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He was born at Chasara in Narayanganj in 1942. The turbulence of 1960s, when the youth shook the world against injustice and oppression especially in Asia, Europe and Americas did not spare him; and he however obtained his B.Sc and LL.B and joined the District Bar at Mymensingh to practice law in 1968-69. In the month of February, 1976 he was enrolled to practice in the High Court Division of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh and then, in 1981 in the Appellate Division of said Court. On 24 October, 1999 he was elevated as a Judge of the High Court Division of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh. He is a widely travelled person. He participated the Colloquium of senior judges of SAARC countries in December,2003 in Delhi, India. Within very short time of his judgeship, he made his mark in the judiciary and caught the imagination of the nation. He was already known to the Bar and Bench for thought provoking publications in defense of the rule of law, the constitution and the human rights. For his contribution to the cause of justice as a judge, he was appointed by the Government to lead the Law Commission of Bangladesh within few days of his retirement. After he has taken over the charge, the Law Commission is refurbished and reconstituted, and the people started taking interest in the functioning of Law Commission and reform of the laws of Bangladesh.
He obtained Master's Degree in History from the University of Dhaka and Bachelor of Law Degree from Central Law college, Dhaka. Ever since his academic life, he bore the impress of a judicial sentiment which consequently called upon him to join in Dhaka Bar as an Advocate in 1979 and then as a Munsif (now Assistant Judge) in Bangladesh Civil Service (Judicial) on April, 1980. He reared up a sublime judicial personality with continual promotion as Subordinate Judge (now Joint District Judge), Additional District & Sessions Judge and also District & Sessions Judge. He has given the best part of his life to the careful study of law in the quest for fair justice. He got the opportunity of acquainting himself with diverse experiences in the field of Revenue law and administration by being posted on deputation as Law officer, National Board of Revenue. Besides that during LPR period he was re-employed as Senior Law Advisor in Land Reforms Board. He actively took part in many training programs to enrich his professional career. As District judge in Rangpur, Judicial capacity building project district of world Bank participated and presided over large number of conferences, Seminars, Workshops upon Law Reforms, Court management, Legal Aid, Human rights, and Access to justice etc. His radical thoughts have gone towards all possible directions of legal necessity. His critical understanding of law finds a path of legal reform in the Law Commission.
Member: Dr. M. Shah Alam,
a professor of law at the University of Chittagong,
Who
was who in Law Commission 1. Justice F K M A Munim Chairman from 08.08. 1996 to 31.12.1997 (resigned on personal grounds)
2.
Justice Kemal Uddin Hossain
02.03.1998 to 01.03.2001 3.
3. Justice A T M Afzal
01.08.2001 to 31.07.2004 4.
4. Justice Mostafa Kamal
06.12.204 to 05.12.2007 5.
5. Justice Md. Abdur Rashid
21.04.2009- Members
of the Commission:
1.
Justice
Naimuddin Ahmed from
25.05.1996 to 26.06.2003 2.
Justice
Amin-Ur-Rahman
23.09.1996
died on 23.10.1998 3.
Dr.
Shah Alam
24.05.1999 to 14.06.2000 4.
Justice
Bimalendu Bikash Roy Chowdhury
13.12.2000 to 15.07.2001 5.
Justice
A K M Sadeq
09.08.2001 to 08.08.2004 6.
Justice
Sirajul Islam
22.04.2004 to 09.03.2009 7.
Dr.
M Enamul Huq
(Ex IG)
29.11.2004 to 28.11.2007 8.
Sunil
Chandra Paul
25.05.2009- 9. Dr. Shah Alam 24.06.2009-
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Mr.
Justice Mohmmad Abdur Rashid joined the Law Commission as Chairman on 21
April,2009. He retired on 26 January,2009 as a Judge of the High Court
Division of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh. 
Mr.
Sunil Chandra Paul was appointed as the member of the Law
Commission on May 18th, 2009. He was a former District Judge .
and
currently on deputation in Dhaka as a member of the Bangladesh Law
Commission, received his primary education at his village school in
Munshigonj. He received his secondary and higher secondary education
at a local high school and Rajshahi Cadet college, and passed SSC and
HSC examinations with distinction in 1968 and 1970 respectively. He
briefly studied economics in the University of Dhaka when Bangladesh
War of Liberation started, in which he participated actively. After
the liberation, he went to former USSR on scholarship for higher
studies. He studied there for ten years in Moscow Peoples
Friendship University, obtaining graduation, post-graduation and Ph.D.
degrees in law specializing in international law. Upon
completion of higher studies, Dr. Shah Alam joined Rajshahi Universty
Faculty of Law as an assistant professor, where he served for ten
years. In 1992 he joined the Chittagong University as an associate
professor and as the founder Dean of the reorganized Faculty of Law
and founder Chairman of the Department of Law. One of the pioneers of
clinical legal education in Bangladesh, he introduced this particular
method of legal education in the Chittagong University. In 1996 he
became a full professor of law. During 1999-2000 he worked as a member
of the Bangladesh Law Commission. Dr. Alam has published
four books on international law and constitutional law, and has edited
for several years the Chittagong University Journal of Law. He has a
good number of publications in reputed research journals at home and
abroad. He was a Japan Foundation Fellow in 1995-96 at the Tokyo
University Faculty of Law and a Senior Fulbright Fellow in 2001-2002
at the New York University School of Law. Occasionally, Dr. Alam
writes for national dailies on current issues of law.