Taiwan Law in Focus: Economy, Society and Democracy

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《台湾法律聚焦:经济、社会与民主》是由国立台湾大学法学院提供的第一门在线课程。该课程旨在介绍台湾的法律体系,涵盖宪法、行政法、刑法、民法、公司法以及相关议题。课程将帮助学员认识台湾法律体系的简要历史及其近年来的转变。 每周课程集中探讨台湾法律体系的不同方面,通过视频讲座和讨论,让学员了解关键议题。这门课程适合独立学习,亦可作为国立台湾大学法学院法学士学位课程的准备。 课程内容包括: - **欢迎课程**:介绍台湾法律课程的背景及目标,强调法律与台湾发展的关联,并包含每周测验与期末考试,以帮助学员自我评估学习效果。 - **第一周:历史发展和结构转型**:探讨台湾法律的历史演变及其结构调整,重点关注自17世纪以来法律移植的影响,以及台湾如何经历政权更替和法律改革,逐步演变为一个自由民主国家。 - **第二周:民主宪法与监管国家**:介绍台湾的政府结构及民主转型的完成,特别是宪法法院的特性和在民主转型过程中的重要性。 - **第三周:市场、家庭与社会变迁**:学习台湾民法的基本知识及其与宪法和刑法的区别,并讨论民法如何随着社会变迁进行修订,以及社会老龄化对家庭法的影响。 - **第四周:人权与公民社会**:探讨台湾人权法的发展,特别是在威权时代结束后的实现与加强,分析公民社会和宪法法院在此过程中的关键角色。 - **第五周:国家权力与正当程序**:介绍台湾的刑事司法系统,学习与自由与个人安全、司法救济、沉默权、辩护权及公正审判权相关的宪法权利。 - **第六周:发展型国家与公司治理**:分析台湾经济发展模式与公司治理特点,探讨银行市场与资本市场,以及公司法中的企业目标与权力结构辩论。 - **第七周:总结**:回顾整个课程的核心议题与学习成果。 通过本课程,学员将对台湾的法律体系及其社会经济背景有更深入的理解,无论是作为独立学习的机会,还是为未来法学学习的准备。

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Name:Welcome to this course!

Description: Hello, everyone! Welcome to Taiwan Law in Focus! We are all excited to have you in this course and looking forward to providing you with further understanding about Taiwan. This course is not only about law, but also includes the context of Taiwan’s development and transformation. Therefore, you would learn the legal system as well as its evolvement in Taiwan. Besides from the lectures, there would also be a quiz for each week and a final exam when you finished this course. These exams are designed for your self-evaluation and are for your better understanding about what you have learned from the course. We hope you enjoy this wonderful and fruitful journey.

Name:W1 Historical Development and Structural Transformation

Description:This is the first class of Taiwan Law in Focus. In this class, we will discuss the historical developments and structural transformations of Taiwan laws. Due to the limit of time, the goal is not to provide a throughout introduction of Taiwan’s legal history. Rather, the focuses are: (1) how the characteristics of current Taiwan law came into being through waves of legal transplants since the 17th century, (2) how the people living in Taiwan encountered and experienced these regime changes and legal reforms, and (3) how Taiwan gradually, sometimes in a roundabout way, evolved from into a liberal and democratic country over the past 100 years.

Name:W2 Democratic Constitution and Regulatory State

Description:This is the second class of Taiwan Law in Focus. In this class, we will introduce the government structure in Taiwan and discuss how Taiwan completed its democratic transition. The other focus in this class is the constitutional court of Taiwan. Although Taiwan is not the only jurisdiction which has separate constitutional court, it enjoys some special features than others. Let's explore the interesting and profound process of democratic transformation in Taiwan.

Name:W3 Market, Family and Social Change

Description:Welcome to the third class of the course. This class will introduce you to basic knowledge and features of the Civil Law in Taiwan. Also, you will learn the difference between civil law, constitutional law and criminal law. Next, the course will provide you with what revision the Civil Code has experienced with the social change in Taiwan. You can learn what kinds of rights civil law provides in this lecture. And we will discuss a special issue in Taiwan -- the illegal buildings. In the end, this lecture will give you an introduction to the aging society in Taiwan and how it affects the family law and its practice.

Name:W4 Human Rights and Civil Society

Description:This is the fourth class of Taiwan Law in Focus. In this class, we will discuss the development of human rights laws in Taiwan, focusing on constitutional laws and interpretations. Since the end of authoritarian era in the late 1980s, the guarantees of human rights in Taiwan have been substantially implemented and strengthened. Taiwan’s civil society and Constitutional Court have served crucial roles in this process. Their crucial roles as well as other contextual dynamics will be our primary discussions in the class.

Name:W5 State Power and Due Process

Description:Welcome to the fifth class of this course. This class I will introduce to you the criminal justice system in Taiwan. You will learn about the right to liberty and personal security, the right to judicial remedy, the right to silence, the right to counsel, and the right to a fair trial, under Taiwan’s Constitution. In addition, I will also give you an overview of Taiwan’s recent judicial reform of the death penalty and lay participation.

Name:W6 The Developmental State and Corporate Governance

Description:This class introduces the economic development pattern and characteristics of corporate governance in Taiwan. It starts with the characteristics of Taiwan’s economic and financial development and focuses on banking markets and capital markets. On that basis, it discusses the famous corporate objective debate and corporate power structure debate in corporate laws, analyzing how Taiwan’s corporate laws address these debates and the rationale behind such designs. It then uses two specific corporate law designs, i.e. independent directors and the Investor Protection Center, as examples to illustrate the special corporate governance environment in Taiwan. The class is concluded with a forward-looking remark, which envisages how the rise of institutional investors might affect the corporate governance landscape in Taiwan in the future.

Name:W7 Final conclusion

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“Taiwan Law in Focus” is the first online course provided by the College of Law, National Taiwan University. This course will give you an introduction to the legal system in Taiwan, which includes the topics of Constitution, administration law, criminal law, civil law, corporative law, and some related issues. You will learn about the brief history of Taiwan’s legal system and its transition in recent decades. Each week we will focus on different aspects of Taiwan’s legal system. Video lectures and some discussions are included to enable you to learn about the key issues. Whether taking this as an independent course, or as the preparation for the College of Law’s LLB degree at National Taiwan University, you will find this course interesting and helpful.

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