Legal and Justice Research Centre (LJRC) was established in August 2016 as one of the School Center of Excellence (S-CoE) institutes to spearhead the legal and justice research capability of the school and to collaborate with related agencies and universities that have common interest in legal and justice research areas. Legal and Justice Research Centre (LJRC) focuses its research mainly on legal research based on government agencies and profesional bodies’ needs. The centre also concentrates on high impact legal research by aligning to the university’s niche areas through collaborating with related private companies, government agencies, local and international universities. In an effort to serve the community, another niche area for the centre is to educate communities, which include public including business communities, school, non-profit organization and other interested parties.

Shariah and Islamic Business Law Research Unit has been established to promote applied research in the area of Shari'ah and Islamic Business Law. This research unit is in charge of conducting Shariah applied research relevant to Islamic Law, Islamic banking and Finance Law and economics including halal industry and waqf. The research unit is continuously identifying issues that are in need of Shariah conceptualisation, adaptation and solution. In pursuing its objective, the unit selects relevant topics and form research clusters comprising qualified researchers and senior researchers with backgrounds in Shariah, Law, finance and economics, or any relevant field depending on the nature of the research. This research unit will also act as a repository of knowledge for Shari’ah matters and undertake studies on contemporary issues in the Islamic Business Law. Moreover, Syariah and Islamic Business Law research Unit will contribute to strengthening human capital development in Shari’ah expertise relevant to Shariah matters and Islamic business and will provide a platform for greater engagement amongst practitioners, scholars, regulators and academicians via research and training, in both the domestic and international arenas.

The International Law Research Unit (ILRU) is a special unit created on [date of establishment] under the School of Law, Universiti Utara Malaysia (UUM). ILRU brings together a group of faculty members and doctoral candidates who are interested and actively engaged in research and teaching in the area of International Law.

Climate change is presently the most pressing and profoundly complex environmental issue facing the global community. To mitigate and reduce impacts, urgent policy and governance solutions are required. The Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs) system, which applies a "bottom-up" approach, was confirmed by the historic Paris Agreement, 2016, in order to promote international cooperation and assure the effective implementation of climate change agreements. Over the past decade, there has been a surge of climate-specific legislative reform that has swept across the globe.

For Malaysia to address and respond to the Paris Agreement, they must strengthen their institutional and policy framework on climate change, improve information on climate change decision-making, create partnerships to address climate change, and develop a sustainable financial mechanism to address climate change.

Accordingly, Malaysia needs climate change experts with both global knowledge and comprehension of the local socio-economic development in order to avoid falling behind. Henceforth, higher education should concentrate on producing academics, leaders, environmental activists, and students with the appropriate combination of knowledge, skills, and attitude to steer towards sustainable development.

For this purpose, UUM researchers work under an international research project funded by Erasmus+ grant called the Erasmus+ CBHE Project ID618874_CCP-Law. The main goal is to look at developing and designing new curricula on climate change policy and law at LL.M level as well as creating a centre on climate change policy and law (CCP-Law) – which is Climate Change Law Research Unit (CLIMATE).