He worked as a junior lawyer with the famous lawyer and statesman Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy, who was the last Prime Minister of Bengal and fifth Prime Minister of Pakistan. Hossain enrolled as an advocate in the High Court of East Pakistan. He was called to the bar of England and Wales in Lincoln's Inn in 1959. Hossain studied in the United States at the University of Notre Dame and in the United Kingdom at the University of Oxford. His autobiography Bangladesh: Quest for Freedom and Justice is an important book on Bangladeshi history, particularly regarding the creation of Bangladesh in 1971. Hossain currently heads his own law firm in Dhaka, serves as president of the Gano Forum political party, and advocates for democratic reform. He is known as the "father of the Bangladeshi constitution" and regarded as an icon of secular democracy in the Indian subcontinent. Kamal Hossain (born 20 April 1937) is a founding leader, lawyer and politician of Bangladesh. One of the key authors of the Constitution of Bangladesh Chairman of the Constitution Drafting Committee in the Constituent Assembly of Bangladesh
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