Promoting Sustainability, While Covering Governance-Related Issues

The CoE for Sustainability and Governance is dedicated to promoting a better understanding of the green economy, digital banking, accounting integrity and transparency, information technology law, environmental law (which includes conventional and Syariah perspectives), public health law and policy as the country works towards achieving the SDGs.

Researches

  • 3 World Top 2% Scientists
  • 7 Professors and Associate Professors
  • 123 Academic Researchers
  • 4 Postdoctoral Research Fellows (Postdoc)
  • 2 Graduate Research Assistants (GRA)

Research Centres

  • Centre for Accounting, Finance and Economics (CAFE)
  • Centre for Legal Research (CLR)
  • Centre for Law and Technology (CLT)
  • Centre for Syariah Law (CSL)

Research Projects & Initiatives

  • 4 Research Projects with Industry
  • 4 Joint International Research Projects
  • 10 Knowledge Transfer Programmes (KTP)

Centre Focus

Promote interdisciplinary research on sustainability issues
Promote interdisciplinary research on sustainability issues
Facilitate the introduction of laws and policies that promote sustainability across the country
Facilitate the introduction of laws and policies that promote sustainability across the country
Foster partnerships with academic institutions and industry leaders
Foster partnerships with academic institutions and industry leaders
Enhance workforce skills in
AI technologies
Enhance workforce skills in
AI technologies
Create sustainability awareness among the populace
Create sustainability awareness among the populace
Identifying and implementing sustainability-enhancing projects
Identifying and implementing sustainability-enhancing projects

Strengths & Areas of Expertise

The CoE specialises in several focus domains related to AI, including:

Climate action, environmental sustainability, social sustainability, accounting integrity & transparency, risk management, digital banking, socio-economic issues, economic policy analysis.

Environmental law, civil procedure, criminal law, company law, consumer law, sports law, and banking law.

Labor law, tourism law, contract and business from Islamic perspective, education law, animal rights and protection laws, Waqaf and endowment, and human rights issue.

Intellectual property law, artificial intelligence, blockchain application in law, and medical law.

Research Centres

The CoE comprises four specialised research centres, each focusing on distinct areas that support the field of Sustainability and Governance.

Centre for Accounting, Finance and Economics (CAFE)

  • Accounting Integrity & Transparency​
  • Monetary System and Policy
  • Socio-Economic Issues (Poverty, Income and Employment) ​
  • Health Economics
  • Environmental Economics ​
  • International Economics
  • Sustainable Development Goals

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