Cambodia

2012 BABSEA CLE Magazine

(please click on the coverpage to download) 2012: A YEAR OF FIRSTS As 2012 has now come to a close we want to thank all of you for being a unique part of such an incredible year of “firsts” for both BABSEA CLE and our partners. Reflecting back on all that was achieved in such an impactful way, it is hard to really believe what was accomplished in just 12 months. It seems as if it should have taken more than double or even triple this amount of time, but when looking back we see that it really was only 12 months-and they were amazing....

Growing Pro Bono in Southeast Asia

BABSEA CLE Organize First-Ever Pro Bono Conference in the Region By Laura Milne, Access to Justice and Pro Bono Programme Manager, Hanoi If a tree falls in the forest and no one hears it, does it make a sound? That was the question Malathi Das, President of LAWASIA, the Law Association for Asia and the Pacific, posed to the delegates of the 1st Southeast Asia Pro Bono Conference during her keynote address. Some 150 delegates to the conference — comprising lawyers, civil society organisation representatives, academics, students, bar association...

How I Spent My Summer Holidays

By Ed O’Brien, Executive Director Emeritus, Street Law Inc. Thirteen Years ago a young lawyer named Bruce Lasky called from Florida and said, “I am going to Cambodia and I want to learn about your Street Law program.” Fittingly, we agreed to meet for dinner at a Vietnamese restaurant in Washington, D.C. We had a delightful meal, during which he pumped me with questions, took some Street Law materials and went off to Southeast Asia. Street Law Exported To Southeast Asia A few years later I heard that not only was Street Law active in Cambodia...