Shahrul Mizan bin Ismail | Dean, Universiti Malaya Centre for Continuing Education (UMCCed)
Universiti Malaya

Associate  Professor Dr. Shahrul Mizan Bin Ismail is the Dean of the University Malaya Centre for Continuing Education (UMCCED), University Malaya (UM). Previously, he was the Deputy Dean at the Faculty of Law, National University of Malaysia (UKM) from 2019-2022 and the Deputy Director (Learning Technologies), Centre for Teaching & Learning Technologies (CTLT), UKM from 2017-2019. He is also an Advocate & Solicitor of the High Court of Malaya, Malaysia and was called to the Malaysian Bar in 2004. His areas of specialization are: (1) International Human Rights Law; (2) Civil Litigation & Civil Procedure; and (3) Legal Education.
Since 2021, Assoc Prof Dr. Shahrul Mizan Ismail has been appointed as the Academic Advisor for the Faculty of Law, HELP University. He is also the External Examiner and Advisor for the Diploma Programme for International Islamic University College of Selangor (KUIS) Malaysia since 2016. He was also the External Examiner and Advisor for the LL.B Programme for Malaysia’s Multimedia University (MMU) from 2017-2021. He was also a Member of the Board of Advisor, Institute of Research and National Integration Training (IKLIN), Department of National Unity and Integration (JPNIN), Malaysia’s Prime Minister Department from 2017-2018. He is a legal-education technology enthusiast and an e-learning practitioner. His areas of specialization are both in law and educational technology, with emphasis on gamification and game-based learning in higher education, augmented and virtual reality in legal education, mobile learning, technology acceptance as well as active learning.


For his outstanding and significant work in education, he has received numerous prestigious awards at the national level, university level as well as at the faculty level. He is the Winner of the ‘Reimagining & Redesigning Malaysia Higher Education Award 2017 (Category: Transformative Teaching through Interactive Lecture)’, an award by the Malaysian Ministry of Higher Education. He had been awarded the National University of Malaysia (UKM) ‘Best Teacher’ Award in 2017. In 2014, he had also been awarded the ‘Best Teacher’ Award by the International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM). He was awarded the ‘Innovative Lecturer’ Award by the Faculty of Law in 2018. In 2016, he is the Winner of ‘The UKM MOOC Design Competition’. In September 2018, he was invited as a Visiting Professor to Fakultas Hukum, Universitas Brawijaya, Malang, Surabaya, Indonesia for his expertise in International Human Rights Law and legal education.
Assoc Prof Dr. Shahrul Mizan Ismail obtained his LL.B (Hons) from International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM) in 2003. He obtained his LL.M (Human Rights Law) from the


University of Nottingham, United Kingdom in 2006. In 2013, he obtained his Ph.D. in Law from the National University of Malaysia (UKM).
Assoc Prof Dr Shahrul Mizan Ismail had published a number of textbook and journal articles as well as newspaper articles in his areas of specialization. Among the textbook written by him are: ‘Gamifikasi dan Pembelajaran Berasaskan Permainan dalam Pendidikan Undang-Undang’, ‘A Thematic Introduction to Human Rights Law: A Malaysian and International Perspective’; ‘Civil Litigation & Injunctive Reliefs in Malaysia: A Practical Guide’, ‘Civil Litigation in Malaysia: A Practical Guide to Drafting Pleadings’; and ‘International Encyclopedia of Law: Civil Procedure in Malaysia'.