Abd Hakim Abd Razak is a Ph.D graduate of the School of Law, Trinity College Dublin, Republic of Ireland. He currently serves as an Assistant Professor of Law at Alfaisal University, Saudi Arabia. Hakim lectures in Corporate Governance and Regulations, Banking Law, Land Law, Labour Law and Commercial and Consumer Law (formerly termed as Sale of Goods Law). Previously, he was an assistant professor at Xiamen University Malaysia and a Senior Research Associate at the Institute of Law, South Ural State University, Russia - at the former, Hakim lectured in International Corporate Governance, International Business Law, Commercial Law, Introduction to Legal Studies and Introduction to the Constitution of Malaysia. His research currently focuses on the regulatory framework, corporate governance and Sharia’-compliant issues of artificial intelligence application in the financial services industry across key European and Islamic Banking markets.
Hakim also serves on the editorial board of the International Journal of Law and Society, and regularly reviews for several renowned journals including the Journal of Islamic Marketing, International Research Journal 'Banks and Bank System' and International Journal of Islamic and Middle Eastern Finance and Management. Hakim read law at the University of Technology MARA, Malaysia, before pursuing his LL.M in Banking Law at the International Islamic University Malaysia. Hakim had also served as a diplomatic officer for the Ministry of International Trade and Industry Malaysia, where he was involved in calibrating the Malaysian government’s commitment at the World Trade Organisation and the government’s effort to liberalise the local trade and services industry. Prior to this position, Hakim had served as a legal officer with the Sepang Municipal Council and directly involved in the major amendments of key by-laws within the state of Selangor.
At Alfaisal law school, Hakim sits in the College's Council, and holds memberships in the Curriculum Review Committee, Research and Library Committee, and the Outreach Committee. Externally, Hakim also holds academic memberships within several learned societies, associations and institutes of both legal and corporate governance scholarships, namely the European Corporate Governance Institute, Society of Legal Scholars, the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, the Corporate Governance Institute, the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, the Corporate Governance Association of Ireland and the International Future of Law Association.
A multi-lingual academia, he is conversant in four languages - Malay, English, Indonesian and Japanese.