Early Life
Born in Hemei, Changhua County, Yao has eleven younger siblings. In 1957, He started working as a clerk in the Bureau of Telecommunications, which is now the Chunghwa Telecom. Yao studied law at the National Taiwan University in Taipei. He passed the bar exam in 1966 and got his master's degree in law two years later.
Yao co-founded the "Legal Advice Center for Citizens"
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in 1972 after attending the University of California at Berkeley as a visiting scholar. In 1975, he served as a defense lawyer of Kuo Yu-hsin, an important figure in the Tangwai movement, along with Lin Yi-hsiung.
Yao is married to Chou Ching-yu, who is a former magistrate of Changhua County.
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