UiTM Malaysia Law School
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| Type | Public |
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| Established | 1968 |
| Dean | Haidar Dziyauddin (Assoc. Prof. Dr.) |
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Administrative staff
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69 |
| Students | 1144 |
| Location | Shah Alam, Selangor, Malaysia |
| Campus | Urban |
| Tagline | Cutting Edge Legal Knowledge |
| Affiliations | Universiti Teknologi MARA Malaysia |
| Website | [1] |
UiTM Faculty of Law is one of the professional graduate faculty of UiTM and is located in Shah Alam, Malaysia.
The current Dean of the faculty is Haidar Dziyauddin (Assoc. Prof. Dr.), who assumed the role in 2009.
The faculty currently consists of some 69 academic staff. It has about 1,144 students studying pre-law, BLS (Hons) and LL.B (Hons) and postgraduate programmes (Ph.D. and LL.M. programmes).
The Faculty of Law was founded in 1968. It was formerly known as the Faculty of Administration and Law and before as the School of Administration and Law. It began as a centre offering British external programmes, namely the LL.B(Hons) University of London and the Chartered Institute of Secretaries (now Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators). The only internal programme offered then was the Diploma in Public Administration and Local Government.
On 14 January 2004, the Faculty of Administration and Law have been separated to two faculties namely the Faculty of Law and the Faculty of Administrative Science and Policy Studies.
In 1978, the LL.B (Hons) University of London programme was discontinued and replaced by the Diploma in Law (DIL) programme. The DIL programme is equivalent to the LL.B programme offered in British Universities. It is a three-year academic programme based on the structure of British Universities undergraduate law programmes. Unlike most of the British programmes however, the DIL programme at the faculty is conducted on a semester system.
Soon after, the faculty had renamed its programmes and DIL was renamed as the LL.B (general law degree). The LL.B programme, however, was replaced with the Bachelor of Legal Studies (Hons) or BLS (Hons), which was introduced in 2002.
In 1982, the Faculty introduced a one-year Advanced Diploma in Law (ADIL) programme for graduates of the DIL programme. The ADIL programme is equivalent to a LL.B (Hons) degree and recognised for legal practice. It is a simulatory programme designed to provide professional training for students in preparation for their career in the legal practice as Advocates and Solicitors. ADIL then became the LL.B (Hons). This LL.B(Hons) programme is unique in which it was designed after the Inns of Court in England. The students are put in a simulated legal office environment in which they are designated in firms and given case studies.
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