Abstract EN:

The recent economic integration of Cambodia on the regional and global scale leads to a significant rise in the number of conflicts in front of the Cambodian judge, involving some foreign element. Yet, he often feels helpless due to the paucity of the current system of Conflict of Laws. The Cambodian legislation is lacking on three points : - on sources : legal rules are scarce and often inconsistent; as to the jurisprudential rules; they are non existent ; - on the implementation : the Conflicts of law rules are not at all or badly implemented by the judge and suffer from the lack of a methodological pattern, - on the aims to be reached, which are, at best, ill-defined. The gap between the current legislation and the new requirements of the Cambodian society is a proof of the need for Cambodia to elaborate its own system, a full and consistent one, to regulate private international conflicts in order to better support the economic and social development of the country. This study aims at considering the concepts, the principles, the methods and the aims on which to start codifying Cambodian private international law which the country badly and urgently needs.