Mahbubur Rahman (academic)

Rahman completed his Secondary School Certificate from Sena Palli High School in 1994 and his Higher Secondary Certificate from Dhaka College in 1996.^[4] He pursued legal studies at the University of Dhaka, obtaining a Bachelor of Laws in 2000 and a Master of Laws in 2001.^[4] He later earned a Post-Graduate Diploma in International Humanitarian Law from NALSAR University of Law in 2009.^[4] Rahman completed his Ph.D. in criminal law from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London.^[5][4]

Rahman began his academic career in May 2004 as a Lecturer in the Department of Law at Northern University, Bangladesh.^[5][4] In September 2006, he joined the Department of Law at the University of Dhaka as a lecturer.^[4][5] His research interests include criminal law, legal theory, human rights, and law and society.^[4]

Rahman is an elected member of the Executive Council of the Asian Society of International Law and serves as the Treasurer of the Bangladesh Chapter of the organization.^[4] He is also a Life Trustee of the AsianSIL Bangladesh Trust and a member of the Bangladesh Law Association.^[4] Furthermore, he is a member of the Ethical Review Committee at the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh.^[4]

In May 2019, Rahman was promoted to full professor at the University of Dhaka.^[5] Between 2021 and 2022, he was a member of the National Inquiry Committee on Violence Against Women and Children and Rape under the National Human Rights Commission of Bangladesh.^[4] He is a lecturer and head of the department of law at Independent University, Bangladesh.^[6] He also teaches law at Dhaka International University.^[7]

Following the fall of the Sheikh Hasina led Awami League government, Rahman was made a member of the Anti-Corruption Commission reform commission of the Muhammad Yunus led interim government.^[8]