Writing
Commentary
& analysis.
Sourced, sober writing on Cambodian law, arbitration and small-state legality. Written once, meant to last. New pieces land here.
- An opening note Why, after fifteen years of working quietly on Cambodian law, I am starting to write in public — and what to expect from this space.
- Navigating the Terrain of Perpetual Leases in Cambodia Perpetual 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.
- NCAC’s Emergency Arbitrator Issues the First-Ever Interim Award Cambodia’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.
- The Immortal Clauses: Safeguards for a Liberal Democratic Order in Cambodia? How far may Cambodia’s 1993 Constitution be amended? A reading of the amendment procedure, the eternity ("immortal") clauses, and the neutrality provisions against the 1991 Paris Peace Agreements.
- Can an English Law-Style ‘Floating Charge’ Be Granted as Security Over Assets in Cambodia? The floating charge is a creature of common-law equity. How Cambodia’s civil-law regime — the Civil Code and the Law on Secured Transactions — handles security over fluctuating assets.
- Choice of Law and Mandatory Provisions in Cambodia Can contractual relationships in Cambodia be governed by foreign law, and will Cambodian courts enforce such agreements? On party autonomy, mandatory provisions, and the case for arbitration.
- Japanese Law and Cambodian Justice: Beyond Legal Transplants in Contemporary Legal Reform How Japan “exported the legal system it once imported” — the JICA-assisted drafting of Cambodia’s Civil Code and Code of Civil Procedure, and what legal transplantation reveals about law and development.
Also published
Longer-form and print work not reproduced here, with a link to the original.
- 2017 Cambodia–India Relations Chapter 15 in Cambodia’s Foreign Relations in Regional and Global Contexts (First Edition), ed. Deth Sok Udom, Sun Suon & Serkan Bulut. Phnom Penh: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, 2017.