pensyarah universiti
pusat kajian undang-undang antarabangsa & siyar (cilas)
Biografi/ Biography :
DR. HANIFF AHAMAT is an associate professor at the Faculty of Law, the National University of Malaysia (UKM). He is also currently holds the position of Deputy Legal Adviser of the same university. He has been with UKM since June 2016. Prior to that, he had been an academic staff member at the Faculty of Law, the International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM) for 15 years. He holds an LLB (Hons) from IIUM, an LLM from UKM and a PhD from University of Essex, United Kingdom. He wrote his PhD thesis on the consumer perspectives of Malaysian and EC anti-dumping regimes.
He chambered under the supervision of Dato’ Azmi Mohd Ali from Azmi & Associates, Kuala Lumpur, concentrating on general corporate practice and competition law. He is a non-practising member of the Malaysian Bar. Haniff teaches public international law, competition law and law for SME exports at the undergraduate level. He also teaches Competition Law and International Economic Law at the masters level. Haniff has researched and published on public international law, law of WTO, competition law and law of economic regulation.
His key publications include journal articles on the interface between competition law and affirmative action in Malaysia, the position of Islamic international law on free trade, and the interface between EC competition and anti-dumping laws. He also co-authored a textbook entitled Competition Law in Malaysia published by Sweet & Maxwell (2016).
He is widely consulted by the public and private sectors on the practical application of Malaysian and international laws within his areas of expertise including Competition Act 2010, Countervailing and Anti-Dumping Duties Act 1993, Malaysian customs laws and regulations, Malaysian quarantine laws, Malaysian agricultural production and marketing laws and ASEAN legal framework on non-tariff measures.
hairanie binti sa'ban, haniff bin ahamat. (2025). counterfeit medicine: should parallel import of medicine be banned in malaysia?. - jurnal undang-undang dan masyarakat. 41 - 52.
ahmad hussein alsharqawi, nabeel mahdi althabhawi, haniff ahamat. (2025). hardship in international commercial contracts. a comparative analysis of the rules of non-legislative codification. - journal of lifestyle and sdgs review. 1 - 32.
haniff ahamat. (2025). tarif trump dorong dunia nilai kembali ekonomi politik antarabangsa. - berita harian. .
arif husaini mohammad rohimi, haniff ahamat. (2025). from challenges to opportunities: legal reforms for smallholders in malaysia’s palm oil market. - malaysian journal of business and economics (mjbe). 67 - 81.
rubiah mohd amin, haniff ahamat, muhamad sayuti hassan. (2024). food sovereignty towards rice sustainability. - jurnal undang-undang dan masyarakat. 29-48.
haniff ahamat, hairanie sa`ban, nazura abdul manap. (2023). balancing intellectual property protection and legal risk assessment in registration of covid-19 vaccines in malaysia. - health care analysis. 196-207.
haniff ahamat, salawati mat basir, saidatul nadia abd aziz, mohd hisham mohd kamal. (2023). chinas south china sea claims, the historic rights debate and the middle approach of islamic international law. - journal of international studies. 265-299.
haniff ahamat, nasarudin abdul rahman. (2018). halal food, market access and exception to wto law: new aspects learned from indonesia-chicken products. - asian journal of wto and international health law. .
zuhairah ariff abd ghadas, nasarudin abdul rahman, haniff ahamat. (2018). competition and government procurement in malaysia. - national academy of managerial staff of culture and arts herald. .
nasarudin abdul rahman, haniff ahamat, zuhairah ariff abdul ghadas. (2017). the theory of harm under the malaysian competition act 2010. - pertanika journal of social sciences and humanities. 155-165.
ahmad hussein alsharqawi, nabeel mahdi althabhawi, haniff ahamat. (2025). hardship in international commercial contracts. a comparative analysis of the rules of non-legislative codification. - journal of lifestyle and sdgs review. 1 - 32.
xiangbin zuo, nur khalidah dahlan, haniff ahamat, dan wu. (2024). innovative dispute resolution: the application of blockchain in cross border e-commerce governance. - journal of ecohumanism. 7157 - 7170.
radzil, r.h.m, hamzah, h.z., ahamat, h., hassan, m. (2024). determinants of bagworms control practices and smallholders’ management towards oil palm plantations . - pakistan journal of life and social sciences. 19522 - 19535.
xiangbin zuo, nur khalidah dahlan, haniff ahamat. (2024). online dispute resolution mechanism for cross-border e-commerce: empirical evidence from china. - journal of infrastructure, policy and development. 1 - 18.
haniff ahamat, salawati mat basir, saidatul nadia abd aziz, mohd hisham mohd kamal. (2023). chinas south china sea claims, the historic rights debate and the middle approach of islamic international law. - journal of international studies. 265-299.
haniff ahamat, bani adam, nasarudin abdul rahman. (2022). micro, small and medium enterprises (msmes) and competition law in malaysia and its comparison with indonesia. - . 253-263.
thenesh anbalagan, haniff ahamat. (2021). sistem senjata berautonomi dan tanggungjawab negara di bawah undang-undang antarabangsa. - . 15-39.
haniff ahamat. (2020). the role of competition law in the investment policy in asean. - . 1-21.
haniff ahamat, nizamuddin alias. (2019). the evolution of the personality of the malay sultanate states. - brill's arab and islamic law series. 249-276.
muhammad afiq ibrahim & haniff ahamat. (2019). keberkesanan undang-undang perlindungan nelayan di malaysia. - . 173-203.
haniff ahamat. (2025). tarif trump dorong dunia nilai kembali ekonomi politik antarabangsa. - berita harian. .
nizamuddin alias, haniff ahamat. (2023). sejarah persempadanan kelantan-patani: kesannya kepada evolusi ketamadunan islam dan politi melayu semenanjung. - jurnal al-tamaddun. 117-131.
aiman danial dazuki, haniff ahamat. (2022). tangunggan persatuan perdagangan di bawah akta persaingan 2010. - . 119.
ooi zi jie, haniff ahamad. (2022). pelepasan liabiliti petani di bawah akta persaingan 2010. - . 137.
muhamad helmi bin md said;ahmad azam bin mohd. shariff;haniff bin ahamat. (2021). peranan ejen dalam perkahwinan sindiket merentasi sempadan serta kawalan terhadapnya: pelaksanaan dan penguatkuasaan undang-undang syariah di malaysia.. - . .
haniff ahamat. (2025). tarif trump dorong dunia nilai kembali ekonomi politik antarabangsa. - berita harian. .
haniff ahamat. (2024). digital transformation of small businesses: entrepreneurship and financial literacy. - . .
haniff ahamat. (2024). navigating malaysia’s economic development intricacies through legal lenses. - . .
haniff ahamat. (2024). legal and funding issues in biopesticide use against oil palm bagworms in malaysia. - 21st asian law institute conference. .
saidatul nadia binti abd aziz;salawati binti mat basir;haniff bin ahamat. (2023). managing migrant workers in asean. - . .