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...Ma is part of a distinguished line of Law School graduates who have left a prominent mark on the development of legal systems in Taiwan...
Along with Ma, former Vice President Annette Hsiu-lien Lu, Grand Justice Lai In-jaw, and the civic leader Eric Tung-sheng Wu are all Law School graduates...
...Ma was born in Hong Kong to a family with political connections to the island’s then-ruling party the Kuomingtang. He moved to Taiwan when he was a year...
...thought it was very good, very solid and very sensible both legally and politically,” Law School Professor Emeritus Detlev F. Vagts ’49, one of Ma’s former supervisors, said of his dissertation. Recalling that Ma was “always friendly and respectful,” Vagts recounted a story in which a journalist in Taiwan had obtained Ma’s paper and asked Vagts if he could justify his praise of the paper in light of “all the typos.” He responded...
After stints as an associate on Wall Street and a professor in Taiwan, Ma worked first as an English translator to then-president Chiang Ching-kuo. Later, at age 38, he became the youngest member of the cabinet when he was appointed as the chair of the Research, Development, and Evaluation Commission. He then served as the Justice Minister from 1993 to 1996, as the Mayor of Taipei from 1998 to 2006, and Chairman of Kuomintang from 2005 to 2007, before being elected Taiwan’s president...