This speech was given at the Department of Politics of National Taiwan University on 23 October 2025. It aimed to discuss the pros and the cons of judicial activism and minimalism from the perspective of constitutional jurisprudence and judicial behaviourism.
Judicial activism can be understood as a derivative of written (or to use the British legal term, codified) and rigid constitutionalism. It is generally held in high esteem in many countries, and most of its advocates regard its drawbacks as little more than technical problems.
Dr Huang set out to prove that they are systematic flaws. Judicial minimalism or inactivism is nearly perfect in terms of theory, but the precondition for applying it is unbelievably difficult to attain, so it is nothing short of suicidal for an immature democracy to choose it.
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- Dr David KC Huang (Author), 2025, Judicial Activism and Minimalism, Munich, GRIN Verlag, https://www.grin.com/document/1685471
