Dr. Sherin Kunhibava is a Senior Lecturer at the University Malaya Law faculty. Her area of expertise is in commercial law and Islamic finance law. Apart from her fifteen years of teaching experience in academia, Dr. Sherin has also worked at Pacific Bank Bhd., International Shariah Research Academy (ISRA) and Wisdom Management Consultancy Sdn. Bhd. Her working experience has been in the area of commercial law which includes contract law, company law and Islamic finance and banking. Dr. Sherin has also provided training under the LEEP program at University Malaya and for a number of years was the examiner for two external bodies, namely the Malaysian Association of Company Secretaries and the Malaysian Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators. She also sits on the editorial board of the Journal of Malaysian and Comparative Law as a Subject Editor and is the Academic Advisor to the Student Journal of UMLR of the faculty of Law. Since 2018 Dr Sherin has worked on research projects funded by external grants researching on regulatory issues for digital solutions for the financial industry. In particular, blockchain. She was part of a team of researchers who were one of the first to report on regulatory issues in the blockchain space in Malaysia – the report can be viewed here: https://law.um.edu.my/Research-UMCORS/RegTech/UM%20-20Malaysian%20Blockchain%20Regulatory%20Research%20Report.pdf.   Currently Dr. Sherin is researching on the legal and Shariah issues in the use of blockchain and regtech for the Islamic capital market product sukuk.