Phnom Penh · Legal researcher

How law
actually works
in Cambodia.

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

01

The ground layer

Cambodia, comprehensively. Private law, arbitration, sanctions and regulatory affairs — read from primary sources in Khmer and explained to the tribunals, newsrooms, ministries and funds that need to understand a deliberately opaque system. Not what the law says, but what it does.

02

The theory layer

Small-state legality — how weak states use, bend, evade and are disciplined by law while navigating between great powers. Sanctions as statecraft against the small; arbitration as the small state's court of appeal. Cambodia is the laboratory; this is the discipline.

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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.