CALL FOR PAPERS: NATSA 19th ANNUAL CONFERENCE
Submission deadline: January 4th, 2013
Notification of acceptance by: February 15th, 2013
Full papers due: May 13th, 2013
Co-assistance:
Center for Taiwan Studies at University of California, Santa Barbara
Institute of Taiwan History at Academia Sinica (中央研究院臺灣史研究所)
Note that one of the main themes includes 'Legal Studies: Developing Taiwanese Jurisprudence – Transplantation, Adaption, and Creation':
Following industrialization and democratization in the later decades
of the 20th century, Taiwan has been recognized as a country supporting
human rights and the rule of law in the international arena. Given its
late adoption of these norms, however, how exactly has Taiwan developed
(and how will it continue to develop) its own jurisprudence? Taiwan’s
long tradition of adapting foreign law into domestic law speak to
questions of how to localize foreign law, adjust them to local contexts,
internalize their presumptively foreign values, and gain public support
and democratic legitimacy. Why and how did Taiwanese legislators,
judges, and other actors transplant foreign law? Did they create
localized interpretations to adapt to Taiwanese social and cultural
factors? Are there gaps between transplanted laws and citizens’
consciousness of law? What is the value of comparative law for Taiwanese
jurisprudence?
From an international and transnational perspective, how does the
precarious international status of Taiwan offer distinctive views on the
spread and propagation of international legal frameworks and practices?
What are the implications for international treaty law given that
Taiwan has often enacted into domestic laws those international treaties
it has no means to sign onto? Moreover, how can Taiwan’s experience in
the development of law become a significant case in the global context?
We encourage submissions that speak to Taiwan’s role as a
taker/inheritor of as well as a maker/creator of jurisprudence.
The conference theme is 'Taiwan in Theory':
