If one views law and equity as the flesh and bones of the law, litigation funding would probably be the lifeblood that nourishes them. This stream of lifeblood has been running through the English system and those that are closely mirrored on it for centuries. Such systems have however constantly suffered from a condition known as the “English disease of costs”. The chief symptoms of this disease include costs being “unpredictable, disproportionate and unlimited.”1 These in turn lead to costs which act as a barrier to justice. It is not that English law failed to pay heed to the law of costs. Rather, all the time and effort spent on the law of costs has failed to cure the disease: it has in fact merely served as a constant reminder of the seriousness of the ailment. Public outcry against the obscene legal costs of this system has echoed from the early days of the common law to the present day. There have been no lack of reform attempts. In fact, if one cares to look through the pages of history, reforms and proposals promising to bring down the obscene costs in English law have come and gone. Some achieve minor victories, while the vast majority have, on the whole, been utter failures. Against this historical backdrop, with the coming into force of the relevant provisions of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012, the Jackson reforms are the latest contender in a thousand-year English war against costs. There are repercussions and recurring themes in the history of costs that we never seem to be able to break off from. The reform of the law of costs went around in cycles, and the Jackson reforms were no exception to this historical pattern. There is a need to look into the historical development of the law when engaging in the reform of procedural law. After all, “[w]hat has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun”,2 and this would be particularly true in the context of civil procedural reform. This article is thus an attempt to provide a brief historical account of the law of costs, and to draw parallels between the Jackson reforms and previous laws, in the hope that these would provide a better understanding of our current law. – To introduce students to fundamental principles of the English law of civil procedure and civil evidence, which would serve as a conceptual framework for the further study of common law subjects and comparative study. – To equip students with essential knowledge on civil litigation in England and other jurisdictions similar to it. – To engage students in debates on both perennial and recent topics and challenges faced by the English law of civil procedure & civil evidence. NB It must be noted that due to the categorisations under English law, administrative litigation procedure would fall within civil procedure and thus the syllabus would also cover it. College of Law WING WINKY SO LAW5355 1

Sources of the EU insurance regulation The Single Market in Insurance The home country control and the colleges of supervision System of governance of (re)insurance undertakings Insurance intermediaries Consumer protection and insurance market The aim is to provide knowledge of insurance law in transnational (EU) perspective. The course identifies the sources of European insurance regulation and it will show the steps that led to the creation of the Single Market in insurance. The rules on governance and solvency of (re)insurance undertakings will be analyzed, as well as the system of supervision at EU level. The course will provide an overview of the regulation of insurance intermediaries and the EU rules on consumer protection in the insurance market. College of Law PIERPAOLO MARANO LAW5356 1

Addressing legacies of pervasive human rights and humanitarian law violations is essential to breaking cycles of violence. But trying to render justice for victims of mass atrocity and violations raises large conceptual and practical difficulties, particularly when a states political balance is delicate, society is divisive, prevailing narratives of the past are irreconcilable, resources are limited, and international actors get involved. Transitional justice has emerged as an approach to achieving justice in these complex settings, when states are emerging from conflict and authoritarian rule. This course is designed to provide students with an introductory understanding of transitional justice theory and the challenges faced when applying that theory in real contexts of transition to address legacies of mass human rights and humanitarian law violations. The course is based on the Socratic teaching method, which requires student participation in class discussion. Students are expected to read assignments before coming to class. In addition to lectures and class discussions, a range of experiential and participatory learning methods will be employed, including group projects, presentations, and role plays. All instruction, discussions, assignments, and examinations, including all student input, will be conducted in English. College of Law JAMES KENG-HUI LIN LAW5357 1

The course deals with the process of harmonization of private law and private international law in the European Union. The course will start approaching in depth the existing system of dispute resolution in the EU both State courts and ADR -mainly arbitration and mediation- and its interpretation by the European Union Court of Justice. The course will also deal with the harmonized choice of law rules developed by the EU in several fields -we will mainly focuss on contracts, torts, marital crisis and maintenance- as well as to the attempts to draft a substantive set of rules -the proposed common European sales law-. The course will end up approaching the enforcement stage: the system developed by the EU to ensure that judgments and orders rendered by European Courts can circulate along the Union. The course will provide students with a general approach to the current process of harmonization of Private Law and Private International Law in the European Union. Questions of Choice of Laws, International Jurisdiction and Recognition of Foreign Judgments will be studied and comparted with the existing situation in Taiwan. College of Law CARLOS ESPLUGUES LAW5352 1

