Community Legal Education Center

Working towards a society based on the Rule of Law and Social Harmony. ⚖️🇰🇭 The Community Legal Education Center (CLEC) was created in 1996 as a legal resource center, promoting the rule of law, justice, and democracy in Cambodia. From 1996 to 2001, CLEC operated as an arm of the University of San Francisco School of Law, funded by USAID. Since its establishment, CL

EC has taught over five thousand Cambodians in different subjects of law through its "certificate in law" program. CLEC has also produced a legal text-book series, which represent some of the only Cambodian legal texts on a wide range of subjects. CLEC legal empowerment activities combine legal awareness, trainings, legal aid services and advocacy supports. Its trainings are designed for a wide range of target groups including local communities, NGOs and government officials. CLEC has been involved in advocacy on a number of significant law reform issues including the 2001 Land Law, the sub-decree on indigenous communal land titling, establishment of the Arbitration Council, the election dispute resolution process, the draft Peaceful Assembly Law, and commentary and review of a numerous pieces of legislation. Since 2004, CLEC has also embarked on a major project of high impact public interest legal advocacy, particularly in the areas of land and natural resources.