Dr. Ramy Bulan

Research Fellow and the Director of the Centre for Legal Pluralism and Indigenous Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Malaya

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Dr Ramy Bulan retired as Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Malaya where she continues as a Research Fellow and the Director of the Centre for Legal Pluralism and Indigenous Law at the Faculty of Law. Dr Ramy has published widely and speaks on legal and human rights issues relating to indigenous peoples, from constitutional legal pluralism, customary laws and native land rights, to indigenous knowledge systems and their institutions and restorative justice, as well as cultural heritage and environmental governance. She conducts a postgraduate course on Indigenous Peoples in International Law, and Comparative Native Title at the LLB program. She is co-author of Introduction to the Malaysian Legal System (Oxford- Bakti (2002) and co-editor of “An Anthology of Indigenous Peoples’ Issues" published by Thomson-Reuters, Sweet and Maxwell in October 2022.

As part of her grassroots involvement with Orang Asli and native peoples issues, in 2021 she successfully facilitated a multistakeholder dispute resolution involving IOI-Pelita Sdn Bhd and nine (9) native village communities, settling a longstanding dispute of more than 20 years over oil palm plantations and native customary lands in the Tinjar, Sarawak. A member of the Malaysian Timber Certification Council (MTCC) Dispute Resolution Committee, she is also presently a member of the WWF Malaysia Board of Trustees, and is a member of the International Board of Trustees for Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF) since 2024.