Taylor's Law School
Staff Profile
 
Dato' Mahadev Shankar Dato' Mahadev Shankar
Adjunct Professor
 
Barrister of Law of the Inner Temple
Advocate and Solicitor of the High Court of Malaya
 



Guest Lectures/ Plenary Papers Delivered
  • Attended numerous legal conferences both locally and internationally. In many of these he has been the keynote speaker.
  • Visiting professor to the University of Malaya in 1998.
  • Honorary Visiting Professor in Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
  • Associate of the College of Law in Sydney, Australia for their course on Advocacy for post graduate students.

Awards & Honours
  • 1969 : Member of the National Goodwill Council
  • 1971 : Royal Commissioner for the Reform of the Laws of Marriage and Divorce in Malaysia
  • Member of the Legal Profession Qualifying Board established under the Legal Profession Act
  • 1998 : Member of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Injuries sustained by Dato Seri Anwar Ibrahim whilst in police custody
  • The founder president of the Medico-Legal Society of Malaysia
  • President of the Astronomical Society of Malaysia
  • Vice-President of Zoo Negara for many years
  • 1999 – 2001: One of the founder members of the Human Rights Commission of Malaysia and was thereafter nominated as its representative as Jurist in the Asia Pacific Forum until 2006
  • 2005 : A Paul Harris Fellow in Rotary International and Chairman of the Gandhi Memorial Trust
  • An Honorary Fellow of the Malaysian Institute of Arbitrators

Professional Affiliations
  • 1961 – 1983 : Partner in Shearn Delamore & Co. During this period he was actively engaged in general litigation
  • International Society for Language Studies (Reviewer of journal papers)
  • 1975 – 1983 : Board Member of several public companies including Malaysian Airlines System Bhd
  • August 1983 : Judge of the High Court of Malaya
  • 1994 : Judge of the Court of Appeal
  • 1997 : Member of the Malaysian Bar Council for many years
  • Legal Consultant in Zaid Ibrahim & Co.
  • Active in the field of Domestic and International Arbitration
  • Registered Panel member in the Regional Centre of Arbitration Kuala Lumpur and in the Singapore International Arbitration Centre.