Sharif Bhuiyan is a Bangladeshi lawyer and member of the Constitutional Reform Commission of the Yunus ministry led by Muhammad Yunus. [1] [2] He is the Deputy Head of Chambers at Dr. Kamal Hossain and Associates. [3] He is a former lawyer of Grameenphone. [4]
Bhuiyan did his bachelor's and master's in law at the University of Dhaka. [3] He did his PhD in law at the University of Cambridge. [3]
Bhuiyan became a member of Bangladesh Bar Council in 1997. [3] He joined the University of Dhaka as a lecturer in 2000. [3]
In 2006, Bhuiyan was a Visiting Fellow at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law at the University of Cambridge. [3] From 2006 to 2008, he taught law at BRAC University. [3] He is a member of the Dhaka Bar Association and the Bangladesh Supreme Court Bar Association. [3] From 2007 to 2014, he was an honorary director of the South Asian Institute of Advanced Legal and Human Rights Studies. [5] He represented Bangladesh at the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes along with Dr. Kamal Hossain in a case filed by Chevron. [6] He was one of the editors of the 2014 book International Law and Developing Countries: Essays in Honour of Kamal Hossain. [7]
Bhuiyan started to practice in the Appellate Division of the Bangladesh Supreme Court in 2015. [3] He represented photographer Shahidul Alam in 2018 after he was charged under the Information and Communication Technology Act, 2006. [8] In 2019, he represented Grameenphone one behalf of whom he sent a legal notice to the President of Bangladesh challenging a penalty by Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission. [9] In 2023, he was identified as one of the top 20 lawyers in Bangladesh by Asia Law. [10] He has worked as a consultant of the World Bank. [5]
In 2024, Bhuiyan was recognized as a senior lawyer. [3] He is the Deputy Head of Chambers at Dr. Kamal Hossain and Associates, [3] founded by Dr Kamal Hossain who is the writer of the Constitution of Bangladesh. [11] On 27 August, he filed a petition with the Appellate Division challeging the scrapping of the Caretaker government system along with Barrister Tanim Hussain Shawon on behalf of Badiul Alam Majumdar, M Hafizuddin Khan, Md Jobirul Hoque Bhuiyan, Tofail Ahmed, and Zahrah Rahman. [12] The petition challenged the 15th amendment to the constitution of Bangladesh. [13] He secured a verdict which scrapped the 15th amendment and restored the caretaker government system. [14] He was made a member of the Constitutional Reform Commission in October. [15] He admitted the new government did not have a mandate for change the constitution as it was not an elected government. [16]