Shahdeen Malik

Malik's father, Abdul Malik Chowdhury, was the chief conservatory officer of the Forest Department.[4] He did his masters in law at the Patrice Lumumba University in Russia in 1979.[5] He did another masters in law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1984.[5] He did his PhD at the School of Oriental and African Studies in 1994.[5]

Malik joined the University of Dhaka in 1980 as a lecturer.[5]

Malik joined Bangladesh Legal Aid and Services Trust in 1990.[5] He wrote Public Interest Litigation in South Asia - Rights in Search of Remedies in 1997.[6]

Malik started his practice at the Bangladesh Supreme Court in 2003.[5]

Malik was a founder director and faculty at the law school of BRAC University.[5]

In 2008, Malik was the lawyer for the University of Dhaka.[7]

From 2010 to 2019, Malik served at the Bangladesh Institute of Law and International Affairs as an honorary director.[8] He criticised the Fifteen Amendment to the Constitution of Bangladesh which abolished the caretaker government on 19 July after praising it on 10 July 2011.[9][10] In 2013, he was the lawyer of the Bangladesh Election Commission.[11]

Malik is a Trustee board member of the Centre for Policy Dialogue.[5] He is a member of the governing body of the ActionAid Bangladesh, and the Refugee and Migratory Movement Research Unit.[5] He is an Independent director of Pubali Bank Limited.[12] He is an Adjunct Professor at Gono University.[8]

In February 2022, Malik withdrew his name from consideration for the next election commissioner of Bangladesh.[13] He described the speech by the Minister of Law, Anisul Huq, in Geneva defending the human rights record of the government as embarrassing.[14]