BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:icalendar-ruby CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-WR-CALNAME:The Rule of Law in Political Conflicts: How Taiwanese Courts R espond to Disobedience in Political Polarization X-WR-TIMEZONE:Eastern Time (US & Canada) BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260908T003547Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_48544403446707 DTSTART:20250324T210000Z DTEND:20250324T220000Z DESCRIPTION:East Asia Program Lecture Series presents "The Rule of Law in P olitical Conflicts: How Taiwanese Courts Respond to Disobedience in Politi cal Polarization."\n\nIn a severely polarized polity\, political actors ar e sometimes driven to take extra-legal actions to secure their political g oals. Such actions\, often self-proclaimed as “civil disobedience”\, p ose serious challenge to the rule of law. How should the courts respond? W hat does the rule of law mean in such circumstances? Taiwan’s experience in the past two decades offer precious lessons.\n\nTaiwan experienced a s urge of social and civic movements since 2008\, which culminated in the Su nflower Movement in 2014. It resulted in a series of judicial decisions sh owcasing the courts’ dynamic interactions with the civil society. Based upon comprehensive study of judicial decisions in Taiwan for over a decade \, Hsu identifies evolving patterns of judicial response to disobedience. He argues that the rule of law plays an important role in maintaining fair political competition and facilitating political reconciliation.\n\nJimmy Chia-Shin Hsu is Research Professor at the Institute of Law\, Academia Si nica\, Taiwan. He received LL.B. from National Taiwan University\, LL.M. a nd J.S.D. from the University of Chicago Law School. He was Harvard Yenchi ng Scholar 2016-2017. His research includes legal philosophy\, comparative constitutional law\, civil disobedience\, and transitional justice. He ha s published widely in international journals and books. He is the Presiden t of IVR (International Association for the Philosophy of Law and Social P hilosophy) Taiwan Section. He recently published edited volumes such as Hu man Dignity in Asia: Dialogue between Law and Culture (Cambridge Universit y Press\, 2022) and The Ethics of Historical Memory: From Transitional Jus tice to Overcoming the Past (National Taiwan University Press\, 2024\, in Chinese). He is currently working on comparative judicial responses to civ il disobedience\, theories of human dignity in East Asian contexts\, and p ost-transition justice and ethics of historical memory.\n\nAbout the East Asia Program\n\nAs Cornell’s hub for research\, teaching\, and engagemen t with East Asia\, the East Asia Program (EAP) is a forum for the interdis ciplinary study of historical and contemporary East Asia. Part of the Mari o Einaudi Center for International Studies\, the program draws its members hip of over 45 core faculty and numerous affiliated faculty\, graduate\, a nd undergraduate students from across Cornell's colleges and schools. GEO:42.449047;-76.483597 LOCATION:Goldwin Smith Hall\, 64 SUMMARY:The Rule of Law in Political Conflicts: How Taiwanese Courts Respon d to Disobedience in Political Polarization URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.cornell.edu/event/between-post-transition-just ice-and-memory-politics-the-case-of-taiwan CATEGORIES:Lecture END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR