Foundations of Taiwanese Law Executive Education Programme - Launch 2025

Due to its location and political situation, Taiwan is of growing importance in terms of geostrategy and security policy. 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 of them in the field of law. Therefore, the only option for lawyers who want to specialise in Taiwan is to pursue a double or second degree in sinology with a focus on Taiwan.

Initiated by Jun-Prof Dr Weitzdörfer’s predecessor, Prof Dr Hans-Peter Marutschke, more than ten years ago, there have been efforts and preparations to expand the range of programmes from the established programme on Japanese law offered by the FernUniversität to include the legal systems of other East Asian countries. Since Jun-Prof Dr Weitzdörfer took over the Junior Professorship of East Asian Law, the focus has been on incorporating other legal systems.

Foto: Leonard Kosub

Following 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 2025 as the first offering to include an East Asian legal system other than Japanese law, a third executive education programme on Taiwanese law will be added towards the end of 2025. This degree programme will also be the first to offer a university degree in Taiwanese law outside of East Asia.

The program’s 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, such that all three fields of study can be offered as a modular LLM 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 coincide 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)

Course unit RV – Introduction to Comparative Law

Module 1: Public Law (10 ECTS)

Course unit T1 – Taiwan: Society, Politics and Economy – Prof Dr Yu-Fang Hsu (Soochow University)

Course unit T2 – Historical Background of the Private Law System – Prof Dr Jia-He Lin (National Chengchi University)

Course unit T3 – Judicial System in the Past and Present – Prof Dr Ling-Ching Fu (National Chengchi University)

Course unit T4 – Constitutional Law I: State Organisation Law – Prof Dr Po-Yen Hu (Soochow University)

Course unit T5 – Constitutional Law II: Fundamental Rights – Director Prof Dr Chien-Liang Lee (Academia Sinica)

Course 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)

Course unit T7 – Private Law I: Overview – Dean Prof Dr Cheng-Hsian Hsu (National Chengchi University) / Prof Dr Ming-En Hsiang (National Chengchi University)

Course unit T8 – Privatw Law II: General Part of the Taiwanese Civil Code – Prof Dr Sung-Mao Huang (Academia Sinica)

Course unit T9 – Private Law III: General Part of Contract Law – Prof Dr Ming-En Hsiang (National Chengchi University)

Course unit T10 – Private Law IV: Special Part of Contract Law – N.N.

Course 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)​​​​​​​

Course unit T12 – Family Law – N.N.

Course unit T13 – Management without Mandate and Unjust Enrichment – N.N.

Course 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 5: Specialisation in Taiwanese Intellectual Property Law and Technology Law (10 ECTS)

Developed in cooperation with the ​​​​​​Faculty of Law at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University​​​​​​​​​​​​​​