Yet, I would further argue that, in a university, it is completely unacceptable to have a chair professor of law who is asleep. Based on constitutional theory, one independent state must be independent from another to achieve one of the elements of sovereignty. If Taiwan is a sovereign state, then it is independent from the People’s Republic of China (PRC). This act is a special statute, which is more overruling than a general statute, let alone an administrative regulation. As a chair professor of law, Ma should have read the fundamental theory on hierarchical structure proposed by Austrian jurist Hans Kelsen, but he is apparently too busy with under-the-table negotiations with China.
