Shamrahayu A. Aziz

On 2 April 2019, Shamrahayu, along with three other academicians, Universiti Teknologi Mara (UiTM) law professor Datuk Dr. Rahmat Mohamad and two Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia law lecturers Dr. Fareed Mohd Hassan, and Hisham Hanapi sought for audience with the Council of Rulers to present an executive summary regarding the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.

Among the books in which she wrote includes Islam dalam Perlembagaan Persekutuan (2018), Isu-Isu dalam Penguatkuasaan Undang-Undang Jenayah Islam (2016), Issues in the Enforcement of Islamic Criminal Law in Malaysia (2011), Polemik dalam Pindaan Bidang Kuasa Mahkamah Syariah (2016) and Criminal Procedure in Syariah Courts (2011). She also contributed to the writing of the book Kontrak Sosial: Perlembagaan Persekutuan Pengikat Jatidiri Bangsa Malaysia Merdeka (2014) that talks about the institution of the Federal Constitution of Malaysia, and has also edited three books including a compilation of the writings of the former Chief Justice of Malaysia, Tun Abdul Hamid Mohamad.

She's also a member of the National Shariah Law Technical Committee at the Prime Minister's Department in 2014.

She later got her Diploma in Shariah Legal Practise (DSLP) at the International Islamic University of Malaysia in 2001, and later received her Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Law six years later.

In 1995, she began working as a lecturer at the Ahmad Ibrahim Kulliyyah of Laws, International Islamic University of Malaysia, where she began doing a lot of research and academic works regarding civic affairs, writing about the relation of etiquette and ethnics as well as civilisation.

Shamrahayu began working at the International Islamic University of Malaysia as a lecturer in 1995. She wrote many writings published in law journals, books, as well as newspapers and other types of media, where as of the year 2020, she has written over 500 articles and presented over 100 papers.

Shamrahayu binti A. Aziz (Jawi: شمرحايو بنت عبد العزيز; born 5 June 1968) is a law lecturer at the Ahmad Ibrahim Kulliyyah of Laws (AIKOL), International Islamic University of Malaysia (IIUM), Malaysia, and the incumbent Institution of the Malay Rulers Chair at Universiti Teknologi Mara (UiTM). She writes weekly as a columnist on the Malay daily newspaper, Berita Harian, as well as on her website. She does many research regarding Malaysian national affairs, the Malaysian Federal Constitution, Sharia law, and human rights. She is also a Principal Fellow at the Institute of Islamic Understanding Malaysia (IKIM).

Shamrahayu was born on 5 June 1968 in the state of Kelantan, Malaysia. At the age of 23, she resumed her studies at the International Islamic University of Malaysia in civil law and Sharia law. She later took a master's degree in comparative laws (MCL) at the same university in 1993.