Executive Education Programme "Foundations of Taiwanese Law" - Launch 2025
Photo: Leonard Kosub
Due to its location and political situation, Taiwan is of growing geostrategic and security policy importance. Being the world's most significant semiconductor producer, Taiwan plays a crucial role regarding existential technology policy. Interest in Taiwan has also increased among students, and many are choosing Taiwan instead of the People's Republic of China when looking for study abroad programmes. Nonetheless, there are only a few degree programmes on Taiwan in Germany, and none at all in the field of law. Therefore, lawyers who want to specialise in Taiwan have to take a double or second degree in sinology with a focus on Taiwan.
For more than ten years, initiated by Jun. Prof. Dr Weitzdörfer ‘s predecessor, Prof. Dr. Hans-Peter Marutschke, there have been efforts and preparations to expand the range of programmes from the established programme on Japanese law offered by the FernUniversität to the legal systems of other East Asian countries. Since Jun. Prof. Dr Weitzdörfer took over the Junior Professorship for East Asian Law, focus has been on further expanding to other legal systems.
Foto: Leonard KosubFollowing the relaunch of the fully updated executive education programme on Japanese law in January 2024 and the launch of the new executive education programme on Korean law, in spring of 2025 as the first offering in another East Asian legal system, a third executive education programme on Taiwanese law will be added towards the end of 2025. This degree programme will also be the first university degree in Taiwanese law outside East Asia.
The eleven new course books will be developed by seasoned experts from renowned universities in Taiwan, who were commissioned by Jun. Prof. Dr Weitzdörfer and his team member Leonard Kosub during their trip to Taiwan in May 2024. Like the executive education programme on Korean law, the content of the programme on Taiwanese law was designed in the same way as the existing programme on Japanese law, so that all three areas can be offered as a modular LL.M. of East Asian Law in the future.
Further information will be available on this website shortly. The basic requirements for participation in the executive education programme and the examination regulations are congruent with those of the Japanese law course, which can be found here.
If you have any questions concerning the new programme or would like to register as a prospective student, please contact us at eastasianlaw.
Curriculum
Module 0: Methodological Approach (10 ECTS)
Programme unit RV - Introduction to Comparative Law
Module 1: Public Law (10 ECTS)
Programme unit T1 - Taiwan: Society, Politics and Economy - Prof. Dr. Yu-Fang Hsu (Soochow University)
Programme unit T2 - Historical Background of the Private Law System - Prof. Dr. Jia-He Lin (National Chengchi University)
Programme unit T3 - Judicial System in the Past and Present - Prof. Dr. Ling-Ching Fu (National Chengchi University)
Programme unit T4 - Constitutional Law I: State Organisation Law - Prof. Dr. Po-Yen Hu (Soochow University)
Programme unit T5 - Constitutional Law II: Fundamental Rights - Director Prof. Dr. Chien-Liang Lee (Academia Sinica)
Programme unit T6 - Criminal Law - Dean Prof. Dr. Huang-Yu Wang (National Taiwan University) / Prof. Dr. Heng-Da Hsu (National Taiwan University)
Module 2: Private Law (10 ECTS)
Programme unit T7 - Private Law I: Overview - Dean Prof. Dr. Cheng-Hsian Hsu (National Chengchi University) / Prof. Dr. Ming-En Hsiang (National Chengchi University)
Programme unit T8 - Privatrecht II: Allgemeiner Teil des taiwanesischen Zivilgesetzbuchs - Prof. Dr. Sung-Mao Huang (Academia Sinica)
Course Unit T9 - Private Law III: Contract Law General Part - Prof. Dr. Ming-En Hsiang (National Chengchi University)
Programme unit T10 - Private Law IV: Contract Law Special Part - N.N.
Programme unit T11 - Private Law V: Property Law - N.N.
Seminar (10 ECTS)
In addition, the following elective modules are being developed and will be offered as optional units in the future:
Elective module 3: Specialisation in Private Law (10 ECTS)
Programme unit T12 - Family Law - N.N.
Programme unit T13 - Management without Mandate and Unjust Enrichment - N.N.
Programme unit T14 - Tort Law - N.N.
Elective module 4: Specialisation in Taiwanese Labour Law (10 ECTS)
Developed in cooperation with the Faculty of Law at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
Wahlmodul 4: Vertiefung Taiwanesisches Recht des Geistigen Eigentums und Technologierecht (10 ECTS)
Developed in cooperation with the Faculty of Law at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
