Institute of Law for Science and
Technology, NTHULin, Yun-Hsien

Dr. Yun-Hsien Diana Lin is Associate Professor at Institute of Law for Science and Technology, National Tsing Hua University (NTHU). She received her LL.B. from National Taiwan University; LL.M. and J.S.D. from the University of California, Berkeley and passed New York Bar Exam in 2004. Professor Lin joined NTHU in 2005 and served as the Director for GLLB Program during 2017-2020. She was a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley’s Center of Comparative and International Law and University of British Columbia, Faculty of Law.

Professor Lin's scholarship focuses the legal regulation of intimate life, including marriage and the alternatives, as well as the role that assisted reproductive technologies play in shaping family law and bioethics. She teaches Family law and Succession, Legal Research and Legal Writing, and up-level Seminars on Reproductive Justice. Her academic articles appeared in international journals such as University of Pennsylvania East Asia Law Review, Asian-Pacific Law & Policy Journal (University of Hawaii) and Asian Bioethics Review (National University of Singapore). Other refereed articles are included in books published by Routledge, Academia Sinica, Hong Kong Shue Yan University Press...etc.

As an established scholar in gender equality, Professor Lin was invited to offer courses for Taiwan ROC Judges Academy, Taiwan Bar Association and central government departments. Professor Lin also serves as the founding board member of Taiwan Family Law Society, besides of various consulting positions appointed by Taiwan Ministry of Justice, Ministry of Health and Welfare, Ministry of Interiors, and Ministry of Education. Her draft of bill has been passed by the Congress in 2019 as Act for Implementation of Judicial Yuan Interpretation No. 748, which made Taiwan the first Asian country to legalize same-sex marriage.