Professor Herbert Han-Pao Ma is a towering fi gure in legal philosophy and legal education , who is as admired and revered in Europe and America as he is in Taiwan. He taught at National Taiwan University (NTU) College of Law as a full-time and part-time professor for more than 50 years, illuminating constitutional law, legal philosophy, private international law , and law and social change with his brilliance. Having grown up in a family of intellectuals in the 1940s in Shanghai , which was heavily Westernized owing to the presence of the foreign concessions, Professor Ma was steeped in classical Chinese education while simultaneously exposed to Western thoughts. It was at that time that he began an enduring friendship with Roscoe Pound, the internationally known American legal philosopher and educator, who no doubt had a great infl uence on the professor as a young man and law student. The profound understanding of both Chinese and Western legal philosophies made Professor Ma highly sought after not only in Taiwan but also in East Asia and other regions. Because of his rare ability to elucidate traditional Chinese legal philosophy in English and compare it with Western legal philosophies, he was invited to teach at fabled universities throughout the world: Harvard University, Washington University in St. Louis, Columbia University , University of British Columbia, College de France, University of Hong Kong, University of Vienna, University of Washington in Seattle, and Peking University .