Kai-Ping Su

Kai-Ping Su
  • Name: SU, KAI-PING
  • Title: Associate Professor
  • Education: J.S.D., University of California, Berkeley School of Law
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  • Research interests: Criminal Procedure, Criminal Justice System and Court, Comparative Law, Evidence, Empirical Legal Studies and Legal Analytics
  • Teaching Areas: Criminal Procedure, Evidence, Comparative Law and Courts, Empirical Legal Studies and Legal Analytics

11/2019

BIO

My research focuses on criminal procedure and court reform in Taiwan, China, and the U.S., with an emphasis on the use of empirical research and comparative method to inform legal policy. I joined the NTU Law faculty in 2018. In addition to teaching university courses, I teach judges and prosecutors at Taiwan's High Court, the Judges Academy, and the Academy of the Judiciary. I also serve on the Committee of Criminal Procedure Reform of the Judicial Yuan, Taiwan's highest judicial organ.

        I published several books and articles, in Chinese and English, about criminal justice reform and empirical (quantitative) legal studies in Taiwan and the U.S., and frequently presented my work in global academic conferences. My recent publications have appeared in the Berkeley Journal of Criminal Law, Washington International Law Journal, and National Taiwan University Law Review. Before studying in the U.S., I had practiced law as a criminal defense lawyer in Taiwan for several years.

 

Languages

Mandarin(native); Taiwanese (native); English (fluent)

 

 EDUCATION

J.S.D., Focus on Empirical Legal Studies
School of Law, University of California,Berkeley, CA
2013-2016
LL.M., Focus on Empirical Legal Studies
School of Law, University of California, Berkeley, CA
2012-2013
Master of Laws, Major in Criminal Justice
College of Law, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
2005-2009
Bachelor of Laws
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2000-2005

 

PROFFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 

 

National Taiwan University, College of Law 

Assistant Professor of Law

  • >Principal Investigator (PI):
  1. “Establishment of A Methodology for Empirical Legal Studies in Taiwan's Criminal Procedure (II)” (2018-2019) (Research grants awarded by Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan)
  2. “Evidence Evaluation in Criminal Court Proceedings: Focuses on Relevancy and Court Discretion” (2019-2020) (Research grants awarded by Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan)
  • >Co-PI:
  1. “Expert Witness and Disclosure” (2018-2019) (Research Grants awarded by Judicial Yuan, Taiwan's highest judicial organ)
  2. “Forensic Psychology in the Information Science Age Course Group Project” (2019-2022) (Grants awarded by Ministry of Education, Taiwan)
  • >Lecturer at Judges Academy (instructing judges in courtroom broadcasting) and at Taiwan High Court (instructing High Court judges in criminal procedure, evidence law, and legal reform) (since February 2018).

  • >Scholar Representative at Governmental Advisory Committee of Criminal Procedure and Criminal Justice System (advising Taiwan's highest judicial organ on criminal procedure and criminal justice system reform) (since September 2017)

 08/2018 –

National Central University, Institute of Law and Government

Assistant Professor of Law

  • >Principal Investigator “Establishment of A Methodology for Empirical Legal Studies inTaiwan's Criminal Procedure (I)” (2017-2018) (Research grants awarded by Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan)
  • >Co-PI :
  1.  “Courtroom Broadcasting in Taiwan, the United States, Japan, Germany, and the United Kingdom” (2017) (Research Grants awarded by Judicial Yuan, Taiwan's highest judicial organ)
  2. <spanstyle="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;">Co-PI : “Empirical Study on Sentencing Strategies in Court Practice” (2017-2018) (Research grants awarded by Judicial Yuan, Taiwan's highest judicial organ)
  08/2016 – 07/2018

University of California, Berkeley, School of Law

Teaching Assistant

  • >Worked for LL.M. mandatory course “Fundamentals of U.S. Law”
  • >Led 160 international senior lawyers or partners enrolled in Berkeley Law programs for class discussion and American case law analysis
  05/2014 – 07/2014

