課程資訊
課程名稱
亞洲憲法專題討論
Constitutionalism in Asia 
開課學期
113-2 
授課對象
法律學院  法律研究所  
授課教師
張文貞 
課號
LAW5245 
課程識別碼
A21 U5080 
班次
 
學分
2.0 
全/半年
半年 
必/選修
選修 
上課時間
星期一8,9(15:30~17:20) 
上課地點
霖研一1501 
備註
總人數上限:39人
外系人數限制:5人 
 
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課程概述

待補本課程旨在提供對亞洲憲法的新議題與理解,包括中國、香港、印度、日本、蒙古、尼泊爾、韓國、台灣和東協十國等代表性的亞洲法領域。向學生介紹這些區域的重要憲法案例和資料、批判性地審視這些亞洲司法領域發展出的憲法案例,並將之與其他地方(尤其是西方)的憲法判例進行比較。
囿於時間限制,本課程無法詳論亞洲憲法的所有主題,擇其要者,包括:(1)制憲法國家建設(constitution-making and state-building);(2)轉型、跨國及亞洲憲政主義(transitional, transnational and Asian constitutionalism);(3)司法審查,包括司法審查的製度設計、司法任命和司法獨立,以及司法裁判和救濟的形式。 

課程目標
本課程目標有三:
1. 向學生介紹觀察亞洲憲法動態的不同方法,並掌握亞洲憲法與西方憲法不同的特點。
2. 聚焦於司法權與司法違憲審查機制,從比較的角度探討不同的制度設計選擇及其對權力分立與制衡的影響。
3. 透過閱讀資料,提高學生處理來自不同國家案件和法學文獻材料的能力。 
課程要求
本課程將非常重視學生的課堂討論與參與。修課同學必須在每次上課前閱讀指定資料,並參與課程討論。學期成績將以上課參與及報告(50%)以及期末報告(同學須就課堂討論內容相關主題撰寫專題報告,字數要求為大學部6000字以上、碩士班8000字以上、博士班10000字以上,50%)綜合評量核算。 
預期每週課前或/與課後學習時數
 
Office Hours
 
指定閱讀
1. WEN-CHEN CHANG, LI-ANN THIO, KEVIN YL TAN AND JIUNN-RONG YEH EDS, CONSTITUTIONALISM IN ASIA: CASES AND MATERIALS (Oxford, Hart Publishing, 2014)
2. 其他課程指定材料。
 
參考書目
 
評量方式
(僅供參考)
 
  1. 本校尚無訂定 A+ 比例上限。
  2. 本校採用等第制評定成績,學生成績評量辦法中的百分制分數區間與單科成績對照表僅供參考,授課教師可依等第定義調整分數區間。詳見學習評量專區 (連結)。
 
課程進度
週次
日期
單元主題
Week 1
  Course Introduction 
Week 2
  Constitution-making and State-building

Reading Materials:
WEN-CHEN CHANG, LI-ANN THIO, KEVIN YL TAN AND JIUNN-RONG YEH EDS, CONSTITUTIONALISM IN ASIA: CASES AND MATERIALS (Oxford, Hart Publishing, 2014), pp. 9-64. [Constitution-making and State-Building] 
Week 3
  Asian Values and Constitutional Culture: Asian Constitutionalism?

Reading Materials:
1. WEN-CHEN CHANG, LI-ANN THIO, KEVIN YL TAN AND JIUNN-RONG YEH EDS, CONSTITUTIONALISM IN ASIA: CASES AND MATERIALS (Oxford, Hart Publishing, 2014), pp. 65-126. [Constitutional Cultures in Asia]
2. Wen-Chen Chang, 2021.12, Asian values, Confucianism, and illiberal constitutions, in ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF ILLIBERALISM (András Sajó, Renáta Uitz & Stephen Holmes eds.) Routledge Publishing, pp. 82-93.

Optional:
1. Jiunn-rong Yeh, 2010, The Emergence of Asian Constitutionalism, 4 NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW 39, pp. 39-53.
2. Yi-Li Lee & Wen- Chen Chang, 2022.11, Mixed Constitutions in East Asia: South Korea and Taiwan as Examples, 16(2) LAW & ETHICS OF HUMAN RIGHTS 273, 273-294. 
Week 4
  Nature of Judicial Review: Judicial Power

Reading Materials:
1. WEN-CHEN CHANG, LI-ANN THIO, KEVIN YL TAN AND JIUNN-RONG YEH EDS, CONSTITUTIONALISM IN ASIA: CASES AND MATERIALS (Oxford, Hart Publishing, 2014), pp. 307-327. [Nature of Judicial Review]
2. [Malaysia Case] Semenyih Jaya Sdn Bhd v. Pentadbir Tanah Daerah Hulu Langat and another case, 3 MLJ 561 [2017]
3. [Taiwan Case] J.Y. Interpretation No. 530 
Week 5
  No class this week 
Week 6
  Institutional Design of Judicial Review (1): Centralized Model

Reading Materials:
1. WEN-CHEN CHANG, LI-ANN THIO, KEVIN YL TAN AND JIUNN-RONG YEH EDS, CONSTITUTIONALISM IN ASIA: CASES AND MATERIALS (Oxford, Hart Publishing, 2014), pp. 327-342. [Centralized Model]
2. Wen-Chen Chang & Yi-Li Lee, 2018.09, Competition or Collaboration: Constitutional Review by Multiple Final Courts, in COMPARATIVE JUDICIAL REVIEW (Erin F. Delaney & Rosalind Dixon, eds.) Edward Elgar, pp. 164-183.
3. Tom Ginsburg, 2008, Constitutional Courts in East Asia: Understanding Variation, 3 JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE LAW 80, 80-99. 
Week 7
  Institutional Design of Judicial Review (2): Decentralized Model

