Dr. Syahirah Abdul Shukor is Prestigious Session Speaker at IN4OBE Global Summit 2022
Syahirah Abdul Shukor is a senior law lecturer in Faculty of Syariah and Law,
Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia. Currently, the Coordinator for PhD in Law in Faculty
of Syariah and Law. She was one of the early pioneers in Faculty of Syariah and Law
(formerly, it was known a Faculty of Syariah and Judiciary, Kolej Universiti Islam
Malaysia (KUIM) before it was renamed as Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia (USIM) in
2007. She was appointed as the Deputy Dean (Academic & Research), Faculty of
Syariah and Law in 2010 until 2012. At the same time, she was also the Head
Program for Diploma Islamic Judiciary (DIJAP). In September 2014, she was appointed
as the Dean Faculty of Syariah and Law. Her areas of specialization: cyberlaw, child
law, legal education and comparative law. She obtained her PhD from Keele
University, UK in March 2009, Master of Comparative Law (2000) as well as Bachelor
of Law (Hons) (1998) from the International Islamic University of Malaysia. She joined
the academia world since November 1999 as an Assistant Lecturer in Universiti
Tenaga Nasional, Malaysia (UNITEN). She is also the Panel for Law programs under
the Malaysian Qualifying Agency (MQA) where she is involved in reviewing new
programs and law programs offered in private universities as well as public
universitity. She is involved in drafting Halal Guideline as a standard in SIRIM, MS
2393: “Prinsip Islam dan Halal- definasi dan penafsiran istilah” and involved in a few
series of training for Halal Certification for trainers in USIM and also pioneering
Bachelor of Syariah (Halal Industry) when she was the Dean. She is also an accredited
mediator by the Malaysian Mediation Centre, Bar Council Malaysia since December
2015 and also a member of Majlis Perundingan Islam under the Deputy Prime
Minister of Malaysia (2016-2018). She has been invited as keynote speakers for
International conference talk on legal education, data protection laws and protection
of children on the Internet. She has received various research grants from USIM, the
Ministry of Higher Learning for research on the Future of Legal Education in Malaysia
(2012-2013), Ministry of Higher Education under Fundamental Research Grant
Scheme (FRGS) (2013-2017), Committee for Legal Reform (JPUUM), Legal Affairs
Division of Prime Minister’s Office (2013-2015), Negeri Sembilan Islamic Religious
Council (MAINS) (2014-2016) Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (2016-2018) a
colloboration for environmental law study. She is also received a research scheme
awarded by JAKIM in 2019. She was also involved in Halal Executive trainings on
Muslim Friendly Tourism in 2019. She was awarded as one of the top 100
researchers in USIM in 2018. Besides that she also received research grants from
private company such as Andalusia (2012-2015) and from Multimedia University
(2014-2016). Currently, she leads a research on the Impacts of Legal Education in
Malaysia, a research award granted by Jabatan Pendidikan Tinggi Malaysia since
January 2022. She has authored various books on various legal issues. . She was also
the Visiting Professor in Fakultas Hukum, Briwijaya University, Indonesia. ( April,
2021)
She can be contacted at syahirah@usim.edu.my