Taiwanese legal experts discuss Margaret Lewis' new article on Opinio Juris
Apr 21st, 2009 | By USAsialawNYU | Category: Institute News
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On April 17th, Opinio Juris hosted a discussion on Margaret Lewis‘ new article “Taiwan’s New Adversarial System and the Overlooked Challenge of Efficiency-Driven Reforms.” In her post, Ms. Lewis describes how Taiwan’s adoption of “efficiency-driven procedures” such as plea bargaining, deferred prosecution, file-based adjudication, and simplified trials have helped to create a “separate track of expedited, prosecutor-dominated justice alongside the adversarial one.” Ms. Lewis warns that the growing role of these procedures may undermine Taiwan’s transition to an adversarial system. At the bottom of Ms. Lewis’ post, Jaw-perng Wang, Professor of Law at National Taiwan University, and Nigel Li, partner at one of Taiwan’s biggest law firms, Lee and Li, respond to her article and provide their own thoughts on the development of Taiwan’s legal system.
