Shu-chin Grace Kuo

gracekuo@mail.ncku.edu.tw, gracekuo2010@gmail.comhttp://www.law.ncku.edu.tw/team_detail.asp?nid=10

Shu-chin Grace Kuo is professor of law in Department of Law, National Cheng-Kung University (Taiwan, ROC). Her research interests lie in the field of legal knowledge of civil dispute resolution, and include family law, civil procedure law, and alternative dispute resolution. In recent years, Professor Kuo focuses in the methods and theories of anthropology of law and ethnography of law. Professor Kuo’s

research includes mandatory mediation, and more specifically relates to how the state assists or interferes with private parties in reconstructing the order of their personal lives through formal and informal negotiation under judicial supervision. Professor Kuo is the author of two books, Legal Anthropology, Legal Knowledge and Legal Techniques (Fa Lu Ren Rei Xue, Fa Lu Zh Sh, U Fa Lu Chi Shu, in Chinese, 2016), Family and Family Law Reconstruction ( Xen Dai Chia Tin Shen Huo De Zhung Zheng U Zai S, in Chinese, 2016). Her recent publications also include The Paradigm Shift of Civil Dispute Settlements in an Ethnographic Context: Studying Family Disputes (in Chinese), Academia Sinica Law Journal, March 2017; The Counseling Function of Family Court and Family Dispute Resolution (in Chinese), Shih Hsin Law Review, June 2016. 

Professor Kuo holds an SJD and an LLM from Northwestern University School of Law in the US and received her primary legal education in Taiwan, where she earned her LLB from National Taiwan University and passed the Bar Examination. Following the completion of her doctoral dissertation at Northwestern University, she was a visiting scholar of Clarke Program in East Asian Law and Culture at Cornell Law School. Her teaching areas include family law, civil procedure law, anthropology of law, and the cultural study of law. Her scholarly works have mainly been published in Chinese in Taiwan, and some have been published in English in the US and Korea.

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