Despite having two law degrees, Sokunthea Peng was pessimistic about the legal profession in Cambodia. To her, practicing law in her homeland simply meant contributing to a corrupt legal system, where judges and juries are bribed or otherwise under the influence of government officials.
“The old idea was, ‘Okay, being an attorney in the imperfect judicial system is really nothing,' ” says Peng, who has a bachelor's degree in law from the Royal University of Law and Economics in Cambodia, and a master's degree in law from Nagoya University in Japan.
