What would a college graduate majoring in law become? Are becoming a practicing lawyer, a judge or public prosecutor, or a legal scholar the only options available? What would you have become, if you had studied law in the 1950s?
Many of our time remember Su Jyun-Hsiung (1935-2011) as a law professor and former associate justice of Judicial Yuan, Taiwan's constitutional court. His career, in fact, is characterized by a wide range of experience, and has more in common with Western jurists than with his fellow Taiwanese colleagues. Born in Tainan, Su went to college in Taipei. Thanks to Yu Shu-Ping (also known as Schobern Jü, 1911-1978), legal scholar who had studied in Austria, a post of research assistant was offered to Su. He thus changed his plan, heading to Germany for graduate study. He has subsequently worked in a think tank of the former West German government, then as a professor, council member, and official in Taiwan. Later on, he even became a member of the National Assembly, which revised the constitution in the early years of Taiwan's democratization, before his appointment to the constitutional court.
This exhibition shows diverse life paths that four young men took after their legal education in Taiwan of the 1950s. With Su's rich archive, the exhibition revisits the events occurring to these jurists and the choices they made in the intersection of international and domestic politics and individual life stories between the 1960s and the 1990s.
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