Su & Associates Attorneys-At-Law

 Partner-in-Charge

  • >Worked on various criminal cases such as transnational narcotics trafficking, police corruption, fraud, domestic violence, etc.
  • >Offered pro bono legal service to ordinary citizens and the poor
  06/2010 – 07/2013

Chen & Lin Attorneys-At-Law

Legal Intern/Attorney at Law

  • >Worked on cases of corporate fraud, insider trading, breach of trust, and other white collar crimes
  • ><spanstyle="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;">Drafted a petition for constitutional interpretation of a criminal case regarding breach of trust
  08/2009 –05/2010

License Bar Review Institute

Senior Lecturer

  • >Taught criminal law and criminal procedure in Taiwan's largest bar review institute to thousands of students over seven years
  • ><spanstyle="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;">Wrote and published a popular criminal law textbook, “Criminal Law and Supreme Court Judgments” (now in its 5th edition)
  2005 –2013

 

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

〈Reliable or not? The Theory and Practice of Prior Statement as a Hearsay Exception〉(in Chinese), 84 Court Case Times, Taiwan.06/201947-54

Publication Title Publication Date Page
〈數位證據如何分辨真偽？如何舉證？〉，月旦法學教室(已接受刊登)。 03/2022  
〈數位證據之舉證責任與驗真──評最高法院110年度台上字第1954號刑事判決〉，台灣法律人（已接受刊登）。 02/2022  
〈最高法院運用經驗法則對國民法官法上訴審之啟示──以最高法院109年度台上字第5037號刑事判決為例〉，月旦裁判時報，第115期。 01/2022 49-55
〈Admissibility of Evidence in the Lay Participation System of Criminal Courts: With an Attention to Scientific Evidence〉(in Chinese), 50(4) National Taiwan University Law Journal, Taiwan. 12/2021 1923-1989
〈Blockchain Technology and Courtroom Evidence〉(in Chinese), 50(3) National Taiwan University Law Journal, Taiwan. 09/2021 993-1071
〈論數位證據的「替代品」之證據能力──臺灣高等法院108年度原金上訴字第1號刑事判決評析〉，月旦裁判時報，第106期。 04/2021 50-59
〈論數位證據之原件、複製品與最佳證據法則──最高法院107年度台上字第3724號等8則刑事判決評析〉，月旦法學雜誌，第311期。 04/2021 71-96
〈以司法院量刑資訊作為量刑之內部性界線？──評最高法院108年度台上字第3728號刑事判決〉，月旦裁判時報，第98期。 08/2020 85-94
〈以平等原則建立量刑原則的意義與價值：臺灣高等法院105年度交上易字第117號刑事判決評析〉，台灣法學雜誌，第393期。 06/2020 31-42
〈Free Proof in Criminal Procedure: What It Means and Why It Conflicts with Other Values〉(in Chinese), 49(1) National Taiwan University Law Journal, Taiwan. 03/2020 339-401
〈The Essence of Digital Evidence in Criminal Procedure〉(in Chinese), 93 Court Case Times, Taiwan. 03/2020 61-69
〈Development in the Law in 2018: Criminal Procedure Law〉(in Chinese), 48(Special Issue) National Taiwan University Law Journal, Taiwan. 11/2019 1703-1732
〈The Cutting Edge of Taiwan's Legal Technology Industry: An Analysis of the First Legal Hackathon and Legal Tech Development in Taiwan〉(in Chinese), 89 Court Case Times, Taiwan. 11/2019 79-91
〈The Meaning, Theory, and Application of Legal Data Analysis: Focuses on How Criminal Courts Evaluate Evidence〉(in Chinese), 294 The Taiwan Law Review, Taiwan. 11/2019 101-124
〈The Probative Value of Confession and Its Corroborating Evidence〉(in Chinese), 87 Court Case Times, Taiwan. 09/2019 57-65
〈Why the State Stops to Kill: The Death Penalty and the Rule of Law in Taiwan〉，23 Berkeley Journal of Criminal Law . 12/2018 110-134
〈The High-Risk Complex System Theory and Inevitable Errors in the Criminal Justice System: Focuses on Major Wrongful Conviction and Capital Punishment Cases〉(in Chinese), 278 The Taiwan Law Review, Taiwan. 08/2018 230-256
〈Conflicts between Constitutional Rights: Free Speech and Criminal Courtroom Broadcasting in Taiwan and the United States(in Chinese), 9 Angle Criminal Law Review, Taiwan 06/2018 100-122
〈Criminal Court Reform in Taiwan: A Case of Fragmented Reform in a Not-Fragmented Court System〉，27 Washington International Law Journal. 12/2017 203-240
〈Preventing Wrongful Conviction as A Fundamental Right: A Comment on Taiwan’s Constitutional Court Interpretation No. 752(in Chinese), 66 Court Case Times, Taiwan. 12/2017 88-100
〈The Right to Proceed Pro Se (Self-representation) of Criminal Defendants in Taiwan〉(in Chinese), 257 The Taiwan Law Review, Taiwan. 10/2016 113-142
〈Revisiting the Concept and the Merits of Empirical Legal Studies: Lessons from Taiwan’s Commutation Policy〉(in Chinese), 45(3) National Taiwan University Law Journal, Taiwan. 09/2016 979-1043
〈How Taiwan’s Courts Deal With Statement of Witnesses before a Prosecutor as Hearsay Exception: A Highest Court Ruling and Its Influence on Lower Court Decisions〉(in Chinese), 253 The Taiwan Law Review, Taiwan. 06/2016 158-180