Reading Materials:
1. WEN-CHEN CHANG, LI-ANN THIO, KEVIN YL TAN AND JIUNN-RONG YEH EDS, CONSTITUTIONALISM IN ASIA: CASES AND MATERIALS (Oxford, Hart Publishing, 2014), pp. 342-349. [Decentralized Model] 
Week 8
  Subject of Judicial Review (1): Constitutional Amendment & Law or Parliamentary Resolution

Reading Materials:
1. WEN-CHEN CHANG, LI-ANN THIO, KEVIN YL TAN AND JIUNN-RONG YEH EDS, CONSTITUTIONALISM IN ASIA: CASES AND MATERIALS (Oxford, Hart Publishing, 2014), pp. 349-356. [Constitutional Amendment & Law or Parliamentary Resolution]
2. [Taiwan Case] J.Y. Interpretation No. 721 
Week 9
  Subject of Judicial Review (2): Administrative Rule, Emergency Decrees & Judicial Decision

Reading Materials:
1. WEN-CHEN CHANG, LI-ANN THIO, KEVIN YL TAN AND JIUNN-RONG YEH EDS, CONSTITUTIONALISM IN ASIA: CASES AND MATERIALS (Oxford, Hart Publishing, 2014), pp. 356-368. [Administrative Rule, Emergency Decrees & Judicial Decision]
2. [Singapore Case] Han Hui Hui and others v. Attorney-General [2022] SGHC 141. 
Week 10
  Judicial Appointment, Organization and Independence

Reading Materials:
1. WEN-CHEN CHANG, LI-ANN THIO, KEVIN YL TAN AND JIUNN-RONG YEH EDS, CONSTITUTIONALISM IN ASIA: CASES AND MATERIALS (Oxford, Hart Publishing, 2014), pp. 369-396. [Judicial Appointment, Organization and Independence] 
Week 11
  Forms of Judicial Decisions and Remedies

Reading Materials:
1. WEN-CHEN CHANG, LI-ANN THIO, KEVIN YL TAN AND JIUNN-RONG YEH EDS, CONSTITUTIONALISM IN ASIA: CASES AND MATERIALS (Oxford, Hart Publishing, 2014), pp. 443-461. [Judicial Appointment, Organization and Independence] 
Week 12
  Gender Equality in Review

Reading Materials:
1. Ruth Rubio-Marín, Wen-Chen Chang, Mara Malagodi & Kelley Loper, 2024.01, Gender Constitutionalism in Asia: A Comparative Framework, in GENDER, SEXUALITY, AND CONSTITUTIONALISM IN ASIA (Wen-Chen Chang et al. eds.) Hart Publishing, pp. 1-25.
2. [Taiwan Case] J.Y. Interpretation No. 748
3. [India Case] Navtej Johar v. Union of India,Writ Petition (Criminal) No. 76 of 2016 (Decision on 6 September 2018)  
Week 13
  Environmental Issue in Review

Reading Materials:
1. Sudha Kavuri & Anjana Ramanathan, 2022, Climate Change Litigation: Chronicles from the Global South. A Comparative Study, 28 COMPARATIVE LAW REVIEW 169, 169-199.
2. [Nepal Case] Advocate Padam Bahadur Shrestha, a resident of Kathmandu District, Kathmandu Metropolitan City, Ward No 10, Baneshwor Vs. The office of the Prime Minister and Council of Ministers, Singhadurbar, Kathmandu and others [2018] Supreme Court Decision No. 10210 (unofficial translation)
3. [Nepal Case] On behalf of Pro Public and on his own behalf, Advocate Prakash Mani Sharma, a resident of Ward No. 14, Kuleshwar, Kathmandu Metropolis, Kathmandu District and Others Vs. Godavari Marble Industries Pvt. Ltd. and others [2015] (unofficial translation)  
Week 14
  Public Health Emergency in Review

Reading Materials:
1. Wen-Chen Chang & Chun-Yuan Lin, 2022.05, Taiwan’s Effective Pandemic Control with Dialogic Constitutionalism, in ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK ON LAW AND THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC (Joelle Grogan & Alice Donald eds.) Routledge Publishing, pp. 311-323.
2. [India Case] Small Scale Industrial Manufactures Association (Regd.) v. Union of India and others, AIRONLINE 2021 SC 165 
Week 15
  Conclusion and Final Discussion

Transitional Constitutionalism

Reading Materials:
1. Jiunn-rong Yeh & Wen-Chen Chang, 2009, The Changing Landscape of Modern Constitutionalism: Transitional Perspective, 4 NTU LAW REVIEW 145, 145-183.
2. Jiunn-rong Yeh & Wen-Chen Chang, 2013, A Decade of Changing Constitutionalism in Taiwan: a Transitional and Transnational Perspective, in CONSTITUTIONALISM IN ASIA IN THE EARLY TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY (Albert Chen eds.) Cambridge University Press, pp. 141-168.

Transnational Constitutionalism

Reading Materials:
1. Jiunn-rong Yeh & Wen-Chen Chang, 2008, The Emergence of Transnational Constitutionalism: Its Features, Challenges and Solutions, 27 PENN STATE INTERNATIONAL LAW REVIEW 89, 89-124.
2. Wen-Chen Chang & Jiunn-rong Yeh, 2013, Judges as Discursive Agent: The Use of Foreign Precedents by the Constitutional Court of Taiwan, in THE USE OF FOREIGN PRECEDENTS BY CONSTITUTIONAL JUDGES (Tania Groppi and Marie-Claire Ponthoreau eds.) Hart Publishing, pp. 373-392.
 
Week 16
  Final reflection paper submission due