This course is a comprehensive examination of the nature, extent and consequences of white-collar crime with emphasis on the law and social control from the criminal justice perspective. At the completion of this course, students will be able to: 1. Communicate about the nature and extent of different types of white-collar crime. 2. Evaluate the consequences of white-collar crime in a contemporary society. 3. Discuss the responses to white-collar crime from the criminal justice perspective. Date Content Remarks 12/19 Unit 1: Discovery and Study of White Collar Crime 12/20 Unit 2: Corporate Crime 12/21 Unit 3: Occupational Crime and Avocational Crime 12/22 Unit 4: Governmental Crime 12/23 Unit 5: State-Corporate Crime and Finance Crime 12/26 Unit 6: Enterprise Crime and Technocrime 12/27 Unit 7: Law and the Social Control of White Collar Crime 12/28 Unit 8: Policing and Regulating White Collar Crime 12/29 Unit 9: Prosecuting and Responding to White Collar Crime Book Report due Communicate about the nature and extent of different types of white-collar crime. Evaluate the consequences of white-collar crime in a contemporary society. Discuss the responses to white-collar crime from the criminal justice perspective. College of Law HSIAO-MING WANG LAW5353 1

Donald Davidson (1917-2003) is arguably the most influential philosopher in the second half of the 20th century, specializing in metaphysics, the philosophy of language, the philosophy of mind, and some other related field. Surprisingly, he did not publish any single monograph, apart from some collections and a variety of essays. Each of his classical essays appears to be individually developed and seems to be fascinating and invaluable on its very own. It is striking that when and only when they are drawn together there emerges a compelling whole picture of man as a rational animal (presumably the only rational animal in this world). According to Davidson, the thoughts of human being should never be reducible to the material. Nonetheless, thoughts are components of the reality. Moreover, he classifies our knowledge into three distinct categories, including knowledge of our own mind, knowledge of the minds of others, and knowledge of the external world. And having knowledge of these categories are so fundamental to the nature of human being as the power of thought and speech itself. Davidson’s philosophical program can be roughly organized around two connected projects. The first is that of understanding the nature of human agency. The second is that of understanding the nature and function of language, and its relation to the world. Accordingly, the first part of this course will focus on Davidson’s investigation of reasons, causes, and intentions, which revolutionized the philosophy of action. This leads to his notable doctrine of anomalous monism, the view that all mental events are physical events, but that the mental cannot be reduced to the physical. The second part of this course focus on his philosophy of language. We shall study several famous essays in which Davidson set out his highly original and influential truth-conditional program of meaning theory and the role the very concept of truth plays in the theory of meaning and the philosophy of language in general. The course intends to offer a survey of the philosophy of Donald Davidson so that students can grasp, on the one hand, the development of the philosophy of language in the 20th century from Frege to Davidson, and on the other hand, the Davidsonian account of action. Davidson’s main theses will be formulated as clearly as possible and his arguments will be explicated. His original essays will be studied and common criticisms will be reexamined. I hope this course would be able to pave a road for the student not only to advanced study of Davidson’s works, but also to the study of philosophy of language, philosophy of action, and metaphysics in general. College of Liberal Arts 每週將會指定一篇戴維森的作品。要求進行閱讀、摘要。 CHIN MU YANG Thursday 789 Phl7674 3

Logic synthesis is an automated process of generating logic circuits satisfying certain Boolean constraints and/or transforming logic circuits with respect to optimization objectives. It is an essential step in the design automation of VLSI systems and is crucial in extending the scalability of formal verification tools. This course introduces classic logic synthesis problems and solutions as well as some recent developments. This course is intended to introduce Boolean algebra, Boolean function representation and manipulation, logic circuit optimization, circuit timing analysis, formal verification, and other topics. The students may learn useful Boolean reasoning techniques for various applications even beyond logic synthesis. College of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science The prerequisite is the undergrad “Logic Design” course. Knowledge about data structures and programming would be helpful. JIE-HONG JIANG Friday 234 EEE5028 3

