Matthew Nicolas Rendall is an Australian lawyer admitted to the roll of the Supreme Court of NSW, Australia in 1991. He is currently a member of the Law Society of NSW. Mr. Rendall has been working in the legal sector in Cambodia since the beginning of 1994. He has been a legal consultant on Cambodian legal development programs with The Asia Foundation, and the University of San Francisco, School of Law. He has authored and co-authored a number of legal training texts on Cambodia Constitutional Law, Cambodia Property law, Cambodian Labor Law, Cambodian and International Human Rights law, Contract law, Sales of Goods law, ADR, and Democracy, a Citizens' Role. He served as professor of law at Cambodia's leading law schools including the Faculty of Law, the law program at the National Institute of Management; and as head teacher and project coordinator at the University of San Francisco's Cambodian Community Legal Education Center; as well as legal trainer for Municipality of Phnom Penh. He is also a land law instructor at the Royal School for Judges and Magistrates, and also serves as the only foreign Arbitrator on the Cambodian Labor Arbitration Council. Formerly a member of the Cambodia non-governmental working group on Land Law, Mr. Rendall recently authored a text book on the new Cambodian Land Law of 2001 for the ADB.
Outside of Cambodia, Mr. Rendall has served as a consultant to the Government of Indonesia on legal issues pertaining to terrorist financing and money laundering (2002). He was also the project coordinator and course designer for a USF Indonesia law training project for Indonesian Law professors and government officials (2002).
Prior to his arrival in Cambodia Mr. Rendall was a practicing immigration attorney with Refugee Council of Australia, (1992-1994) and the Senior Commercial and Property Law Clerk at McMahons Solicitors and Attorneys, Sydney, Australia 1986-1991.
Mr. Rendall studied law at the University of Sydney, School of Law, (SAB), NSW, Australia (graduated 1991) and successfully completed the requisite practical training course at the College of Law, St. Leonards, NSW, (Certificate in Practical Training - prerequisite to admission in NSW). He continues to maintain his membership of the Law Society of NSW and was the subject of an article in the NSW Law Society Journal on his work in Cambodia.