NTU Law Journal celebrates its 40th anniversary of publication in October 2011. In the last 40 years, the journal has provided a forum for domestic and foreign scholars, judges, lawyers, and law students to publish professional papers. In terms of civil law, the papers published in the NTU Law Journal include the history of civil law, the legal history, comparative law, case studies of foreign judgments, case studies of domestic decisions, legislative proposals, law and economics, and others.Focusing on the issues related to tort, damages compensation, standard form contracts, and the sales warranties, this article elaborates the function that NTU Law Journal has played in the development of the legal theory, practice and codification of civil law in Taiwan.