Basic Information

Email Address

• Email Address

  chen.kuanwei.2jkyoto-u.ac.jp

Professional Memberships

• From Jan. 2025, To Present

  International Society of Public Law, Taiwan Chapter
• From 2024, To Present

  The Law and Society Association
• From 2018, To Present

  IACL-AIDC (Research Group: Membership and Exclusion under Constitutions)
• From 2021, To Present

  International Society of Public Law

Academic Degree

• 30 Jun. 2016

  台湾大学修士（法学）
• 28 Jun. 2024

  ミュンヘン大学博士（法学）

Academic Resume (Undergraduate School/Majors)

• 国立台湾大学, 法学部, 卒業

Research History

• From Feb. 2025, To Present

  Kyoto University, Graduate School of Law, Center for Interdisciplinary Studies of Law and Policy, AI and Law Unit, Program-Specific Assistant Professor
• From Nov. 2024, To Present

  Hitotsubashi University, Graduate School of Social Data Science, Visiting Researcher
• From Sep. 2024, To Dec. 2024

  台湾中央研究院, 法律学研究所, 研究助手
• From Mar. 2023, To Jul. 2023

  The University of Tokyo, Graduate Schools for Law and Politics, JSPS Research Fellow
• From Oct. 2016, To Aug. 2017

  台湾司法院（憲法法庭）, 院長室, 院長秘書官
• From Jun. 2016, To Oct. 2016

  台湾萬國法律事務所, 研修弁護士

ID,URL

• ORCID ID

  0000-0003-1348-5118

• J-Global ID

  202501000164471783

researchmap URL

• https://researchmap.jp/kuanwei_chen

Research

Research Interests

• civic participation
• AI Governance
• Comparative Public Law
• Digital Regulation
• Digital Constitutionalism

Research Areas

• Humanities & social sciences, New fields in law, AI and Law
• Humanities & social sciences, Public law, Constitutional Law, Administrative Law, Information Law

Papers

• EUデジタル立憲主義の発展と課題

  陳冠瑋

  ＥＵ法研究, Jul. 2025, Invited

  
• 初探COVID-19疫苗接種義務及疫苗護照之治理疑慮

  陳冠瑋(Kuan-Wei CHEN)

  科技醫療與社會, 2022, Peer-reviewed, Lead author

  
• Dealing with Disinformation from the Perspective of Militant Democracy: A Case Study of Taiwan’s Struggle to Regulate Disinformation

  Chen, K.-W.

  Economic Analysis of Law in European Legal Scholarship, 2021

  
• 如何以專法推動氫能–以韓國氫經濟促進及氫安全管理法為例

  陳冠瑋

  科技法律透析, 2021, Peer-reviewed, Lead author

  
• 初探再生能源國家補貼之管制：以歐盟為借鏡

  陳冠瑋(Kuan-Wei CHEN)

  臺灣能源期刊, 2020, Peer-reviewed, Lead author

  

Misc.

• 憲法訴訟惡法一旦通過 該如何因應

  呂胤慶; 郭柏鴻; 陳冠瑋; 賴又豪

  上報, Nov. 2024

  
• 歐洲議會選後觀察：極右派何以崛起？對台灣有何影響？

  陳冠瑋

  法律白話文運動國際瞭望, Jun. 2024

  
• 拜登發布行政命令、歐盟法律箭在弦上：歐美的人工智慧監管方向有何不同？

  陳冠瑋

  關鍵評論網, Nov. 2023

  
• 該用AI「預測犯罪」嗎？

  陳冠瑋

  法律白話文運動國際站, Jul. 2023

  
• 生成式 AI 的法律迷霧：ChatGPT 等工具好方便，但相關風險你承受得了嗎？

  陳冠瑋

  法律白話文運動國際站, Feb. 2023

  
• 修憲公投來了！十個常見問答一次看

  陳冠瑋

  法律白話文運動, Nov. 2022

  
• 大法官釋憲與公投效力的基礎介紹

  陳冠瑋

  法律白話文運動, Jan. 2019

  
• 2016憲改還能改什麼？

  陳冠瑋

  台灣人權季刊 2015夏季號：台灣憲改特刊, 2015

  
• Why Taiwan’s Constitutional Court Is in Danger

  Kuan-Wei Chen

  Verfassungsblog: On Matters Constitutional, 18 Dec. 2024

  
• How Environmentally Friendly is Taiwan’s Constitution? An Observation from Ecological Constitutionalism

