Publications - Shih-Chun "Steven" Chien
Publications
The Silent Influence of American Law: Prosecutors and the Transformation of Criminal Trials in Taiwan, TEXAS INTERNATIONAL LAW JOURNAL (forthcoming).
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).
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).
Selected Publications in Chinese
Devil’s Advocate? The Duty to Refuse and Terminate Representation, 37 ANGLE LAWYER EMPOWERMENT 103 (2025).
LEGAL ETHICS: 25 QUESTIONS—THE DILEMMAS OF LEGAL PROFESSIONALS (Pi-Yu Tsai ed., Angle Publishing 2025).
Ethics in Closing Argument, in NEW TRENDS IN TAIWAN’S CRIMINAL LAW IN THE NEW CENTURY: FESTSCHRIFT IN HONOR OF PROFESSOR LAI-CHIEH HO (New Sharing Publishing 2025).
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, 265 TAIWAN LAW REVIEW (2017).
The Objective Requisites of Citizen’s Arrest: Comparative Studies on the Provisional Arrest in the German Code of Criminal Procedure (StPO), 98 TAIPEI UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW 137 (2016) (Taiwan Social Science Citation Index, TSSCI).
Overview of California’s Three Strikes Law and Policy, 19 TAIWAN PROSECUTOR REVIEW 260 (2016).
The Necessity of Constructing a Non-Conviction-Based Criminal Forfeiture System: A Comparative Analysis of American and German Legislation,” 241 TAIWAN LAW REVIEW 88 (2015) (with Yun-hua Yang). Subsequently included as a book chapter in NEW FORFEITURE LAW II: NEW ERA OF ECONOMIC CRIMINAL LAWS (Yu-hsung Lin eds., Angle Publishing 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,” 41 JOURNAL OF NEW PERSPECTIVES ON LAW 65 (2013).
Other Publications
“Blog Post: Once Again—Why Motivations Matter,” Law School Survey of Student Engagement (2025), with ABF Senior Research Professor Stephen Daniels.
AMERICAN JURY SYSTEM, Prosecutors Digest*
*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.
“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).