College of Law, National Taiwan University had signed an scholarly exchange agreement with Graduate School of Law, Meiji University, Japan on November 21st, 2014, which made two of us sister schools. In order to strengthen the bond between the two schools, the 1st exchange seminar took place on March 13th, 2015. We are of course looking forward to more of these similar opportunities that serve as platforms for scholars from both schools.

In the 1st exchange seminar, Dean AonoSatoru, Professor Kawachi Hiroyuki among other professors from Meiji, Dean Ming-Yan Shieh, Professor Sheng-Lin Jan, and Professor Kuan-Ling Shen from NTU were invited to participate and comment. Also, 3 doctoral students from each school presented their research about civil law structure, contracts, and civil law procedure.

Through this seminar, both parties had the opportunity to better understand civil law issues of each other. We also gained different perspectives regarding Taiwan’s civil laws from comments provided by Professors from Meiji. We believe that this exchange seminar would be a stepping stone for a long lasting academic relationship between NTU and Meiji.

With a continued interaction in the future, laws research of both schools and even of both countries would largely benefit from this opportunity.