Professor Wen-Chen Chang focuses her teaching and research on comparative constitutions, international human rights, international environmental law, administrative laws, and law and society. Since February 2019, she is jointly appointed as Dean and Professor at National Chiao Tung University School of Law. Professor Chang received the Outstanding Research Award by Taiwan's Ministry of Science and Technology in 2015, the Junior Research Investigators Award by Academic Sinica in 2012, the Wu Ta-Tou Research Award by National Science Council in 2010, and the Excellence in Teaching Award by National Taiwan University in 2007. Beginning in 2013, Professor Chang serves as a member of the Editorial Board to the International Journal of Constitutional Law (SSCI) and was the member to the Scientific Advisory Board in 2012. She also served as the Editor-in-Chief and the member of the editorial committee to the National Taiwan University Law Review (TSSCI) between August 2008 and July 2012.

張文貞教授的主要研究及教學領域是憲法、國際人權法、行政法、環境法、法律與社會分析，她於2019年2月起，借調至國立交通大學科技法律學院擔任教授並兼院長。張教授於2015年榮獲科技部傑出研究獎，2012年獲中央研究院年輕學者研究著作獎，2010年獲頒行政院國家科學委員會吳大猷先生紀念獎，2007年獲得國立臺灣大學優良教師。張教授在2008年8月到2012年7月間，擔任本院英文期刊National Taiwan University Law Review (TSSCI)的主編，其後一直擔任該刊的編輯委員。2012年，張教授獲邀擔任International Journal of Constitutional Law (SSCI)的學術諮詢委員，2013年起擔任該期刊的編輯委員迄今。張教授有許多中英文著作的出版，近期的英文專書著作有 Asian Courts in Context, with Jiunn-rong Yeh (Cambridge University Press, 2015), 及 Constitutionalism in Asia: Cases and Materials, with Li-ann Thio, Kevin YL Tan & Jiunn-rong Yeh (Hart Publishing, 2014).