EWMI NEWS:
MARCH 2010
EWMI DEVELOPS FIRST LAW JOURNAL FOR CAMBODIA

EWMI’s PRAJ II program recently completed an historical first for Cambodia: the first law journal in Cambodian history. This was a follow on activity to Cambodia’s first academic conference held at the Royal University of Law and Economics (RULE) in March 2009. The conference was organized by a new group of academics and lawyers known as the Cambodian Society of Comparative Law (CSCL). Many of the speeches and papers presented there are now published in this journal. EWMI’s PRAJ II program helped edit and coordinate the articles and then funded the printing of the journal. The journal was presented formally to the Cambodian community on March 6-7 at the CSCL second annual academic conference at Pannasastra University of Cambodia.

EWMI supports this journal because it represents the first opportunity for legal academics and practitioners to engage in research and writing on Cambodian legal topics. EWMI hopes that it will represent the start of a process whereby talented young students, professors and lawyers can learn how to research, write and advocate for positions. This is part of the development of a mature judicial and legal regime that allows for debate, reason and argumentation. Ultimately, it is hoped that it leads to the development of the rule of law.

First issue of the first law journal in Cambodian history