葉 俊榮

Jiunn-rong Yeh is a Professor at the National Taiwan University College of Law and director of the College’s Public Law Research Center. He was also the Vice Dean of the College and was in charge of academic affairs and international collaboration. He teaches public law, environmental law, law and economics, and torts. Professor Yeh received his J.S.D. from Yale Law School and has held teaching positions in many major foreign institutions. He taught at the Transnational Law Program at Duke Law School, Hong Kong, in 1995, and Transformative Constitution and Rule of Law in East Asia at the School of International and Public Affairs of Columbia University in 1999. He was named Distinguished Visiting Faculty 2000-2001 by the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto, where he taught Transformative Constitutionalism in East Asia during Fall 2000. In 2004, he was the instructor of the course Comparative Constitutionalism at Harvard Law School.

Professor Yeh is known for his policy science approach to various law and policy issues, including constitutional changes, environmental policies and regulatory processes. Professor Yeh’s extensive publications of books and articles, in both English and Chinese, cover topics such as constitutional law, environmental law, and administrative law. He also received the Award of Excellence in Research from Taiwan’s National Science Council.

Professor Yeh is actively involved in many constitutional, legislative and regulatory issues in Taiwan. He argued in front of the Council of Grand on the constitutional issue of the Fourth Nuclear Power Plant installation, and he also headed or participated in the drafting of several major legislative bills, including the Freedom of Information Act, the Administrative Procedural Act, the Superfund Law, and the Greenhouse Gas Control Act.

Professor Yeh joined the Cabinet of Taiwan as a Minister without Portfolio in 2002, in charge of inter-ministerial coordination. In addition, he serves as Executive Director of two important councils chaired by the Premier: the National Council for Sustainable Development and the Council for Organic Reform. In 2005, Professor Yeh was elected Secretary-General of the National Assembly that approved the constitutional revision proposals by Legislative Yuan. In 2006, Professor Yeh was appointed as Distinguished Professor by National Taiwan University. He is now director of the Public Law Research Center.