University of Malaya

The Faculty of Law, University of Malaya provides a liberal education in law based on a comprehensive approach to law as an academic discipline. The Faculty also equips students with practical professional skills and professional ethics including a critical study of laws to satisfy the needs of organisations, social changes and justice.

Since its inception in 1972, the Faculty offers its Bachelor of Laws programme at the undergraduate level (LLB). The LLB programme represents a combination of the academic and professional disciplines which will entitle the holder of the degree to be admitted as an advocate and solicitor of the High Court at the end of his pupillage.

The Faculty's staff strength is about 40. Although the majority of them are Malaysian citizens, from time to time the Faculty receives visiting academics from other common law countries such as India, Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States. They deliver lectures and seminars to students, particularly at the postgraduate level. The Faculty's external examiners chosen from academics from Australia, the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth countries and including the Judicial Service of Malaysia, ensure that the academic standards of its programmes are maintained.

The Faculty also conducts the Bachelor of Jurisprudence (External) Programme. The Faculty handles the registration of students and the examination but students are responsible for their own learning. Each year, the Faculty conducts an introductory course and a revision course for external students in order to guide them in their learning and preparation for examination. These courses are conducted as part of the Legal Education Extension Programme (LEEP) which also conducts other short courses from time to time.

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