We are excited with very delightful news from Cambodia that Professor Dr. HAP Phalthy, the Graduate of the Graduate School of Law, Nagoya University has been recently appointed as Vice-Rector or Vice-President of the Royal University of Law and Economics (RULE) through a Sub-decree No. 684 effective from July 2024.

Before his appointment as Vice-Rector, Prof. HAP was the Director of the Graduate School at RULE. He was granted the title as “Professor” by His Majesty the King of the Kingdom of Cambodia according to Royal Decree No. 0723/1570 dated 20 July 2023.

He obtained the Master of Laws and Doctor of Laws from Nagoya University, Japan in 2007 and 2010 respectively. His specialized area is Land Law. Prof. HAP had been working as a group leader collaborating with JICA on Japanese Technical Cooperation for the Legal and Judicial Development Project (phase 4) from August 2012 to March 2017 and he has been the member of working group for Sample Form for phase 5 which started from 2017 to 2022. He also plays a crucial role in Internal Quality Assurance Committee for RULE in order to write the self-assessment report for a pilot assessment conducted by the Accreditation Committee of Cambodia (ACC) in late 2015. He has also served as an assessor for ACC since 2016. More remarkably, Prof. HAP has involved with many international institutions for research and quality assurance, such as Korea Legislation Research Institute (KLRI) and ASEAN University Network (AUN). He as been a Steering Committee member of AUN-University Social Responsibility and Sustainability (AUN-USR&S) which is based in the National University of Malaysia since 2012. Prof. Hap has also served as a county representative of ASEAN Quality Assurance Association from 2023. He has been teaching Civil Law, Property Law, Land Law, Business Law, and Research Methodology. His main ambition is to see high quality education of all students.