宋承恩：和平崛起的法治對話
宋承恩
英國牛津大學博士候選人
吞吐大量文字而輾轉反側的一夜，我與法進行了如下的夢囈：
法：2013年1月22日，菲律賓外交部向北京政府遞交通知，依聯合國海洋法公約，就兩國在南海的爭端，對中國提起訴訟。
我：我注意到了，此事重要嗎？
杜芸珮：『圈外人』的『進化』論
杜芸珮 (中研院法律所研究助理)
我國在正式外交場合中，時常扮演著圈外人的角色，面臨無法參加許多國際組織會員國大會以及多邊條約締約國大會等重要國際會議的困難，自然無法全盤掌握各項國際條約之訂立過程，例如利益團體遊說之經過與立場，以及國與國間的政治角力過程等。當各國為了某條文的解釋與適用方式進行協商、結盟，乃至於爭辯，我國既未參與討論，僅取得經過數次討論後的結果，過程自是毫無所悉，更增加我國法制與國際接軌的困難度。
蔡沛倫：Mistaken Identity, CIA Extraordinary Rendition, and the European Court of Human Rights: The Case of Khaled El-Masri
Pei-Lun Tsai
Ph.D. student, School of Law,
University of Nottingham
On 13 December 2012, European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR or the Court) delivered its judgment in El-Masri v The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, where the Court found Macedonia responsible for torture, ill-treatment and secret rendition of a German national, and in violation of a number of provisions in the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). The applicant, Mr El-Masri, was subjected to an extrajudicial transfer of from one jurisdiction to another for detention and interrogation outside the normal legal system, otherwise known as “extraordinary rendition”. It was believed that his initial arrest was a result of mistaken identity: his name resembled that of a suspected member of Al Qaeda. Although the ECtHR case was brought against Macedonia, the judgment is in fact the first international judicial decision rendered on extraordinary rendition practised by the Central Information Agency (CIA) of the United States (US). While the case of Mr El Masri has been brought to the attention of various national, regional, and international mechanisms (see external links below) and is now still pending before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, the current contribution would focus on the considerations and analyses of the ECtHR.