Sally Frances Low

Dr Sally Frances Low is an Australian researcher in law history and a specialist in international development assistance. 

From 1993 until 2013, Sally Low was a project designer, evaluator and manager in international development programs in Asia and the Pacific with an emphasis on the rebuilding of Cambodia after the civil war, in particular in the fields of law, human rights and gender equity. From 2009 until 2023, she also served as board member for the Women’s Information Centre and the Messenger Band, two Cambodian NGOs working to empower female garment workers. 

At the same time, she completed in 2017 a PhD at Melbourne University Law School on the the administration of justice in Cambodia during French colonization (1863−1954), with historian David Chandler as thesis director. In December 2023, she published the book drawn from that research, Colonial Law Making: Cambodia Under the French.

In April 2025, Dr Sally Low opened the course ​‘Modern History of the Cambodian Legal System” part of the RULE Dual Degree program at the Royal University of Law and Economy, Phnom Penh. She was also a 
sessional lecturer on human rights law at Deakin University (Australia) in 2018.