Press Release
2024/01/17
The Judicial Yuan and the Taiwan Constitutional Court sincerely welcome the visit of the Delegation of Faculty of Law, Palacký University Olomouc
Photo description: The visit of the delegation of Faculty of Law, Palacký University Olomouc.
From left to right: Justice Chung-Wu CHEN, Justice Ming-Yan SHIEH, Justice Sheng-Lin JAN, Prof. Dr. I-Hsun Sandy Chou (Fulbright Scholar at Faculty of Law, Palacký University, translator of this visit), Mr. Aaron Milchiker, Vice-Dean JUDr. Martin Faix (Faculty of Law, Palacký University), Dean JUDr. Václav Stehlík, Chief Justice Tzong-Li HSU, Justice Jeong-Duen TSAI, Justice Jui-Ming HUANG, Justice Jau-Yuan HWANG, Justice Tsai-Chen TSAI, and Justice Po-Hsiang YU.
TAIPEI, January 17, 2024. On January 9, the Judicial Yuan and the Taiwan Constitutional Court (TCC) welcomed the visit of the delegation of the Faculty of Law, Palacký University Olomouc. The delegation members include Dean JUDr. Václav Stehlík, Vice-Dean JUDr. Martin Faix, Prof. Dr. I-Hsun Sandy Chou, and Mr. Aaron Milchiker. On behalf of the Judicial Yuan and the TCC, the President of the Judicial Yuan, Chief Justice Tzong-Li HSU, expressed sincere welcome to the delegation upon their meeting. Their meeting was accompanied by Vice President Jeong-Duen TSAI, Justice Jui-Ming HUANG, Justice Sheng-Lin JAN, Justice Jau-Yuan HWANG, Justice Ming-Yan SHIEH, Justice Tsai-Chen TSAI, Justice Chung-Wu CHEN, Justice Po-Hsiang YU, and Director-General Colin Yang of the TCC.
During the delegation's visit, Dean Stehlík and Vice-Dean Faix delivered a speech under the title "Transition to Democracy in the Czech Republic: from totality to the EU membership." Their speech illuminated the intricate facets of the Czech Republic's transition from communist rule to democracy. In the first half of the speech, Vice-Dean Faix focused on the part of transitional justice and the prosecution of crimes during the communist past. Then, Dean Stehlík further elaborated on the Czech Constitutional Court's interaction with the EU law after the Czech Republic’s reintegration into the democratic structure of the European Union. During the speech session, the Justices and the speakers exchanged different practices and viewpoints on transitional justice in Taiwan and the EU, with a focus on the difficulties in identifying the victims and the nuances between different measures of compensation or restitution.