  Kuan-Wei Chen

  Taiwan Insight, 16 Aug. 2024

  
• May Digital Constitutionalism go beyond the Atlantic? – Not a Critique, But a Reflection from East Asia -

  Kuan-Wei Chen

  The Digital Constitutionalist, 24 Jul. 2024

  
• How can we imagine the generative AI’s regulatory scheme? – Perspectives from Asia

  Kuan-Wei Chen

  The Digital Constitutionalist, 25 Jul. 2023, Peer-reviewed

  
• Taiwan’s Participatory Plans for Platform Governance

  Kuan-Wei Chen

  Verfassungsblog: On Matters Constitutional, 10 May 2023

  
• 新興數位科技與法律之交會：專訪日本資訊法專家板倉陽一郎律師與寺田麻佑教授

  陳冠瑋

  法務通訊, 2023

  
• International Human Rights Law, Constitution and ‘A Nation Founded Upon the Principles of Human Rights’

  Kuan-Wei Chen

  Taiwan Insight, Apr. 2019

  

Presentations

• When developmental states enter the age of AI: AI Governance Pathways in East Asian Democracies

  Kuan-Wei Chen; Yi-Li Lee

  2025 ICON•S Annual Conference, 29 Jul. 2025, ICON-S

  
• Human-Centric AI Governance from Multiple Perspectives: Exploring Japan's Agile Governance and Taiwan's Civic Participation as Key Concepts

  Kuan-Wei Chen

  Summer Symposium: Human-Centric AI: Ethics, Regulation, and Safety, 03 Jul. 2025, Vilnius University Faculty of Law, Invited

  
• Digital Constitutionalism in the Age of AI: Different Approaches in East Asian Democracies?

  Kuan-Wei Chen

  King’s Politics, Cambridge University, 30 Jun. 2025, Invited

  
• AN INNOVATING CONSTITUTIONAL PRACTICE: How Does Facial Recognition Technology Interact with Privacy Protections in East Asian Democracies?

  Kuan-Wei Chen; Shih-An Wang

  Oxford Programme in Asian Laws - 2nd International Forum on Asian Laws: Innovation of Laws in Asia, 20 Jun. 2025

  
• The End of Constitutional Privacy Protections?: Facial Recognition Technology in East Asian Democracies

  Shih-An Wang; Kuan-Wei Chen

  Law and Society 2025 Annual Meeting, 22 May 2025

  
• When Agile Governance Meets Digital Constitutionalism: Mutual Learning, Contextual Differences, and New Possibilities

  陳冠瑋

  第4回 アジャイル・ガバナンスシンポジウム, 05 Apr. 2025

  
• Do We Have Different Balances? The Relationship Between Innovation and Fundamental Rights under AI Law in East Asian Democracies

  Kuan-Wei Chen

  Digital Constitutionalism Academy- Conference 2025, 27 Mar. 2025, Invited

  
• Die Auswirkungen von Cyber-Physischen Systemen auf das Rechtssystem: Ansätze der agilen Governance und ihre Herausforderungen in Japan

  Kuan-Wei Chen

  Internationale Tagung zum Recht der künstlichen Intelligenz: Daten-Governance und Recht der künstlichen Intelligenz, 18 Mar. 2025, Invited

  
• Rechtliche Rahmenbedingungen des eGovernment in Taiwan: Ein Überblick

  Kuan-Wei Chen

  Digitalisierung der Verwaltung in Deutschland und Taiwan (DigitV) Dritter Workshop: Vorgaben des allgemeinen Verwaltungsrechts für die Digitalisierung der Verwaltung jenseits der Verwaltungsverfahrensgesetze, 13 Mar. 2025, Academia Sinica, Invited

  
• 國家與公民社會在轉型正義工程的協作:以德國聯邦處理東德獨裁政權基金會及記憶、責任與未來基金會為例

  陳冠瑋

  記憶與想像：轉型正義、人權與民主韌性, 08 Mar. 2025, 行政院人權及轉型正義處（台湾）, Invited

  
• 轉型正義與法學研究在台灣

  陳冠瑋

  匍匐前行：台灣轉型正義的過去、現在與未來研討會, 25 Feb. 2025

  
• 我們需要「數位憲政主義」嗎:從歐美分歧的取徑談起

  陳冠瑋

  憲法研究會第九回, 19 Dec. 2024, 東吳大學, Invited

  
• EUデジタル憲政主義の発展と課題

  陳冠瑋

  一橋EU法研究会, 14 Dec. 2024

  
• In the Shadow of Digital Empires? A Research Agenda on Comparative Digital Regulation in East Asian Democracies

