Projects and Activities

International Conference Presentations (Selected)

• 2025.09.04. Meng-Chi Lien, Enhancing Public Trust in the Judiciary Through Lay Participation Reform in Taiwanese Criminal Justice – At the Expense of the Defendant’s Rights? at the 25nd Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology. Place: Athen, Greece.

• 2025.09.04. Yun-Tiao Lin, Meng-Chi Lien, Daw-Wei Wang: A Quantitative and Empirical Study of Sentencing Disparities in Aggravated Fraud Cases through Statistical and Machine Learning Approaches. at the 25nd Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology. Place: Athen, Greece.

• 2023.09.07. Chung-Yen Chen, Meng-Chi Lien, Albert Tsai: Secure a Fair Trial Through Evidence Exclusionary Rules in Taiwan – An empirical assessment to criminal court judgments at the 23nd Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology.
  Place: Florence, Italy.

• 2022.09.23. Meng-Chi Lien, Yun-Tiao Lin: Using AI to conduct sentencing research – an innovative approach to document analysis at the 22nd Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology.
  Place: Malaga, Spain.

• 2021.11.24. Use of Personal Data Collected from Anti-Covid-Measures for Criminal Investigation in Taiwan at the International Conference “New Constitutionalism and Rule of Law during the COVID-19 Pandemic”, Konrad Adenauer Stiftung and the Institute of Law for Science and Technology, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan.
  Place: Taipei, Taiwan and online.

• 2019.07.03. Recent Victim-Oriented Developments in Taiwanese Criminal Procedure at REMEP‘s last Summer School on “Understanding Social Order-Retaliation, Mediation and Punishment”.
  Place: Seminarhotel Sonnenhof Hinterzarten, Black Forest, Germany.

• 2019.04.10. Balancing Privacy and Security – Legal Challenge of Using New Technology to Fight against Crime in Taiwan, 2019 Advanced Seminar in EU Criminal Law and Policy – “EU Internal and External Security” at the Inter University Centre Dubrovinik.
  Place: Dubrovnik, Croatia.

• 2018.08.01. Recent Victim-Oriented Developments in Taiwanese Criminal Procedure, Presentation at the Sino-German Seminar on Challenges to the Criminal Justice Policy at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law.
  Place: Freiburg, Germany.

• 2018.06.14. Restorative Justice Practices in Taiwan — Do we need Restorative Justice in a Society with Cultural Preference for Mediation?, Presentation at the 10th International EFRJ Conference (EFRJ: European Forum for Restorative Justice).
  Place: Tirana, Albania.

• 2017.07.11. Strengthening the Position of Victims of Crimes in Taiwan, Presentation at the International Symposium on Challenges of Criminal Trials at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law.
  Place: Freiburg, Germany.

• 2014.06.12. Mediation in Criminal Matters in Chinese and Taiwanese Criminal Justice Systems – the Oriental Experiences of the RJ Movement. Presentation at the 8th International Conference of the European Forum for Restorative Justice: Beyond Crime. Pathways to Desistance, Social Justice and Peacebuilding.
  Place: Belfast, UK.