Dr. Siti Zubaidah Ismail is currently Associate Professor at Shariah and Law Department, University of Malaya Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. She graduated with Bachelor of Shariah from University of Malaya, Master of Comparative Laws from International Islamic University Malaysia, LL.M from Birmingham University and PhD (Malaya). Her main research interests are on the Islamic law and criminal justice in contemporary Muslim countries, particularly in Southeast Asia.   Her current research is on the history of Islam and Islamic law and the interaction of Islamic law in society relating to Muslim converts, inter-religious marriage, criminal justice, freedom of religion and human rights. She was Visiting Fellow at Asian Law Institute, National University of Singapore in 2010 and Visiting Scholar at Faculty of Law Universitas Indonesia in 2016. She was one of the recipients for AUA Scholars Award 2019 and UI-Resolv Visiting Scholar Awards 2016. Previously she was Head of Shariah and Law Department (2011-2016), Deputy Dean for Humanities and Ethics Research Cluster (2018)  and the faculty's Deputy Director for Research and Development (2019-2021). Outside the University, she is Senior Research Fellow with Centre for Human Rights Research and Advocacy (CENTHRA) since 2017 and Deputy Chairman of PERAMAH Foundation (an NGO) and exco member for Malaysian Alliance of Civil Society in the UPR Process (MACSA). She has more than 115 articles published and the author of four books.