This course, taught mainly in English, introduces ?　the overview of the judicial system in Japan (legal history, democracy, rule of law, procedural human rights, fairness, procedural principles, judicial power in the state, supreme court, high courts, district courts, family courts, summary courts, ? the civil procedural law (types of civil suits, procedure for civil suits, Court costs, burden, and grace of payment and ? the civil conciliation in Japan ? judicial training system, Judge, notary, barrister, solicitor, court clerk etc. Students will gain an understanding of the judicial system in Japan, especially a japanese way how to resolve the civil litigation matter in morden industrialized society. Students will also gain practical experience through in-class discussing with lecturer about legal topics in Japan. College of Law MASAHISA DEGUCHI LAW5351 1

The course will use a combination of lectures, reading assignments, and guest lectures. Lectures: Lectures will focus primarily on Value Investment Philosophy and valuation methods and techniques. Reading Assignments: Students are expected to be able to discuss the required readings. Guest lectures by some of the Investment Industry’s most famous practitioners. They will provide examples of how the Philosophy of Value Investing has impacted their career. To prepare students to understand, evaluate, and invest using a Global Value Investment Philosophy in all asset classes (i.e. securities, real estate, hard assets, etc). Students will be exposed to value investing valuation methods, strategies and techniques. Students are guaranteed to be better investors over their lifetimes or their money back! College of Management Foundations of finance Basic accounting terminology Basic common sense Extraordinary enthusiasm and effort HSU TONY GMBA7086 1

課程名稱：微流體現象及應用(FUNDAMENTALS AND APPLICATIONS OF MICROFLUIDICS) 開課學期：100-2 開課系所：工學院 化學工程學系 授課教師：趙玲 課號： 課程識別碼： 學 分：3 必/選修：選修 授課對象：大三、大四、研究生 總人數上限：30人 備註：以中文授課為原則，使用英文教科書及隨堂講義，選修課程。 課程概述： THE OBJECTIVE OF THIS COURSE IS TO PROVIDE AN OVERVIEW OF PHENOMENA IN MICROFLUIDICS AND SUMMARIZE THE MAJOR APPLICATIONS OF MICROFLUIDICS IN SEPARATION, REACTION, AND SENSING TECHNIQUES. THE FLUIDS AT MICROSCALE HAVE SOME SPECIAL PHENOMENA, BECAUSE SURFACE TENSION, ENERGY DISSIPATION AND FLUIDIC RESISTENCE START TO DOMINATE THE SYSTEMS. MANY INNOVATIVE TECHNIQUES FOR SEPARATION, REACTION, SENSING HAVE BEEN DEVELOPED BY EXPLOITING THESE PHENOMENA. THIS COURSE ALSO INTENDS TO SHOW STUDENTS HOW TO APPLY MANY TRADITIONAL CHEMICAL ENGINEERING FUNDAMENTALS, SUCH AS TRANSPORT PHENOMENA, THERMODYNAMICS, KINETICS TO MICROSCALE EVENTS. 課程?容： 1. INTRODUCTION TO MICROFLUIDICS (3HRS) 2. GENERAL FABRICATION TECHNIQUES (3HRS) 3. FLUORESCENCE TECHNIQUES TO CHARACTERIZE EVENTS IN MICROFLUIDICS (6HRS) 4. FLUID KINEMATICS AND HYDRAULIC CIRCUIT ANALYSIS IN MICROCHANNELS (3HRS) 5. DISPERSION, PATTERNING, AND MIXING IN MICROFLUIDICS (6HRS) 6. MICROCHIP CHEMICAL SEPARATIONS (6HRS) 7. MICROCHIP REACTORS (3HRS) 8. SURFACE FORCES IN MICROFLUIDICS (3HRS) 9. SPECIES AND CHARGE TRANSPORT IN MICROCHANNEL (3HRS) 10. ELECTROSTATICS, ELECTRODYNAMICS AND ELECTROOSMOSIS (6 HRS) 主要教材： 1. MICRO- AND NANOSCALE FLUID MECHANICS: TRANSPORT IN MICROFLUIDIC DEVICES, BRIAN KIRBY, CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2010 2. FUNDAMENTALS AND APPLICATIONS OF MICROFLUIDICS, NAM-TRUNG NGUYEN, STEVEN T. WERELEY, ARTECH HOUSE INC., 2006 其他參考書目： 1. PHYSICS AND APPLICATIONS OF MICROFLUIDICS IN BIOLOGY, DAVID J. BEEBE, GLENNYS A. MENSING, AND GLENN M. WALKER, ANNU. REV. BIOMED. ENG. 2002 4:261?286 2. OPTICAL FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY: FROM THE SPECTRAL TO THE NANO DIMENSION, EDITED BY ALBERTO DIASPRO, SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN HEIDELBERG, 2011 3. WWW.OLYMPUSMICRO.COM/PRIMER/TECHNIQUES/FLUORESCENCE/FLUORHOME.HTML 4. LOW REYNOLDS NUMBER HYDRODYNAMICS, J. HAPPEL AND H. BRENNER, MARTINUS NIJHOFF PUBLISHERS, 1983 評量方式：HOMEWORK, MIDTERM, FINAL ORAL PRESENTATION, AND FINAL WRITTEN REPORT College of Engineering NAE LIH WU Friday 89X ChemE7001 1

