Interests

International relations of Asia and the Middle East; alliance politics; international financial regulation and policy; international humanitarian and criminal law; modern Cambodian history.

Current Projects

Economic and military relations of the Middle East and Southeast Asia; Korean security; human rights and the Khmer Rouge tribunal in Cambodia.

Education

D.Phil. Candidate, St. Antony’s College, Oxford; M.Phil. Christ Church, Oxford (2002); J.D. Harvard Law School (1998); A.B. (1995) Harvard College (1995).

Background

Deputy Director, Office of South & Southeast Asia, U.S. Treasury Department; Senior Advisor for International Affairs, U.S. Treasury Department (2004-05); Wai Seng Senior Research Scholar, St. Antony’s College (2002-2004); Visiting Research Fellow, Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies, Singapore (2003-2004); Legal Advisor, Documentation Center of Cambodia (1999-present); Tutor in Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford (2002-04); Fulbright Scholar (2000-2001); Attorney, Davis Polk & Wardwell (1998-2000); Editor-in-Chief, Harvard International Law Journal (1998).

Publications

· “Documenting the Crimes of Democratic Kampuchea,” in Jason Abrams, Beth Van Schaack, and Jaya Ramji, eds., Putting the Khmer Rouge on Trial (Mellen Press, 2005).

· “‘Auto-Genocide’ and the Cambodian Reign of Terror,” in Rupen Boyadjian and Dominick Schaller, eds., Contributions to Genocide Studies (Zurich: CHRONOS Press, 2004).

· “A Half-Way Challenge to Malaysia’s Internal Security Act,” Oxford University Commonwealth Law Journal 3:2 (Winter 2003).

· “The Lawful Scope of Human Rights Criteria in World Bank Credit Decisions: An Analysis of the IBRD and IDA Articles of Agreement,” Cornell International Law Journal 23:2 (Fall 2000).

· “A Prospective Enlargement of the Roles of the Bretton Woods Financial Institutions in International Peace Operations,” Fordham International Law Journal 22:2 (Fall 1998).

· “Hostage to a Junta: EU Policy toward Southeast Asia,” Journal of European Affairs 1:1 (July 2003).

· “The Khmer Rouge Tribunal: Now, Never or Somewhere in Between?,” Searching for the Truth (SFT), Issue 40 (Apr. 2003).

· “Great-Power Posturing and the Khmer Rouge Tribunal,” SFT, Issue 32 (Aug. 2002).

· “Defrocking the Monks: The Crime of Religious Persecution,” SFT, Issue 32 (Aug. 2002).

· “Documents as Evidence Against Surviving KR Leaders,” SFT, Issues 19-24 (May-Dec. 2001).

· “Rules of Evidence in the Khmer Rouge Trials: The Treatment of Hearsay and Confessions,” SFT, Issue 3 (Mar. 2000).

· “Categorizing the Crimes of the CPK: Nullem Crimen Sine Lege and the Legal Definition of Genocide,” SFT, Issue 2 (Feb. 2000).

· “The Doctrine of Command Responsibility and the DK Regime,” SFT, Issue 1 (Jan. 2000).

Forthcoming

Publications

· “Korean Security Dilemmas: ASEAN’s Policies and Perspective,” in Hazel Smith, Adam Ward, and Gary Samore, eds., New Approaches to Korean Security (Tokyo: The United Nations University Press, forthcoming early 2006).

· “Mapping the Killing Fields: GIS Technology in the Historical Reconstruction of the Cambodian Holocaust,” in Rujaya Abhakorn & Brian Zottoli, eds., Charting Time and Space: Digital Histories of Southeast Asia (forthcoming 2006).

· The Khmer Rouge Tribunal, an edited volume (Phnom Penh: Documentation Center of Cambodia, forthcoming February 2006).

Last updated January 17, 2006