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