New Blog for Legal Education Micro-Charity CLEW

• Author: Steve Matthews
• Date: January 22, 2015

You may remember a guest column posted a few months ago here on Slaw written by John Claydon, titled Canadian lawyers making a difference in Cambodia.

In it, John describes how a five-lawyer Toronto firm, Bennett Gastle, established Cambodian Legal Education for Women (CLEW), a charity that gives full four-year scholarships to young women from rural areas who would otherwise be unable to obtain a university education.

These young women graduate with LLBs from Cambodia’s leading law school, and though most of them will not be able to join the exclusive and expensive Bar, the grads (several dozen to date) are putting their skills and knowledge to work in a multitude of ways that help to bring about change in real ways; including areas such as the status of women, indigenous rights, and land/property rights.

CLEW now has its own blog, entitled “Field Notes”, screen...