 

PRESENTATIONS

Presentation Title Presentation Date
〈美國的上訴審查法則：以無害錯誤與明顯錯誤為核心〉
 發表於「國民法官法視角下的上訴制度」研討會，臺北，臺灣。		 01/2022
〈美國法醫制度之研究〉
 發表於臺灣大學法律學院刑事法中心「法醫鑑定制度之現狀與發展」研討會，臺北，臺灣。		 11/2021
〈刑事法院中的行為科學：以司法程序與量刑決策為中心〉
 發表於中央研究院法律學研究所「法律與行為經濟學」研討會，臺北，臺灣。		 10/2021
"AI for Digital Evidence and Forensics in Courts: A Comparative Study of Taiwan and the United States"
 Presentation on Law and Society Association Annual Meeting 2021, Chicago, U.S.A.		 05/2021
〈論數位證據之原件、複製品與最佳證據法則──最高法院107年度台上字第3724號等8則刑事法院判決評析〉
 發表於國立高雄大學法學院比較刑法研究中心「2020年度（第二屆）研討會：經濟刑法的在地實踐」，臺中，臺灣。		 08/2020
"Transformation of Evidence Law in the Digital Era──A Focus on Three Evidential Principles"
 Presentation on Annual Meeting on Law and Society 2020, Denver, Colorado, U.S.A.		 05/2020
〈臺灣高等法院105年度交上易字第117號公共危險案件刑事判決評析〉
 發表於「臺灣高等法院及所屬法院民事類具參考價值裁判評析」研討會，臺北，臺灣。		 24/04/2020
〈區塊鏈科技與法庭證據：原理與應用〉
 發表於「刑事法青年論壇（六）」研討會，臺灣。		 11/04/2020
"Technology and Law: Digital Evidence Sharing, Security, and Verification Based on Blockchain"
 Presentation on Symposium on Technology and the Future of Law, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany.		 02-03/12/2019
"The Rise of a New Species of Legal Professional in the AI Era: What Legal Analysts Are and What Takes to Train Them"
 Presentation on 2nd International Conference of CISS on AI for Social Sciences, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan.		 18-19/10/2019
〈AI 時代「法律分析師」職業的興起及其應有的訓練〉
 發表於2019第二屆國際與社會科學學院國際研討論「跨領域新思維：人工智慧（AI）與人文社會科學的對話 」，臺北，臺灣。		 10/2019
"Evidence Law and Human Rights: How Common Law Evidential Traditions Have Influenced Legal Policies and Practice in Taiwan and China"
 Presentation on 16th Asian Law Institute (ASLI) Conference, National University of Singapore, Singapore.		 11-12/06/2019
"Admissibility and Exclusion of Evidence in the Digital Era — The New Challenges"
 Presentation on The Development of Digital Technology and the Future of Law, National Taiwan University, College of Law, Taipei, Taiwan.		 03/2019
"The Law of Evidence and the Rule of Law: A Comparative Study of Criminal Court Practice in Taiwan and China"
 Presentation on Symposium on Comparative Legal Issues: Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Macao, University of Hong Kong, Faculty of Law-Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.		 14-15/02/2019
"Rethinking Evidence Law with Legal Data Analytics in Taiwan's Criminal Procedure"
 Presentation on Co-Faculty Academic Conference Between NTU Law, HKU Law, Berkely Law and Radboud Law, Taipei, Taiwan.		 11/2018
〈刑事訴訟構造與人民憲法權利──以「裝配線司法」的理論與實證為中心〉
 發表於「刑事訴訟金字塔化之挑戰」研討會，臺北，臺灣。		 19/10/2018
"Why the Era of Capital Punishment is Not Ending? — An Empirical Analysis of Taiwan's Moratorium and Resumption of the Death Penalty"
 Presentation on 2018 Comparative Legal Issues: Taiwan and the United States (The Third Symposium: National Taiwan University-Berkeley Law), Berkeley, Calfornia, U.S.A.		 12/10/2018
〈法律數據分析與刑事證據：概念的建立、學習與運用〉
 發表於「第二屆兩岸刑事法論壇」，臺北，臺灣。		 17/09/2018
"The More, The Better? Applying Complexity Theory to Judicial Reform — A Focus on Lay Participation Proposals in Taiwan"
 resentation on Annual Meeting on Law and Society 2018, Sheraton Centre –Toronto, Canada.		 07-10/06/2018
〈傳聞證據的價值與缺陷：以刑事司法系統運作的複雜性為研究取徑〉
 發表於「春風煦日論壇2018學術研討會—刑事法與憲法的對話」，臺北，臺灣。		 20/04/2018
"Why the State Stops to Kill: The Death Penalty and the Rule of Law in Taiwan"
