[1] He was a former professor at the Department of Law, University of Rajshahi He was also a freedom fighter and academician.

Mohammad Shah Alam was born on October 14, 1951, in Munshiganj, part of Dhaka Division to Md.

He briefly studied economics at University of Dhaka at the time of Bangladesh Liberation War.

Considering its importance, he integrated clinical legal education in the curriculum of the Faculty of Law, University of Chittagong, which was first of its kind in Bangladesh.

2 as an independence activist of the Bangladesh Liberation War along with his elder and younger brother in his hometown Bikrampur, Munshigonj.