A student guide to Equity and Equitable Remedies in Malaysia (eBook)

Prof. To’ Puan Dr. Nor Asiah Mohamad holds a PhD in Land Law and Equity (IIUM). She holds LLB Hons (IIUM) and LLB in Shariah (IIUM) degrees, as well as a Master of Comparative Laws (IIUM). Her area of specialization is Land Law, Strata Law, Islamic endowment (Waqf), Islamic Property Law and Housing Law. She has deep interest in the harmonization of laws. She also teaches Sustainability and Parenting and Family Management courses at undergraduate level. She has published articles, contributed chapters in books on Commercial Law, land law, Waqf, Islamic Finance and Harmonisation law, and published books on Waqf, Land, Equity and Equitable Remedies. She has also taken lead in various research and consultancy work related to water, land, strata, waqf, residential tenancies, short term tenancy and housing. She holds various administrative posts as Principal, Director of Student Development, Head of the Civil Law Department, Deputy Dean for Post Graduate Studies and as a member of the Land Tenure and Environmental Unit and of the Property Law Unit, and forms a part of the Main Committee of International Waqf Action (i-Waqf).

Prof. Sharifah Zubaidah holds a Bachelor of Laws (Honours) IIUM, a Master of Comparative Laws (IIUM), a Doctor of Legal Science (SJD, Bond University), and is a non-practising Advocate & Solicitor of the High Court of Malaya. She has served in the Civil Law Department, Ahmad Ibrahim Kulliyyah of Laws, International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM) as an academic staff since 1994. She teaches Land Law and Property Law and is also currently the Associate Editor for INSAF Journal of the Malaysian Bar, Coordinator of the Property Law Research Unit (PLRU) at the Law faculty and is a Member of the Climate Change Policy and Law Centre at IIUM. She was Deputy Dean (Academic Affairs) Ahmad Ibrahim Kulliyyah of Laws (2008-2010) and Director, International Centre for Waqf Research (ICWR-IIUM) (2014-2017). Prof. Sharifah has trained participants on Land and Property Law in programmes organized by UNHABITAT and various government agencies (ILKAP, PLANMalaysia, AG’s Chambers), PETRONAS and the Malaysian Bar. She has authored 22 journal articles and 16 chapters in books and co-authored/ edited 5 books, namely Land Use Planning and Environmental Sustainability (IIUM Press, 2006), Principles of Land Law (Lexis Nexis, 2008), Student Guide on Equity and Equitable Remedies (LexisNexis, 2016), Waqf in Selected Asian Countries (PNMB, 2019) and most recently, Malaysian Land Law and Procedure (Thomson Reuters, Sweet & Maxwell, 2022).