Phnom Penh · Legal researcher
I read Cambodian law in Khmer and write about it in English — and about what small states like it reveal about power and law everywhere.
One practice, two layers
Cambodia, comprehensively. Private law, arbitration, trade and regulatory affairs — read from primary sources in Khmer and explained to the tribunals, newsrooms, ministries and funds that need to understand a system that is hard to read from the outside. Not what the law says, but what it does.
Small-state legality — how weak states use, bend, evade and are disciplined by law while navigating between great powers. Economic pressure as statecraft against the small; arbitration as the small state's court of appeal. Cambodia is the laboratory; this is the discipline.
Why, after fifteen years of working quietly on Cambodian law, I am starting to write in public — and what to expect from this space.
ReadPerpetual leases create real rights akin to title, yet are routinely misread as ordinary contracts. A call for clarity on the supremacy of the Civil Code’s mandatory provisions.
ReadCambodia’s National Commercial Arbitration Centre administers its first emergency arbitration under the 2021 NCAC Rules — and what the enforceability of interim awards means for investors.
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Reading Cambodian law by its own light.
A fortnightly reading of Cambodian law, regulation and legal-political risk — sober, sourced, and built for people who make decisions on this jurisdiction. Early issues go out free while it finds its feet.