Taiwan Legal: What Does ROC Law Say about Taiwan?

Date: Thursday, April 3
Time: 12:30-2:00 PM (Eastern)
Vanderbilt Hall 326 and on Zoom

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About the event:

Taiwan’s status as a state is often challenged not because it fails to meet the criteria for statehood, but because of its ambiguous legal relationship with the People’s Republic of China (PRC). We continue our “Taiwan Legal” speaker series by asking how Taiwan, functioning as the Republic of China (ROC), defines its relationship with the PRC in legal terms. Yu-Jie Chen, an assistant research professor at the Institutum Iurisprudentiae of Academia Sinica, will explain what the ROC Constitution says and how Taiwan engages with and distinguishes itself from the PRC.

For earlier talks in this series, see Richard Bush on “What does US law say about Taiwan?” (recording here and written excerpts here); Peter Dutton on “What does international law say about Taiwan?”; and Jacques deLisle on “What does the United Nations say about Taiwan?”

This event is co-sponsored by the APEC Study Center at Columbia University.

About the speaker:

Yu-Jie Chen is an assistant research professor at the Institutum Iurisprudentiae of Academia Sinica and a non-resident affiliated scholar at the U.S.-Asia Law Institute at NYU School of Law. She specializes in Chinese law, international law, and human rights law. Her research examines China's authoritarian political-legal system, its impact on the international human rights regime, Hong Kong’s national security legal framework, the legal and political controversies surrounding China-Taiwan relations, and Taiwan's engagement with international law. Dr. Chen holds a J.S.D. and LL.M. from NYU School of Law. She was an inaugural global academic fellow at the University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law and previously worked as a research scholar at NYU’s U.S.-Asia Law Institute. She was born and raised in Taiwan.