 Presentation on The Berkeley Journal of Criminal Law Symposium Honoring Professor Franklin E.Zimring, UC Berkeley School of Law-Berkeley, Calfornia, U.S.A.		 16/03/2018
"Politics and Criminal Procedure Reform: Past, Present, and Future of Capital Punishment in Taiwan"
 Presentation on 2017 Asian Law and Society Conference, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan.		 15-16/12/2017
"Complexity Theory and the Rule of Law: Using Complexity Approaches for Analyzing Judicial Reform in Taiwan"
 Presentation on Complexity, Legal and Institutional Change, and Rule of Law Conference, John Felice Rome Center Campus of Loyola University Chicago School of Law, Rome, Italy.		 01-02/12/2017
"Complex Systems and Criminal Court Reform: An Example of Taiwan’s Criminal Justice System"
 Presentation on 2017 Conference on Current Legal Issues in Taiwan and the United States, UC Berkeley Law Faculty and National Taiwan University College of Law Faculty, Taipei, Taiwan		 20/10/2017
〈刑事司法系統運作下的「不可避免錯誤」：以死刑案件為中心〉
 發表於「判生或判死？— 2017臺灣死刑判決研討會」，臺北，臺灣。		 07/10/2017
〈法庭公開播送比較研究 — 美國法〉
 發表於「法庭公開播送之比較研究」研討會，臺北，高雄，臺灣。		 05/2017
"Why Do We Let the Punishment Tail Wag the Conviction Dog?— A New Approach to Study of Criminal Procedure in Taiwan and the U.S."
 Presentation on Queen Mary Postgraduate Legal Research Conference On ‘Embracing New Approaches’, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom.		 03/06/2017
"Why Do We Let the Punishment Tail Wag the Conviction Dog? — A New Approach"
 Presentation on The 3rd Annual TAU Workshop for Junior Scholars in Law, Tel-Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel. (Sponsored by Tel-Aviv University)		 26-27/10/2015
"Great Crime Decline in Taiwan and the U.S.: An Empirical and Comparative Perspective"
 Presentation on Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, Westin Seattle, Seattle, Washington, U.S.A.		 28-31/05/2015
"The Two-Way Influences between Law and Society: Unexpected Social-Legal Transformations Resulted from Taiwan’s 2007 Commutation Policy"
 Presentation on The Second Conference for Junior Researchers On Law and Social Transformations, Stanford Law School, Stanford, California, U.S.A.		 15-16/05/2015
"The Will of the People in Taiwan: How Public Opinion Has Influenced Prosecutors and Judges in Criminal Proceedings"
 Presentation on The Fourth Annual Western Empirical Legal Studies Conference, University of California, Los Angeles, School of Law(UCLA Law), Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.		 07/05/2015
"Taiwan's Great Crime Decline and Policing Policy: An Empirical Perspective"
 Presentation on The Third Annual Conference of The Younger Comparativists Committee of the American Society of Comparative Law, Lewis & Clark Law School, Portland, Oregon, U.S.A.		 04-05/04/2015
"Governmental Privilege and Criminal Trial: Experience and Practice from Taiwan"
 Presentation on Conference on Criminal Justice and Taiwan's Constitutional Court: Comparative Perspective, New York University School of Law, New York, U.S.A.		 01-02/04/2011
"Search, Seizure and Governmental Privilege"(in Chinese and Japanese)
 Presentation on Taiwan-Japan Academic Exchange Symposium in Legal Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan.		 25-26/10/2008
"Dark Privilege: State Secrets Privilege"(in Chinese)
 Presentation on Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure Law Forum, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan.		 03/2008

