Jurists in Taiwanese History

Since Yeh Ching-yao obtained his attorney qualification in 1918 during the colonial era, legal profession in Taiwan has had a history spanning more than a century. However, under decades of martial law governance, much of its early history was deliberately suppressed and erased. The achievements of the first generation of Taiwanese attorneys—Yeh Ching-yao, Tsai Po-fen, Cheng Sung-yun, Tsai Shih-ku, Chen Tseng-fu, Lai Yu-jo, Tsai Hsien-yu, as well as Liu Wang-tsai and Tang Te-chang in the later years of World War II—and Taiwan’s first prosecutor, Wang Yu-lin, have yet to receive the recognition they deserved.