英文摘要 |
This article starts off from the Tama Talum case, which concerns a verdict of guilty on Taiwanese Indigenous People owing to the hunting of wildlife with self-made shotguns. This article endeavors to analyze the intertwined issues of culture, power, criminal and constitutional law involved in this case. It first builds up the analytical framework and discursive foundation based on one basic point. That is, what underneath this 'unlawful' hunting and possession of guns is issue regarding whether culture could be subject to legal norm. This article then dissects relevant disputes in this case, including gun control and hunting management against indigenous people. It examines the systematic relations within existing law and arguments in judicial practice. In the end, this article provides some reflections, and is expected to initiate comparative holistic thinking between constitutional interpretation and criminal law system so as to open up a novel field in legal study. |