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Research Professor, Institutum Iurisprudentiae, Academia Sinica
J.S.D., The University of Chicago Law School (2009)
LL.M., The University of Chicago Law School (2003)
LL.M., National Chengchi University (1999)
LL.B., National Taiwan University (1996)
Legal Theory; Constitutional Law; Freedom of Speech and the Press; Democratic Theory; Democratization and the Public Sphere; philosophy of punishment
Date of First Appointment:07/29/2008
Telephone:+886-2-2652-5426
Fax:+886-2-2785-9471
E-mail:chhsu73@sinica.edu.tw
Research Assistant:Yun-Chung Lin |+886-2-2652-5443 | ycliniias@gate.sinica.edu.tw
Jimmy Chia-Shin Hsu is Research Professor of IIAS. His research interests include legal philosophy, comparative constitutional law, philosophy of human rights, and transitional justice/ethics of historical memory. His recent research themes include right to life in Asia, human dignity as a legal and philosophical concept in Asia, judicial responses to civil disobedience in Taiwan and Hong Kong, and the discourse on reconciliation in Taiwan’s transitional justice discourse. My research in the future will center on three major themes. Frist, upon investigation of the evolution of human rights thoughts since WWII through the 70s and 80s up to the present, I intend to inspect human rights development in East Asia and its philosophical foundations. Second, based on the rich body of court decisions dealing with civil disobedience in Taiwan, I will theorize Taiwan’s extraordinary experience in the context of its polarized democratic politics, and use it to enrich contemporary legal theories. Third, I will analyze the conflict of historical memories in Taiwan and its challenges to transitional justice. Further, I will use Taiwan’s experience to contribute to transitional justice, historical memory, reconciliation studies literature in general.