Professor Sheng-Lin Jan graduated from the Department of Law and the Graduate Institute of Law, NTU in 1979 and 1984 respectively. After several years of being practicing attorney, he pursued his Doctor of Laws at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany and earned the degree of Dr. iur. in Feburary1992. Professor Jan has become a faculty member at the Department of Law at NTU since August 1992. He specializes in civil law, consumer protection law, government procurement law and comparative private law, and has prolifically written articles on issues of these topics. Professor Jan is the author of several well-known books. He has served as the founding Director of the Graduate Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies and Vice Dean of the College of Law, NTU. He mainly teaches Civil Code-General Principles, Civil Code-Law of Obligations, Consumer Protection Law, Chinese Civil Law, Case Studies on Contract Law and Tort Law, Case Studies on the Development of the Supreme Court Decisions, and Comparative Study on German Court Decisions.

Professor Jan is also editor of several renowned national and international law journals or periodicals.