Dr. Phalthy Hap has become the Director of the Graduate Program of the Royal University of Law and Economics (RULE), Phnom Penh since late May 2017. He obtained the Master of Laws and Doctor of Laws from Nagoya University, Japan. His specialized area is Land Law. Dr. Hap had been the working group leader collaborating with JICA on Japanese Technical Cooperation for the Legal and Judicial Development Project (phase 4) since August 2012 to March 2017 and he has been the member of working group for Sample Form for phase 5 which started from 2017 to 2022. He also plays a crucial role in Internal Quality Assurance Committee for RULE in order to write the self-assessment report for a pilot assessment conducted by the Accreditation Committee of Cambodia (ACC) in late 2015. He has also served as an assessor for ACC since 2016. More remarkably, Dr. Hap has involved with many international institutions for research and quality assurance, such as Korea Legislation Research Institute (ALIN) and ASEAN University Network (AUN). He has been teaching Civil Law, Property Law, Land Law, Business Law, and Research Methodology.