Hsiao-Tan Wang
Name Hsiao-Tan Wang
Job Title Professor and Vice Dean
Diplomas Ph.D., University of Warwick, UK | LL.M., Law in Development, University of Warwick, UK | LL.M., National Taiwan University
Email hsiaotan@nccu.edu.tw
Office Tel No. 02-2939-3091轉51412
Research Expertise Hsiao-Tan Wang's research covers the fields of anthropology of law, human rights and gender law. She has done various empirical researches on the legal courts and the dispute resolution in Taiwan, on national and international anti-human trafficking regulations, and on gender violence and human rights.
個人簡述

Hsiao-Tan Wang is Professor of sociology of law, College of Law of Chengchi University, Taiwan. Her research covers the fields of anthropology of law, human rights and gender law. She has done various empirical researches on the legal courts and the dispute resolution in Taiwan, on national and international anti-human trafficking regulations, and on gender violence and human rights. In 2014, 2015 and 2017, she won the Chengchi University Research Award for her theoretical and practical contributions to the concepts of legal consciousness and legal transplants.

Hsiao-Tan Wang publishes her article “Justice, Emotion, and Belonging: Legal Consciousness in a Taiwanese Family Conflict” in 2019 in the Law and Society Review. This Case Study explores how legal consciousness is emotionally driven, intersubjective, and dependent on relational factors that are deeply connected to an individual’s perception of the self–other relationship and affinity therein. It concludes that as the Lee family members negotiated emotionally on issues involving elder care and inheritance, their adoption of law was at times absent, at others influential, but always shaped by certain Chinese concepts such as zı`jǐre´n (自己人), which constitute the emotional complex of belonging in Taiwan.

This cultural patterning identifies a person as included, accepted, and respected by the group and when in conflict, is the driving force behind a disputants’ pursuit of an identity that places them on moral high ground as a form of justice. Rather than depending on rational decision making or legal norms, their legal consciousness was determined by the sense of self, rectitude, emotion, and subjectivity.

 
Personal Website http://www.law.nccu.edu.tw/zh_tw/hsiaotan