課程大綱： THIS CLASS IS AN INTRODUCTORY CLASS FOR ENGINEERING AND SCIENCE STUDENTS WHO HAVE NEEDS AND ARE INTERESTED IN DOING PRESENTATIONS IN ENGLISH. THIS COURSE FOCUSES ON HOW TO DELIVER A DYNAMIC TECHNICAL PRESENTATION EVEN IF ENGLISH IS NOT THE FIRST LANGUAGE. CLASSES ARE ORGANIZED IN A WAY THAT STUDENTS ARE REQUIRED TO PREPARE AND GIVE SHORT PRESENTATIONS OF DIFFERENT TYPES FOLLOWED BY DISCUSSIONS AND LECTURES ON THE SPECIFIC TOPICS. THE CONTENT OF EACH CLASS WILL VARY DEPENDING ON THE NEEDS OF THE STUDENTS. 1. INTRODUCTION ORAL PRESENTATION IN THE REALM OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 2. PREPARATION A. TARGET YOUR TALK (AUDIENCE, PURPOSE, BEGINNINGS, AND ENDINGS) B. GOOD PRESENTATION SLIDES C. VISUAL AIDS D. PRACTICE, PRACTICE, PRACTICE 3. DELIVERY A. TAKE CONTROL OF THE SITUATION B. VOICE AND LANGUAGE (IS ACCENT A PROBLEM?) C. BODY LANGUAGE AND GESTURES D. HANDLING QUESTION-AND-ANSWER 4. LEGAL AND ETHICAL ISSUES WHEN CREATING PRESENTATIONS College of Engineering ANGELA YU-CHEN LIN Tuesday 67 EnvE8003 2

The course aims to survey the British novel since, and in the wake of, Virginia Woolf – paying specific heed to meaningful engagements with her example or interesting resistances, repressions, or downright avoidals. The focus is limited to novels written by British* women (avoiding for the most part commonwealth and colonial/postcolonial writers merely for reasons of economy [*although as usual British incorrectly includes Irish]). Without committing to any particular feminist or theoretical approach (we will survey several), I want us to read the novels, with a background sense of twentieth-century British cultural history, to see how different, talented writers respond to the formal and thematic challenges offered by Woolf, whom I see as a sort of hinge between the great nineteenth-century novelistic tradition and a very changed literary and political world of the twentieth. Major issues include tradition, women’s writing, Modernism and form, sexuality, gender, subversion and transgression. There is quite a bit of reading: we will spend two weeks per novel and read several different critical and theoretical approaches regarding each writer. Requirements, besides reading and class participation, will include a presentation and a long final research paper. Students are encouraged to draw the “alternates” into the discussion in their presentations or papers, as well as to explore other works by the main writers, many of whom (have) had long and fruitful careers. The goal is to survey some good fiction not usually covered in classes for time constraints and pushing towards genuinely contemporary British writing. The course is not conceived as a footnote to Woolf by any means, nor a mere celebration of her work. Rather it takes her as a sort of starting point for an inquiry into British women’s writing in the 20th century. College of Liberal Arts Each student will be required to present on one of the writers (primary or secondary material) and there will be one final semester paper. Naturally students are also required to do all the reading come to class, and to participate in discussions. DUNCAN CHESNEY Friday 234 FL7319 3