Chairman In charge:
Dr.M. Shah Alam                                 

Dr. M. Shah Alam, member, Law Commission, has been appointed as the Chairman in Charge of the Law Commission on  24 October, 2010.      

Member:
Dr.M. Shah Alam   

Dr. M. Shah Alam, a professor of law at the University of Chittagong, 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 People’s 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 University 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.    

Honorary Member :
MD. Abdul Mobarok

Who was who in Law Commission

1. Justice F K M A Munim              Chairman           from            08.08. 1996 to 31.12.1997 

    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 to 07.10.2010 

            6. Dr. Shah Alam                                         ....                        ....            24.10.2010 to .....

Members of the Commission:

               1.       Justice Naimuddin Ahmed              from                       25.05.1996 to 26.06.2003

2.       Justice Amin-Ur-Rahman                …                    23.09.1996 to  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 to 09.01.2011

9.       Dr. Shah Alam                     …                                     24.06.2009- to ...