Author Datuk Shad Saleem Faruqi presents a copy of ‘Our Constitution’ to Chief Justice of Malaysia, Tan Sri Richard Malanjum during its launch in Kuala Lumpur March 20, 2019. — Picture by Miera Zulyana
“I still remember the first encounter with Prof Shad, not jurisprudence, but constitutional law. That was the first-year subject that you taught us,” Malanjum said at the book launch in Universiti Malaya . “Thank you Prof for making it possible, initially nobody like jurisprudence... And that’s why until today, he’s my teacher,” he added.
Shad Saleem, who is also a member of the Judicial Appointments Commission and a member of the Institutional Reforms Committee, is currently an emeritus professor in the UM law faculty as the Tunku Abdul Rahman Foundation chair. “I hope this book will find its way to all the libraries of universities, to all the government departments, to the civil service because they are the ones who make decisions that affect our lives, daily lives,” he later added.