Sally Frances Low
Legal historian and author of Colonial Lawmaking: Cambodia Under the French, with a doctorate in legal history and extensive research and archival work on Cambodian law and colonial administration.
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Sally Frances Low, "Colonial Law Making: Cambodia Under the French" (NUS Press, 2023)
Sally Frances Low, legal historian who researched Cambodian law and colonial archives. She traces French reform of Cambodian legal systems and the clash between indigenous legal cosmologies and French law. She explores court divisions, the 1911 codifications, and how reforms paradoxically reinforced royal authority within new state institutions.
