).

On the Constitutional Principle of Public Trials: Focusing on the Publicization of Criminal Trial Procedures (in Chinese)

- Taiwan Bar Journal, 28:1, Taiwan. (January 2024).

On the Basis of Criminal Judgments Without Explicit Law: Foreign Law and Customary Law (in Chinese)

- Formosan Jurist, No.30, Taiwan. (December 2023).

Ex Officio Investigations by Criminal Courts: Three Perspectives from the Supreme Court (in Chinese)

- Journal of New Perspectives on Law, 3:11, Taiwan. (November 2023).

The Convergence and Divergence of the Citizen Judges Act and the Code of Criminal Procedure: Observations from Mock Trials (Development in the Law in 2022: Criminal Procedure Law) (in Chinese)

- National Taiwan University Law Journal, 52 (Special Issue), Taiwan. (November 2023)

Sentencing in the Second Instance and the Anchoring Effect (in Chinese)

- Taiwan Jurist, No.249, Taiwan. (July 2023).

Establishment, Transformation, and Development of Digital Evidence Law in Taiwan: Court Practice and Legal Theory (in Chinese)

- FT Law Review, No.249, Taiwan. (June 2023).

The Best Evidence Rule as A General Rule of Evidence Law? An Analysis of Taiwan’s Supreme Court Decisions (in Chinese)

- Formosan Jurist, No.21, Taiwan. (March 2023).

Admissibility and Investigation of Digital Evidence—A Comment on A Supreme Court Decision (in Chinese)

- Court Case Times, No.129, Taiwan. (March 2023).

On Identity of Digital Evidence: Examples of Video Records and Their Inspection (in Chinese)

- Taiwan Jurist, No.243, Taiwan. (January 2023).

Digitization of Criminal Justice System: Remote, Video Conferencing Trials and the Consortium Blockchain of Justice (Development in the Law in 2021: Criminal Procedure Law) (in Chinese)

- National Taiwan University Law Journal, 51 (Special Issue), Taiwan. (November 2022)

Graphanalysis in Criminal Procedure: Expert Witnesses and Inspection (in Chinese)

-Journal of New Perspectives on Law, 2:8, Taiwan. (August 2022).

Admissibility and Probative Value of Confession— Comments on A High Court Decision (in Chinese)

- Court Case Times, No.122, Taiwan. (August 2022).

On Documents from Overseas and Hearsay Rules: A Thought of What to Prove (in Chinese)

- Taiwan Jurist, No.237, Taiwan. (July 2022).

The Reference to Foreign Laws to Make Judicial Policies— Focuses on the “Collection Method” and “Functional Comparative Law” (in Chinese)

- Formosan Jurist, No.12, Taiwan. (June 2022).

The Standards of Appellate Review in Taiwan’s Lay Participation System (in Chinese)

- FT Law Review, No.242, Taiwan. (April 2022).

Digital Evidence: Verification and Means of Proof (in Chinese)

- Taiwan Jurist, No.233, Taiwan. (March 2022).

Plain Error and Appellate Review of Lay Participation Cases (in Chinese)

- Journal of New Perspectives on Law, 2:2, Taiwan. (February 2022).

Digital Evidence: Burden of Proof and Authentication (in Chinese)

- Formosan Jurist, No.8, Taiwan. (February 2022).

How the Highest Court’s “Rule of Thumb” Affects Taiwan’s Lay Participation and Its Appeal Process (in Chinese)

- Court Case Times, No.115, Taiwan. (January 2022).

Admissibility of Evidence in the Lay Participation System of Criminal Courts: With an Attention to Scientific Evidence (in Chinese)

- National Taiwan University Law Journal, Taiwan. (December 2021)

Blockchain Technology and Courtroom Evidence (in Chinese)

- National Taiwan University Law Journal, Taiwan. (September 2021)

Digital Evidence: The Originals, Copies, and the Best Evidence Rule (in Chinese)

- The Taiwan Law Review, No.311, Taiwan. (April 2021).

Digital Evidence: Admissibility and Its Alternative (in Chinese)

- Court Case Times, No.106, Taiwan. (April 2021).

