Chen Lung-chu

Chen Lung-chu (traditional Chinese: 陳隆志; pinyin: Chén Lóngzhì; born 30 December 1935) is a Taiwanese legal scholar. He is a professor emeritus at New York Law School, the founder of the Taiwan New Century Foundation, and chairman of the Taiwan Society of International Law.^[1]

Chen Lung-chu
陳隆志
Chen in 2019
Born	(1935-12-30) December 30, 1935 (age 89) Tainan County, Japanese Taiwan
Education	National Taiwan University (LLB) Northwestern University (LLM) Yale University (LLM, JSD)
Occupations	Legal scholar law professor activist

Early life and education

Chen was born to Su-ton and Lai-chu (Huang) Chen in Madou District in Tainan County, Taiwan, on 30 December 1935.^[2] After graduating as valedictorian from National Tainan First Senior High School, he studied law at National Taiwan University (NTU), where he was a student of legal scholar Peng Ming-min. Chen graduated summa cum laude and first in his class^[3] from NTU with a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) in 1958 and then pursued graduate studies in the United States at Northwestern University and Yale University, first on a Ford Foundation Fellowship from 1960 to 1961, then on a Yale Fellowship from 1961 to 1964.^[4]

After receiving his Master of Laws (LL.M.) from the Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law in 1961, Chen entered Yale Law School, where he earned a second LL.M. degree in 1962 and a Doctor of Juridical Science (J.S.D.) in 1964.^[1]

Career

After obtaining his doctorate, Chen was a research associate at Yale Law School from 1964 to 1977, and was a senior research associate there from 1973 to 1977.^[1]

Chen is an elected life member of the American Law Institute.^[5]

Awards and honors

• Second Class Order of the Brilliant Star (awarded on May 13, 2008, at the Presidential Palace)