ABSTRACT
Land policy—specifically, providing security of ownership—has been a key to post-conflict peacebuilding in Cambodia since 1979, which marked the end of the Pol Pot regime. However, the attempt to reform the legal system has been so rapid that there has been little chance to incorporate the traditional legal concepts rooted in local society with more modern concepts of land law. As a result, land policy has become a quilt of overlapping systems, some reaching back centuries, some recent: customary law, the French Civil Code, socialism, private ownership under modern law, and land registration systems. 1