  Kuan-Wei Chen

  2024 Comparative Administrative Law Workshop, 12 Dec. 2024, Institutum Iurisprudentiae, Academia Sinica, Invited

  
• 數位憲政主義及其基本權發展策略

  陳冠瑋

  東亞憲政主義課程（李怡俐教授）, 09 Dec. 2024, 清華大學, Invited

  
• デジタル帝国の間：東アジアにおける民主主義とテクノロジー規制の特徴と潜在力

  陳冠瑋

  世界人権問題研究センター第３回研究会, 30 Nov. 2024, 世界人権問題研究センター

  
• AI in Judicial Applications: Reflections from Taiwan and Europe

  Kuan-Wei Chen

  26 Nov. 2024, Hitotsubashi University

  
• Technological Governance of Misinformation in Taiwan and Civic Engagement

  Kuan-Wei Chen

  AI, Ethics, and Misinformation in East Asia: Governance, Civic Engagement, and Countering ‘Evil’ in the Digital Age Workshop Series, 21 Nov. 2024, Hitotsubashi University

  
• AI在法院程序應用——從歐洲法的觀點

  陳冠瑋

  「AI Tuesday：法律人與AI之夜」系列線上沙龍, 19 Nov. 2024, 全國律師聯合會人工智慧發展與應對委員會（台湾）, Invited

  
• 科技與法律的交會

  陳冠瑋

  大學入門課程（林道教授）, 24 Oct. 2024, 中原大學, Invited

  
• Strategy for the Development of Fundamental Rights under Digital Constitutionalism: From the EU to Taiwan

  Kuan-Wei Chen

  The 14th Symposium on Constitutional Interpretation: Theory and Practice, 14 Aug. 2024, Institutum Iurisprudentiae, Academia Sinica

  
• Digital Constitutionalism in Taiwan: A Preliminary Assessment

  Kuan-Wei Chen

  Workshop-AI, Platforms, and Information Law in East Asia, 05 Aug. 2024, Kobe University

  
• Clarifying Expectations, Asking the Core Questions: A Case Study of the Proposed AI Judgement Generation System in Taiwan

  Kuan-Wei Chen

  ICON-S: The International Society of Public Law 10th Annual Conference, 10 Jul. 2024, ICON-S

  
• Civil Society and AI-Based Disinformation Detection: The Co-Governance Approach in Taiwan and its Legal Challenges

  Kuan-Wei Chen

  ICON-S: The International Society of Public Law 10th Annual Conference, 09 Jul. 2024, ICON-S

  
• Framing the Legal Challenges of Data Donation: From Definitions to Governance Models

  Kuan-Wei Chen

  Data Donation Symposium, 11 Sep. 2023, Data Donation Lab, University of Zurich

  
• Law and Pandemic Digital Surveillance: Reflections on Taiwan, Workshop on Law and Pandemic Digital Surveillance

  Kuan-Wei Chen

  15 Aug. 2023, RIKEN

  
• Towards Better Platform Governance or Destroying Free Speech: An Analysis of the Failure of Taiwan’s Draft Digital Intermediary Services Act

  Kuan-Wei Chen

  Platform Governance Research Network Conference 2023: Imagining Sustainable, Trustworthy, and Democratic Platform Governance, 03 Apr. 2023, Platform Governance Research Network

  
• Legal Framework and Problems of Digital Surveillance in East Asian Democracies during COVID-19

  Kuan-Wei Chen

  International Meet-up of Data Protection Law Researchers, 27 Jan. 2023, Data Protection Law Scholars Network (DPSN)

  
• Legal Boundaries of Digital Surveillance in the New Normal: Cases of East Asian Democracies

  Kuan-Wei Chen

  Surveillance, Democracy, and the Rule of Law: University of Portsmouth and European University Institute 2022 Conference, 09 Jul. 2022, University of Portsmouth and European University Institute