Books

  Book Title publication Date 
1 "Criminal Law and Supreme Court Judgments" (in Chinese), 5th ed.
Published by License Publishing Co., Taiwan.		 2015
2 "Governmental Privilege and Criminal Trial" (in Chinese)
Published by Angle Publishing Co., Taiwan.
(This book was published by Taiwan's largest legal information group and has been held in the collections of Taiwan's National Central Library, Taiwan's Library of Congress, National Library of China, and many university libraries in Taiwan and China.)		 2011

 

Other Writings

Book Chapters:"Psychology and Justice in Taiwan"
Written with Yee-San Teoh, published by "Research Handbook in Law and Psychology". Massachusetts, USA: Edward Elgar Publishing. (Accepted)		 2022
Book Chapters: "What Common Law Evidence Rules Mean for Taiwanese Courts: A Focus on Casus Omissus of Hearsay Exceptions" (in Chinese)
Festschrift for Professor Jerome A. Cohen.		 2020
Book Chapters: "A Broader Definition of Empirical Legal Studies" and "Descriptive Statistics" (in Chinese)
Published by "Reading Materials of Empirical Legal Studies", edited by Jin-hua Cheng and Yun-chien Chang, Ch. 4 and Ch. 14. Beijing, China: Law Press·China.
Excerpts from "Revisiting the Concept and the Merits of Empirical Legal Studies: Lessons from Taiwan’s Commutation Policy" (in Chinese).		 2019
Translation: “J.Y. Interpretation 636" and “J.Y. Interpretation 384”
Published by “Leading Cases of the Taiwan Constitutional Court, Volume II”, edited by the Judicial Yuan. Taipei, Taiwan.		 2020
Book Chapters: "The Conflict between Criminal Defendants’ Constitutional Rights and Governmental Privilege and Its Best Solution" (in Chinese)
Published by Veracity Foundation of Legal Studies, ed., Compilation of Research on Judgments (XIV), Taiwan.		 2010