Institute of Law for Science and
Technology, NTHULien, Meng-Chi

Dr. Meng-Chi Lien is an associate professor at the Institute of Law for Science and Technology at National Tsing Hua University. She teaches criminal law, criminal procedure law, and seminar on criminal law. Before joining the Institute, Professor Lien was a senior researcher at Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law in Freiburg, Germany. She is now a member of the European Forum for Restorative Justice, the Deutsch-Chinesische Juristenvereinigung e.V. (German-Chinese Jurists’ Association), Taiwan Law Society and deputy secretary-general of Association of Economic Criminal Law.

Prof. Lien has been devoted herself to researches regarding judicial reform issues in Taiwan. She is a member of Policy Advisory Group at Taiwanese Ministry of Justice and also an expert consultant for the Judicial Yuan. Besides, she has been frequently invited to give lectures to judicial officers at the Judges Academy of Taiwan. Her research interests include comparative criminal procedure (Germany vs. Taiwan), confiscation of illegal proceeds, covert investigation methods, crime victims’ rights, and restorative justice (victim-offender mediation). Her current research projects focus on the reform of confiscation law and criminal enforcement in Taiwan.