East Asia Program
Fengyue Lisa Zhao
Graduate Student
Degree Pursued: PhD
Anticipated Degree Year: 2028
Committee Chair: Sam Tilsen
Discipline: Linguistics
Research Interests: Linguistics, Speech Science
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Xingruo Zhang
Graduate Student
Degree Pursued: PhD
Anticipated Degree Year: 2029
Discipline: ILR
Research Interests: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; Culture; Perception; Decision Making
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"Justices Must Be Seen to Be Legitimate”: The (Post-Reform) Legitimacy Challenge of the Taiwan Constitutional Court, 2019-2025
November 5, 2026
12:00 pm
Hughes Hall, L28 (Zhu Room)
Speaker: Ming-Sung Kuo, University of Warwick School of Law
Title: "Justices Must Be Seen to Be Legitimate”: The (Post-Reform) Legitimacy Challenge of the Taiwan Constitutional Court, 2019-2025
Abstract: In this presentation, I take up one unasked question in the discussion of the legitimacy of judicial review, ‘Can procedural transparency do harm to the legitimacy of constitutional courts?’, by looking into the continued pursuit of judicialization of constitutional interpretation in Taiwan. Through an examination of the Taiwan Constitutional Court’s crisis despite the landmark 2019 procedural reform, I suggest that when a court intervenes actively only on grounds of procedural legitimacy, it may still not be seen as legitimate in the eyes of the people.
About East Asia Program
As Cornell’s hub for research, teaching, and engagement with East Asia, the East Asia Program (EAP) serves as a forum for the interdisciplinary study of historical and contemporary East Asia. The program draws its membership of over 45 core faculty and numerous affiliated faculty, graduate, and undergraduate students from eight of Cornell’s 12 schools and colleges.
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Einaudi Center for International Studies
East Asia Program
Edward Dehua Wang
Graduate Student
Degree Pursued: PhD
Anticipated Degree Year: 2032
Committee Chair: Shaoling Ma
Discipline: Asian Studies
Research Interests: critical posthumanities, ecomedia, visual culture, sinophone studies
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Jacqueline Liu
Graduate Student
Degree Pursued: PhD
Anticipated Degree Year: 2029
Committee Chair: Begüm Adalet
Discipline: Government
Research Interests: Hong Kong diaspora, postcolonial sovereignty, political culture, ethnographic methods
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Yixuan Hu
Graduate Student
Degree Pursued: PhD
Anticipated Degree Year: 2031
Committee Chair: Imane Terhmina
Discipline: Francophone studies
Research Interests: I study how Sino-African extractive and infrastructural relations are mediated in contemporary Francophone literature and film, with a primary corpus drawn from the Congolese world.
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Hyunjung Kim
Graduate Student
Degree Pursued: PhD
Anticipated Degree Year: 2032
Committee Chair: Ivanna Sang Een Yi
Discipline: Asian Literature Religion and Culture
Primary Countries: Korea
Research Interests: Modern Korean literature and culture, state violence, collective memory, representation, and memory studies.
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Manwen Zhang
Graduate Student
Degree Pursued: PhD
Anticipated Degree Year: 2031
Discipline: Linguistics
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Addi Liu
Graduate Student
Degree Pursued: PhD
Anticipated Degree Year: 2028
Committee Chair: Andrew J. Hicks
Discipline: Music and Sound Studies
Research Interests: music theory; Jesuit studies; Kangxi court; global history; hand diagrams
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Advantage China in New Delhi's BRICS Summit?
Allen Carlson, EAP/SAP/SEAP
Allen R. Carlson, a Cornell University government associate professor, commented on China's central role in shaping the BRICS summit agenda.