Institute of Law for Science and
Technology, NTHUChen, Wan-Yu

Professor Wan-Yu Chen is an associate professor of civil law. She teaches General Provisions of Civil Law, Property Law, General Provisions of Obligations, Civil Law, Legal History, and Selected Readings of Japanese Jurisprudence. She earned her Bachelor and Master’s Degree of Laws from NTU, Taiwan (2001, 2005). Professor Chen was admitted to the Taipei Bar Association. Having practiced law for 1 year and 6 months in Taiwan, she obtained a National Science Council scholarship and went to Kyoto University as a research student in 2007. Professor Chen has been a Research Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science（2010-2012）and a co-researcher of the International Research Center for Japanese Studies (2009-2011). She earned her doctorate degree (Doctor of Laws) from Kyoto University in March, 2012. Her doctoral thesis (Mortgage Law and the Society in Taiwan under Japanese Colonial Rule) was published in Japan in November 2012. Professor Chen’s main research areas are civil law, legal history of Taiwan, legal history of Japan, law and society. Her current projects focus on the right of land relations in the Republican Era of China. More recently, Professor Chen received the Outstanding Teaching Award from NTHU in 2019.