How Sentencing Information System Establishes the Consistency Limit on Court Sentence (in Chinese)

- Court Case Times, No.98, Taiwan. (August 2020).

The Principle of Equality and the Principle of Sentencing (in Chinese)

- Taiwan Law Journal, No.393, Taiwan. (June 2020).

Free Proof in Criminal Procedure: What It Means and Why It Conflicts with Other Values (in Chinese)

- National Taiwan University Law Journal, 49(1), Taiwan. (March 2020)

The Essence of Digital Evidence in Criminal Procedure (in Chinese)

- Court Case Times, No.93, Taiwan. (March 2020).

How Customary Law Influences Taiwan's Criminal Courts

Presentation on Customary Law and the Courts, University of California, Berkeley –California, October 11-13, 202

How Courts Read Evidence: A Behavioral Analysis of Evidence Interpretation in Taiwan’s Criminal Courts

Presentation on 20^th Asian Law Institute (ASLI) Conference, National University of Singapore –Singapore, May 31- June 1, 2023.

Technology-Assisted Sentencing and Its Limits: A Lesson from Taiwan

Presentation on 2022 Annual Meeting on Law and Society - Lisbon, Portugal /Virtual, July 13-16, 2022.

AI for Digital Evidence and Forensics in Courts: A Comparative Study of Taiwan and the United States

Presentation on 2021 Annual Meeting on Law and Society - Chicago, U.S.A /Virtual, May 28-31, 2021.

a. Numbers in the Courtroom: Research on Theory and Practices of Statistical Evidence (2024-2026) (Principal Investigator, funded by National Science and Technology Council, Taiwan)

a. The History and Function of the U.S. Sentencing Commission (2023) (Co-PI, funded by Judicial Yuan, Taiwan’s highest judicial administration)

b. On Appellate Review in Taiwan’s Lay Participation System (2023) (Co-PI, funded by Judicial Yuan, Taiwan’s highest judicial administration)

a. Behavioral Analysis of Judicial Decision-Making in Criminal Courts: With A Focus on Convincing and Sentencing Decisions (2022-2024) (PI, funded by National Science and Technology Council, Taiwan)

b. A Research on Significant and Controversial Cases: With A Focus on Lin Chin-Lung’s Drug Trafficking Case (2022-2023) (PI, funded by the Judicial Yuan, Taiwan’s highest judicial administration)

a. Exploring the Application of Blockchain Technology to the Criminal Justice System (2021-2023) (PI, funded by National Taiwan University)

b. A Comparative Study of Forensic Pathologist Systems in Practices in Advanced Countries (2021) (Co-PI, funded by Ministry of Justice, Taiwan)

a. Establishing the Law of Criminal Evidence in the Digital Era (2020-2022) (PI, funded by Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan)

b. Reformation of Sentencing Information System Database: Robbery Cases (2020-2021) (PI, funded by the Judicial Yuan, Taiwan’s highest judicial administration) Reformation of Sentencing Information System Database: Homicide Cases (2020) (PI, funded by the Judicial Yuan, Taiwan’s highest judicial administration)

a. Forensic Psychology in the Information Science Age Course Group Project (2019-2022) (Co-PI, funded by Ministry of Education, Taiwan)

b. Evidence Evaluation in Criminal Court Proceedings: Focuses on Relevancy and Court Discretion (2019-2020) (PI, funded by Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan)

a. Expert Witness and Disclosure (2018-2019) (Co-PI, funded by Judicial Yuan, Taiwan’s highest judicial administration)

a. Establishment of A Metodology for Empirical Legal Studies in Taiwan’s Criminal Procedure (2017-2019) (PI, funded by Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan)

b. Empirical Study on Sentencing Strategies in Court Practice (2017-2018) (Co-PI, funded by Judicial Yuan, Taiwan’s highest judicial administration)

c. Courtroom Broadcasting in Taiwan, the United States, Japan, Germany, and the United Kingdom (2017) (Co-PI, funded by Judicial Yuan, Taiwan’s highest judicial administration)