About the Author

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Kuo-hsing Hsieh is Assistant Professor of Law at the National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan, where his teaching and research focus on criminal law and procedure, and human rights law. He read law at the University of Edinburgh where he received his Ph.D. degree, having been awarded a College of Humanities and Social Science Scholarship, School of Law Scholarship, W.A. Wilson Education Fund and North American Taiwan Studies Association Scholarship. His principal research interest is the broad field of criminal justice, where his work ranges from substantive criminal law to criminal procedure to the administration of criminal justice, with a special focus on issues related to comparative law.