The Legal Culture and System of Taiwan

With a special place among the world's important trading countries, Taiwan
presents the international practitioner with its own particular legal issues
and problems. Among the world's most many-sourced legal systems, the law of
Taiwan sustains major elements from Chinese and Japanese sources as well as
its own indigenous and traditional rules and strong influences from both civil
and common law traditions.

This convenient guide, written by a scholar-practitioner who is both Dean of
Law at the National Taiwan University and a panelist in the World Trade
Organization's Dispute Settlement Body, is an ideal introduction and practical
handbook for anyone involved in a transaction that raises issues in Taiwanese
law. After detailed summaries of Taiwan's system of government, its court
system, sources of law, and administrative law and procedure, the author
covers practice and procedure in such fields of legal activity as the
following:

contracts;

torts;

consumer protection;

property rights;

family law;

law of succession;

alternative dispute resolution;

intellectual property law;

trade;

government procurement;

labor law; and

criminal law and procedure.

International lawyers will find all the legal situations most likely to arise
in the course of transactions connected to Taiwan covered expertly and
knowledgeably in this very useful book. It is also valuable to students and
scholars for its special insights into issues of comparative law.