Dr. Phallack Kong is a law graduate from Nagoya University, Graduate School of Law, Japan, a member of the Bar Association of the Kingdom of Cambodia and Arbitration Council. He also serving as Dean and Professor of Laws at the Faculty of Law and Public Affairs of Paññãsãstra University of Cambodia (PUC); an adjunct Professor at Royal School of Judicial Professions (Cambodian Commercial Judge Training); and a former adjunct professor at Royal University of Law and Economics. He established KhmerLex Legal Solutions, Cambodia's first labor and employment law firm, a group of qualified and experienced lawyers, advisors, researchers and professors, most with bilingual capabilities and some educated or trained in foreign countries. KhmerLex's labor and employment practice is complemented and supported by related practice groups in the areas of Corporate law, Intellectual Property Laws, ADR Services, Litigations, Immigration, Environmental Law, Training, Researches, Project Management, Monitoring and Evaluation, Document Certification, and Translation services.
Professor Arifin Syamsul is the newly appointed Vice Rector of the Universitas Muhammadiyah, Malang (UMM). He has been a lecturer and professor on the sociology of religion at UMM and has as conducted research on the topic of religious fundamentalism, multiculturalism, and freedom of religion and belief. In 2008 he was appointed Deputy Director of the Graduate Program as well as Director of the Center for the Study of Religion and Multiculturalism (PUSAM), both at UMM. Among the initiatives at PUSAM is a course on Sharia Law and Human Rights that has been taught at the master’s level beginning in March 2012. A variety of groups have collaborated on this new course, including the Norway, the Oslo Coalition, and the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights (NCHR). The University of Oslo and the International Center for Law and Religion Studies (ICLRS), which have co-sponsored the course, and the International Institute of Advanced Islamic Studies (IAIS), based in Kuala Lumpur, which has provided scholarly support.
Dr. Jaclyn L. Neo is an Assistant Professor of Law at the National University of Singapore (NUS). She specializes in constitutional law, focusing on constitutional law and religion as well as comparative constitutional law in Southeast Asia. Jaclyn graduated with honours from the NUS Faculty of Law and was a recipient of two graduate scholarships from NUS under which she completed her Masters of Law (LL.M.) and Doctor of the Science of Law (J.S.D.) at Yale Law School. She has published extensively in constitutional law, including in the International Journal of Constitutional Law (I-CON), Oxford Journal of Law and Religion, Human Rights Quarterly, and the Singapore Journal of Legal Studies. Her article on domestic incorporation of international human rights law in a dualist state won the Asian Yearbook of International Law’s DILA International Law Prize. Jaclyn is an Executive Committee member of the NUS Centre for Asian Legal Studies and was also recently appointed to the editorial board of the Asian Journal of Comparative Law and the Asian Yearbook of International Law. In 2015, Jaclyn was appointed as a consultant to WongPartnership, a leading law firm in Singapore. She is currently a member of the Singapore Law Society's Public and International Law Committee.