Kong Sam Onn

President

About

Education: Ph. D. Candidate (Public International Law), Nagoya University, Japan; LL.M., Hong Kong University, Hong Kong, S.A.R.; LL.B., The Royal University of Law and Economics, Cambodia, Diploma of the Cambodian Defenders Training, Cambodia.

Experiences: Mr. KONG is an Attorney-at-Law, member of the Bar Association of the Bar Association of the Kingdom of Cambodia (BAKC) and a Professor of Law of the Paññāsāstra University of Cambodia (PUC). He is a senior lawyer of the Cambodia Law Services – a private law firm practices on various area of law both in court proceedings and legal consultation. He used to offer legal consultation to JICA, ECCC, UNFPA and business enterprises. He was a former senior manager of the Cambodian Defenders Project (CDP) and other human rights organizations. He has worked in legal and human rights fields since 1992. He has handled both civil and criminal cases. He has represented various high profile cases involved with journalists, politicians, government officials, military officials and lay people whose basic human rights have been abused.

Fields of Practice: Criminal Law, Human Rights Law, International Criminal Law, Court Proceedings (Civil and Criminal proceedings), Labor law, Tort Law, Intellectual Property Law, Commercial Law, Land Law, Contract Law, Family Law and Electoral Law.

Languages: Khmer, English and Thai.