Author: Dolores A. Donovan, USF

On 22 December 2011 the new Cambodian Civil Code went into effect. Its promulgation marked a turning point in the establishment of the rule of law in Cambodia.

Until its enactment, the country’s civil-law system had been dominated by public-law concepts that established the powers and structures of the state and delineated the duties, and only occasionally the rights, of citizens — a legacy of royal and Asian tradition. Read more…