Major Teaching and Research Interest

• Family Law
• Estates and Trusts
• Elder Law
• Legal Analytics
• Empirical Legal Studies

Bio

Professor Sieh-Chuen Huang is a professor of civil law. She received her Bachelor Degree of Laws from NTU, Taiwan (2001) and the master and doctoral degree (Doctor of Juridical Science) from Hokkaido University, Japan (2004 and 2006). Professor Huang has been an assistant professor of law at Hokkaido University (2006-2009), and a visiting scholar at East Asian Legal Studies Program, Harvard Law School (2008-2009). She joined the College of Law at NTU in August 2009 and focuses her research interests on family law, guardianship, trusts and estates, empirical legal studies and legal analytics. Her major publications include Adult Guardianship in Taiwan: A Focus on Guardian Financial Decision-Making and the Family's Role, 9 Journal of International Aging Law & Policy 127-150 (2016) and Family Law in Taiwan: Historical Legacies and Current Issues 14(2) NTU Law Review 157-218 (2019).

Education

• Hokkaido University, Doctor of Juridical Science, June 2006
• Hokkaido University, Master of Laws, March 2004
• Hokkaido University, One-year exchange student at Faculty of Law, October 1999-September 2000
• National Taiwan University, Bachelor of Laws, January 2001

Employment

• College of Law, National Taiwan University
  • Professor, Aug 2020-present
  • Associate Professor, Aug 2014-Jul 2020
  • Assistant Professor, Aug 2009-Jul 2014
• Faculty of Law, Hokkaido University
  • Assistant Professor, Jul 2006-Mar 2009

Academic Experience

• College of Law, National Taiwan University
  • Editor-in-Chief, NTU Law Review, Aug 2020-Jul 2022
  • Director of Civil Law Center, Aug 2020- Jul 2022
  • Deputy Director of International Office, College of Law, Aug 2015-Jul 2018
• Taiwan Family Law Association
  • Member of Council, Oct 2020-present
  • Secretary, Oct 2016-Oct 2020
• Faculty of Law, Hokkaido University
  • Visiting Scholar, Jun 2016-Aug 2016
  • Visiting Scholar, Jun 2010-Aug 2010
• School of Law, Waseda University
  • Visiting Scholar, Aug 2013-Jan 2014
• Harvard Law School
  • Visiting Scholar, Aug Sep 2017-Feb 2018
  • Visiting Scholar, Aug 2008-Aug 2009

Professional Awards, Fellowships, and Honors

• NTU Academic Advancement Young Chair Professorship, 2024-27.
• NTU Research Performance Award, 2021-25.
• Tsai Wan-Tsai Chair Professorship, College of Law, NTU, 2022.
• Outstanding Teaching Award, National Taiwan University, 2020.
• Outstanding Mentoring Award, National Taiwan University, 2020.
• Excellent Young Scholars, Ministry of Technology and Science, 2019.
• Excellence in Teaching, National Taiwan University, 2014, 16, 18, 19.
• Excellence in Teaching, College of Law, National Taiwan University, 2012, 2013 and 2015.
• Japan-Taiwan Exchange Association Fellowships, 2010 and 2016.
• Hokkaido University Otsuka Award, 2006.
• Japan-Taiwan Exchange Association Scholarship, 2002-2004.
• NTU Presidential Award, 2001.

Selected Publications (English only)

Selected Articles

• Yun-Chien Chang, Sieh-Chuen Huang, & Su-Li Her, Son Preference: An Empirical Study of Estate Distribution in Wills, Cornell International Law Journal (SSCI), accepted (17-July-2024)
• Li-Jung Elizabeth Ku, Sieh-Chuen Huang, Yi-Han Liao, Hsin-Yu Kang, & Chao-An Chung, Exploring Financial Abuse Involving People with Dementia: an Empirical Legal Study of Nation-Wide Court Rulings over a Decade in Taiwan, Ageing & Society (SSCI), accepted (21-July-2023) links
• Hsuan-Lei Shao, Robert B Leflar, and Sieh-Chuen Huang, Factors Determining Child Custody in Taiwan after Patriarchy’s Decline: Applying Decision Tree Analysis to Family Court Decisions, 18(2) Asian Journal of Comparative Law (National University of Singapore) (SCOPUS) 272-288 (2023) links
• Toru Morichi & Sieh-Chuen Huang, Supported Decision-Making for Persons with Intellectual Disabilities in Japan and Taiwan: a Survey of Social Workers’ and Adult Guardians’ Awareness of Supported Decision-Making, forthcoming, International Journal of Developmental Disabilities (SSCI) (2022) links
• Yun-Ru Chen & Sieh-Chuen Huang, Family Law in Taiwan: Historical Legacies and Current Issues, 14(2) NTU L. REV. 157-218 (TSSCI) (2019) links
• Hsuan-Lei Shao, Sieh-Chuen Huang & Yun-Cheng Tsai How the Taiwanese Do China Studies: Applications of Text Mining, Journal of Data Mining and Digital Humanities, jdmdh: 4470 (2018) links
• Sieh-chuen Huang, Adult Guardianship in Taiwan: A Focus on Guardian Financial Decision-making and the Family’s Role, 9 J. INT’L AGING L. & POL’Y 127-150 (2016) links

Book Chapter

• Hsuan-Lei Shao, Yu-Ying Huang, & Sieh-Chuen Huang, Prediction Model for Drunk Driving Sentencing: Applying TextCNN to Chinese Judgement Texts. In: Yada, K., Takama, Y., Mineshima, K., Satoh, K. (eds) New Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, pp. 3-15. JSAI-isAI 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13856. Springer, Cham. (July 2023) links
• Lin Minae, Sieh-Chuen Huang & Hsuan-Lei Shao, Less is Better: Constructing Legal Question Answering System by Weighing Longest Common Subsequence of Disjunctive Union Text. In: Takama, Y., Yada, K., Satoh, K., Arai, S. (eds) New Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence. JSAI-isAI 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13859. Springer, Cham (April 2023) links
• Sieh-chuen Huang. 2023. Adult Guardianship in Taiwan in Light of CRPD. Laurent Mayali and Kuan-Ling Shen eds. Current Legal Issues in American and Taiwanese Law, pp. 47-69. Robbins Collection, California. links；download
• Hsuan-Lei Shao, Yi-Chia Chen & Sieh-Chuen Huang, BERT-Based Ensemble Model for Statute Law Retrieval and Legal Information Entailment, In: Okazaki N., Yada K., Satoh K., Mineshima K. (eds) New Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence. JSAI-isAI 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 12758. Springer, Cham (February 2021) links
• Sieh-chuen Huang. 2015. Adult Guardianship and Care in Taiwan: An Analysis on Decisions relating to Compensation for Guardian. Dagmar Cöster-Waltjen, Volker Lipp, Donovan W.M. Waters eds. Liber Amicorum Makoto Arai, pp. 375-392. Baden-Baden: Nomos. links