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Yesterday Sally Frances Low, "Colonial Law Making: Cambodia Under the French" (NUS Press, 2023)
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Feb 22, 2026
46 minutes
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In 1863 the French established a protectorate over the kingdom of Cambodia. The protectorate, along with Vietnam and Laos, later became part of the colonial state of French Indochina. Part of the French ‘civilizing mission’ in Cambodia involved reforming Cambodian law and legal processes. Sally Low’s pioneering study, Colonial Law Making: Cambodia under the French (NUS Press, 2023), tells the story of the encounter between what she calls two different legal and social ‘cosmologies’: Cambodia’s indigenous legal tradition and modern French legal thinking. While the French claimed they were modernizing Cambodian law, in fact they imposed many elements of Fre...

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Sally Frances Low, "Colonial Law Making: Cambodia Under the French" (NUS Press, 2023)

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