Publications - Shih-Chun "Steven" Chien

PUBLICATIONS 

The “Bamboo Ceiling” in Law: Perceptions of Discrimination and Other Obstacles to Advancement in the Legal Profession, THE RUSSELL SAGE FOUNDATION JOURNAL OF THE SOCIAL SCIENCES (lead author with Hon. Goodwin Liu and Ajay K. Mehrotra, forthcoming). 

Book Review: The Myth of Judicial Independence (Oxford University Press), AMERICAN JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE LAW (forthcoming). 

Evidence-Based Criminal Justice 2.0: A Prologue, CASE WESTERN RESERVE LAW REVIEW (forthcoming). 

Cultivating Sense: Cultural Change in the Prosecutor’s Office, 32 MINN. J. INT’L L. 1 (2023). 

Miranda in Taiwan: Why It Failed and Why We Should Care, 17 U. PA. ASIAN L. REV. 1 (2022).

Who Wants to be a Prosecutor? And Why Care? Law Students’ Career Aspirations and Reform Prosecutors’ Goals, 65 HOWARD L.J. 173 (2021) (lead author with Stephen Daniels). 

Sociolegal Research, the Law School Survey of Student Engagement, and Studying Diversity in Judicial Clerkships, 69 J. LEGAL EDUC. 530 (2020) (lead author with Ajay K. Mehrotra and George Wang). 

Crime and Punishment in Gold County: A Historical Case-Study, 24 BERKELEY J. CRIM. L. 81 (2019) (with Lawrence M. Friedman).

State Update: California Cries for Help: Domestic Violence Restraining Orders in Orange County, 32 AM. J. FAM. L. 75 (2018) (with Lawrence M. Friedman).

Work in Progress 

"The Peers of Non-Elected Prosecutors” (with Prof. Ronald Wright, Wake Forest Law) 

“Ohio Prosecutor Elections Project” “From Classrooms to Chambers: The Role of Law Schools in Diversifying the Judicial Clerkship Applicant Pool” 

“Social Network and Prosecutors” 

“Fair and Just Prosecution (FJP) Summer Program Survey Study Preliminary Findings and Analyses” 

“Diversity and Judicial Clerkships” 

“Why the Best Practices Approach Is Not Always the Best: Studying the Conviction Integrity Unit Through an Organizational Perspective” 

“Serving the Public Good: Some New Data on an Old Question”

Selected Publications in Chinese 

“Teaching the 4th Amendment: The Changing Pedagogy in U.S. Law Schools,” in The Handbook of Taiwanese Criminal Procedure, National Chengchi University Criminal Law Center (forthcoming). 

“Making the Prosecution: A Comparative Analysis of Prosecutorial Practices in the United States and Taiwan,” in How Does Law Matter: Handbook of Taiwanese Law and Society Study (2023). 

“Civil Asset Forfeiture, Equitable Sharing, and Policing for Profit in California: A Cautionary Tale for Taiwan,” Taiwan Law Review, No. 265, Taipei: Angle Publishing (2017). 

“The Objective Requisites of Citizen’s Arrest: Comparative Studies on the Provisional Arrest in the German Code of Criminal Procedure (StPO),” Taipei University Law Review (Taiwan Social Science Citation Index, TSSCI), Vol. 98, New Taipei City: National Taipei University (2016). 

“Overview of California’s Three Strikes Law and Policy,” Taiwan Prosecutor Review, Vol. 19, Taipei: Taiwan High Prosecutors Office (2016). 

“The Necessity of Constructing a Non-Conviction-Based Criminal Forfeiture System: A Comparative Analysis of American and German Legislation,” Taiwan Law Review, No. 241, Taipei: Angle Publishing, with Professor Yun-hua Yang (2015). Subsequently included as a book chapter in New Forfeiture Law II: New Era of Economic Criminal Laws, Taipei: Angle Publishing (Yu-hsung Lin eds., 2016). 

“The Application of Hue and Cry in the Arrest of Flagrante Delicto: A Focus on the Felony Committed Thesis in the Regime of Citizen’s Arrest,” Journal of New Perspectives on Law, No. 41, Taipei: Angle Publishing (2013).

Other Publications

AMERICAN JURY SYSTEM, Prosecutors Digest* (ongoing series). *Prosecutors Digest is a professional legal journal published by Taiwan’s Ministry of Justice.

“Blog Post: Why Motivations Matter Revisited: More So Now,” Law School Survey of Student Engagement (2021), with ABF Senior Research Professor Stephen Daniels. 

“Blog Post: Beyond Enrollment: Why Motivations Matter to the Study of Legal Education and the Legal Profession?,” Law School Survey of Student Engagement (2020), with ABF Senior Research Professor Stephen Daniels. 

“Blog Post: Empirical Sociolegel Research and the Use of LSSSE Data,” Law School Survey of Student Engagement (2020), with Ajay K. Mehrotra. Chien, CV 5 

“The Blue Wall of Silence: How Do We Deal with Police Corruption,” Taipei District Prosecutors Office Archive (2018). 

“People’s Participation: How Do Taiwanese Prosecutors Make Justice?” The Storm Media (Date: 1/11/2018). 

“The Changing Role of American Prosecutors – The Development and Challenges of the Crime Strategies Unit,” The Storm Media (Date: 3/1/2017).