Chen Lung-chu
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Northwestern University (LLM)
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- Legal scholar
- law professor
- activist
Chen Lung-chu | |
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| 陳隆志 | |
_(cropped).jpg) Chen in 2019 | |
| Born | 30 December 1935 |
| Education | National Taiwan University (LLB) Northwestern University (LLM) Yale University (LLM, JSD) |
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Chen Lung-chu (Chinese: 陳隆志; pinyin: Chén Lóngzhì; born 30 December 1935) is a Taiwanese legal scholar. He is a professor emeritus at New York Law School, the founder of the Taiwan New Century Foundation, and chairman of the Taiwan Society of International Law.[1]
Chen was born on December 30, 1935,[1] in Madou District, Tainan County.[2] His parents were originally from Jiali, Tainan. His father, Chen Shih-tung (陳士東), was an electrician for the Taiwan Power Company.[3]
After graduating as valedictorian from National Tainan First Senior High School, Chen studied law at National Taiwan University (NTU), where he became a student of legal scholar Peng Ming-min.[4] As an undergraduate, he attained the highest score in four national civil service examinations and qualified as a judge and diplomat while still pursuing his law degree.[5][6] He graduated first in his class from NTU with a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) with highest honors in 1958,[7] then completed military service in the Republic of China Army as a reserve officer.[3]
Chen won a Fulbright Fellowship and a Ford Foundation Fellowship to study in the U.S. from 1960 to 1961,[8] then received a Yale Fellowship from 1961 to 1964.[9] He earned a Master of Laws (LL.M.) from the Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law in 1961. He then earned a second LL.M. degree in 1962 and his Doctor of Juridical Science (J.S.D.) in 1964 from Yale Law School.[1] As a doctoral student at Yale, he was mentored by political scientist Harold Lasswell.[10]
Career
After obtaining his doctorate, Chen worked as a research associate at Yale Law School from 1964 to 1977 and as a senior research associate there from 1973 to 1977. He was the editor-in-chief of Human Rights, a law journal of the American Bar Association, from 1978 to 1981 and was a senior lecturer at the International Institute of Human Rights in 1979.[1] He befriended Saudi diplomat Jamil Baroody in 1969.[3]
From 2000 to 2001, Chen was a national policy advisor to President Chen Shui-bian. He was also an advisor to the Office of the President from 2001 to 2006.[1]
Chen is an elected life member of the American Law Institute.[11]