  
• Reflections on the Regulations of the Digital Surveillance during and after the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Study of Japan and Taiwan

  Kuan-Wei Chen

  ICON-S: The International Society of Public Law 8th Annual Conferenc, 05 Jul. 2022, ICON-S

  
• Who Are We the People ONLINE? – the Contradictions of Digital Participation and National Security in Taiwan

  Kuan-Wei Chen

  ICON-S Mundo: The International Society for Public Law Annual Conference, 08 Jul. 2021, ICON-S

  
• Lessons for “Free Speech and Social Media” in a Post-Covid-19 World

  Kuan-Wei Chen

  Democracy and Globalization- Lessons for a Post-Covid-19 World, 23 Jun. 2021, Universität Luzern

  
• A New Face of Militant Democracy in the Digital Age? Fake News Regulation Issue and the Case of Taiwan

  Kuan-Wei Chen

  Dignity, Democracy, Diversity, XXIX IVR World Congress, 11 Jul. 2019, IVR

  
• Regulation on Hate Speech based on Militant Democracy? A Comparison of Europe and East-Asian Democracies

  Kuan-Wei Chen

  The 2nd International Workshop: Hate Speech in Asia and Europe: A Comparative Approach, 09 Jan. 2019

  

Books and Other Publications

• 隱性歧視：用人權實踐平等，消弭藏在生活、文化之下的性別歧視

  Joint editor

  麥田出版, Jan. 2025

  
• 永遠不再：臺灣威權體制下的壓迫與抵抗

  孫世鐸; 陳冠瑋; 黃齡萱; 高毅; 張維修; 林傳凱; 林運鴻; 林靖豪; 何友倫, Joint work

  國家人權博物館，奇異果文創事業, 2023

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• 電影裡的人權關鍵字：借問阿嬤

  陳冠瑋; 孫世鐸; 路那; 潘孟希, Joint work

  國家人權博物館／富邦文教基金會，奇異果文創事業, 2020

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• Digitalisierung und Demokratie – Repräsentation, digitale Partizipation und ihre rechtliche Architektur

  Kuan-Wei Chen, Single work

  Springer VS, 2024

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• Selected Judgments of the European Court of Human Rights (Volume 6)

  陳冠瑋, Joint translation, CASE OF MAGYAR JETI ZRT v. HUNGARY（網路新聞超連結案）歐洲人權法院第四庭於2018/12/04之裁判、CASE OF NAVALNYY v. RUSSIA（多次逮捕案）歐洲人權法院大法庭於2018/11/15之裁判

  Judicial Yuan, Taiwan, 2022

  
• 憲法上居住權之建構與實現：以司法審查為核心

  陳冠瑋, Single work

  台大法律學院傑出博碩士論文叢書／元照出版, 2017

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Awards

• 31 Aug. 2017

  優秀修士論文賞（国立台湾大学大学院法学研究科）
• 31 May 2016

  栄誉学会会員（台湾斐陶斐栄誉学会）
• 31 Aug. 2017

  優秀修士論文賞（国立台湾大学大学院法学研究科）
• 31 May 2016

  栄誉学会会員（台湾斐陶斐栄誉学会）

Media Coverage

• 台韓戒嚴制度比一比 同樣朝小野大、執政受挫

  天下雜誌, Dec. 2024, Paper

  

Academic, Social Contribution

Academic Contribution

• DEM-DEC

  session chair, etc.

  From 2019, To 2020

  

Social Contribution

• Fundamental Rights Special Exhibition: The Stories Behind the Constitutional Court and Fundamental Rights

  Edit, Official expert, Logistic support

  Judicial Yuan, Taiwan, From 2023, To 2024

  
• Invited representative, Agile Governance Summit: Governance Principles & The Pluriverse

  Other

  Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution Japan, World Economic Forum, From 27 Apr. 2023

  
• Human Rights in Plain Language

  Interviewer, Consultant, Official expert

  Plain Law Media Ltd., funded by the National Human Rights Museum, Taiwan, From 2023

  
• Café Philo @ Munich (Director)

  Logistic support

  From 2019, To 2020

  
• AI and Democratic Values Index (CAIDP 2025)

  Report author

  Center for AI and Digital Policy, From 2024

  
• Taiwan Human Rights Hub

  Chief editor, Planner, Logistic support

  From 2024, To Present