Sharif Bhuiyan is a Bangladeshi lawyer and member of the

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of the

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led by

Muhammad Yunus Muhammad Yunus (born 28 June 1940) is a Bangladeshi economist, entrepreneur, and civil society leader who has been serving as the Chief Adviser of Bangladesh, Chief Adviser of the Interim government of Muhammad Yunus, interim Yunus ministry, g ...

. He is the Deputy Head of Chambers at Dr. Kamal Hossain and Associates. He is a former lawyer of

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Early life

Bhuiyan did his bachelor's and master's in law at the University of Dhaka. He did his PhD in law at the

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Career

Bhuiyan became a member of

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in 1997. He joined the University of Dhaka as a lecturer in 2000. In 2006, Bhuiyan was a Visiting Fellow at the

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at the

. From 2006 to 2008, he taught law at

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. He is a member of the Dhaka Bar Association and the

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. From 2007 to 2014, he was an honorary director of the South Asian Institute of Advanced Legal and Human Rights Studies. He represented Bangladesh at the

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along with Dr. Kamal Hossain in a case filed by

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. He was one of the editors of the 2014 book International Law and Developing Countries: Essays in Honour of Kamal Hossain. Bhuiyan started to practice in the Appellate Division of the Bangladesh Supreme Court in 2015. He represented photographer

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in 2018 after he was charged under the

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. In 2019, he represented Grameenphone one behalf of whom he sent a legal notice to the President of Bangladesh challenging a penalty by

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. In 2023, he was identified as one of the top 20 lawyers in Bangladesh by Asia Law. He has worked as a consultant of the World Bank. In 2024, Bhuiyan was recognized as a senior lawyer. He is the Deputy Head of Chambers at Dr. Kamal Hossain and Associates, founded by Dr

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who is the writer of the

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. On 27 August, he filed a petition with the Appellate Division challenging the scrapping of the Caretaker government system along with Barrister Tanim Hussain Shawon on behalf of

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, and

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. The petition challenged the 15th amendment to the constitution of Bangladesh. He secured a verdict which scrapped the 15th amendment and restored the caretaker government system. He was made a member of the Constitutional Reform Commission in October. He admitted the new government did not have a mandate for change the constitution as it was not an elected government.

References

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