Bruce Lasky
Director/Founder at BABSEACLE
Bruce Lasky, J.D.; LL.M. is the Co-Founder/Director of BABSEACLE and a Co-Founder, and International Organizing Committee Member of the regionally developed Asia Pro Bono Consortium. This initiative has helped to co-organize globally attended pro bono events in Australia, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Laos, Maldives, Myanmar, Singapore, Thailand, USA, and Vietnam. He has over 25 years of work experience in assisting pro bono initiatives, legal aid, clinical legal education and justice training work. He began his career in 1991 as a practicing criminal legal aid attorney. He has more than 17 years of experience working in developing countries and countries in transition, implementing education and community empowerment projects, including much of that work focusing on pro bono, clinical legal education, access to justice and legal aid. His work also includes his volunteer positions as a Board of Director for the Southeast Asia Legal Aid Network (SEALAW), the Global Alliance for Justice Education (GAJE) and Sustainable Cambodia (SC).
He has worked as both an academic and/or as the Director of BABSEACLE 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 and pro bono programmes. This has included the research and evaluation of such programs and the offering of evidence-based suggestive CLE and pro bono advocacy guidance based upon the results. He is also a Steering Committee member and Board of Director for the not for profit network organization, The Global Alliance for Justice Education and a Co-Founder/Director for the international not-for profit organization Sustainable Cambodia.