Li-Yen Peng

Li-Yen Peng is a DPhil in Law candidate at St Antony's College, Oxford. A Taiwanese lawyer with practical experience in human rights advocacy, he holds LL.B and LL.M degrees from National Taiwan University (Taipei, Taiwan) and an LL.M in Human Rights (Dist.) from the University of Edinburgh (Edinburgh, UK). His research interests revolve around international legal theory, international law-making, and the interplay between general international law and human rights law.

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Continuing to ‘Tinker with the Machinery of Death’? Taiwan Constitutional Court’s Death Penalty Judgment

Continuing to ‘Tinker with the Machinery of Death’? Taiwan Constitutional Court’s Death Penalty Judgment

On 20 September 2024, the Taiwan Constitutional Court delivered its Judgment 113 Hsien-Pan-8 (English translation not currently available), upholding the death penalty, but with significant caveats. The case concerned 33 death row ...