Dr Ming-Sung Kuo
About/Bio
Dr Ming-Sung Kuo is a reader in law at University of Warwick. He teaches and writes on constitutional and administrative law and public international law. His article ‘Against Instantaneous Democracy’ was awarded the 2020 I·CON Best Paper Prize by the International Journal of Constitutional Law.
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Having Taiwan in Mind? The Principle of Non-Use of Force and the ‘Peacefully Established Status of Territories’
June 9, 2023
Dr Ming-Sung Kuo
‘The nomos of the earth’ is changing again as US-China relations are spiralling downwards rapidly. The increasingly likely scenario of a hot war between China and the US appears to be on everyone’s mind. Here Taiwan finds itself everywhere in the conversations of various international fora (here, here, and…
Democracy and the (Non)Statehood of Taiwan
November 3, 2022
Dr Ming-Sung Kuo
Introduction Much ink has been spilled on Taiwan’s legal status since the Formosa Question first arose in the 1950s. Yet, after Taiwan gradually emerged as a free democracy through a series of constitutional reforms following the martial-law rule’s end in 1987, the question of Taiwan’s status in international law has been lent a new…
Living in the Shadow of Flawed Peace: How General International Law Is Implicated in the Trade War between Japan and South Korea
August 22, 2019
Dr Ming-Sung Kuo
As the anniversary of V-J Day approaches, the legacy of World War II still casts a long shadow on its previous Pacific theatre. Last month, an unprecedented quadripartite incident involving warplanes from, inter alia, Japan and South Korea played out in the territorial airspace of the contested Dokdo/Takeshima islands, disputed territory that was left unresolved in the…
Popular articles by Dr Ming-Sung Kuo
Democracy and the (Non)Statehood of Taiwan
November 3, 2022
Dr Ming-Sung Kuo
Introduction Much ink has been spilled on Taiwan’s legal status since the Formosa Question first arose in the 1950s. Yet, after Taiwan gradually emerged as a free democracy through a series of constitutional reforms following the martial-law rule’s end in 1987, the question of Taiwan’s status in international law has been lent a new…
Having Taiwan in Mind? The Principle of Non-Use of Force and the ‘Peacefully Established Status of Territories’
June 9, 2023
Dr Ming-Sung Kuo
‘The nomos of the earth’ is changing again as US-China relations are spiralling downwards rapidly. The increasingly likely scenario of a hot war between China and the US appears to be on everyone’s mind. Here Taiwan finds itself everywhere in the conversations of various international fora (here, here, and…
Living in the Shadow of Flawed Peace: How General International Law Is Implicated in the Trade War between Japan and South Korea
August 22, 2019
Dr Ming-Sung Kuo
As the anniversary of V-J Day approaches, the legacy of World War II still casts a long shadow on its previous Pacific theatre. Last month, an unprecedented quadripartite incident involving warplanes from, inter alia, Japan and South Korea played out in the territorial airspace of the contested Dokdo/Takeshima islands, disputed territory that was left unresolved in the…