Sharif Bhuiyan

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 challenging 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]