Pr. Erik Van den Haute Pays a Courtesy Visit to H.E. Dr. Sok Siphana, Senior Minister, at the Peace Palace, With RULE Dual Degree Department in Law

On January 27th 2025, in the morning, a delegation from RULE Dual Degree Department in Law, led by Pr. Erik Van den Haute (ULB), paid a courtesy visit to H.E. Dr. Sok Siphana, Senior Minister of the Royal Government of Cambodia in charge of Multilateral Trade and Economic Affairs, at the Peace Palace. The purpose of the visit was to exchange information regarding the Dual Master’s Degree of International Business Law, co-organized between RULE and the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), under the patronage of H.E. Dr. Sok Siphana.

Discussions took place on the organization of the incoming Sommet de la Francophonie in 2026 in Phnom Penh, the reform of justice in Cambodia, the project of a Code of Commerce and the future of H.E. collaboration with the dual master’s program of international business law.

During the courtesy visit, Pr. Erik Van den Haute seized the opportunity to share his newly published book, in two tomes, dedicated to Special Contract Law, with H.E. Mr. Laurent Mesmann, head of project and special advisor to the Rector for international cooperation, gifted H.E. with a RULE commemorative plaque. Mr. Paul Mornet, director of the dual master’s degrees in law at RULE, shared a recent publication of interest by an Australian scholar on the history of the administration of justice in Cambodia.

RULE Dual Degree Department in Law would like to express its utmost gratitude to H.E. for the invitation and his long-term patronage of the dual master’s degree of international business law RULE-ULB.