Bruce Lasky, J.D., LL.M.

Mr Lasky is the Co-Founder and Director of BABSEA CLE and a Co-Founder and International Organizing Committee Member of the Annual SE Asia/Asia Pro Bono Conference.  He has over 23 years of work experience in assisting pro bono initiatives, legal aid, clinical legal education and justice training work.

Mr Lasky began his career in 1991 as a practicing criminal legal aid attorney, and Intern Supervisor at the University of Florida, College of Law Clinical Legal Education in the USA. He has more than 14 years of experience working in developing countries and countries in transition, implementing education and community empowerment projects, including much of that work focusing on clinical legal education, access to justice and legal aid. 

Mr Lasky has worked as both an academic and as the Director of BABSEA CLE with universities in Myanmar, Indonesia, Singapore, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Malaysia, the Lao PDR, the Philippines, Indonesia, Australia and the United States, to assist in the development or expansion of clinical legal education programmes. This has included the research and evaluation of such programs and the offering of evidence-based suggestive CLE advocacy guidance based upon the results.

Mr Lasky is a Steering Committee member and Board of Director for the Global Alliance for Justice Education, and a Co-Founder/Director for the international not-for profit organization Sustainable Cambodia.