Neelakanta Ramakrishna Madhava Menon (4 May 1935 – 8 May 2019) was an Indian civil servant, lawyer and legal educator, considered by many as the father of modern legal education in India.
He is the founder of
National Law Universities
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system and first director of the
National Law School of India University
The National Law School of India University (NLSIU or simply NLS) is a public law school and a National Law University located in Bangalore, Karnataka. It was the first National Law University to be established in India as well as one of the f ...
(NLSIU) and the
National Judicial Academy,
Bhopal
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and the founder-vice-chancellor of the
West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences
The West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences (WBNUJS or NUJS) is a premier public law school in India, also known as Columbia of East, and is an elite National Law University located in Bidhannagar, Kolkata, West Bengal, India. I ...
(NUJS).
He has also served as Chairman of
Indian Statistical Institute
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from 2002 to 2003.
Menon was awarded the
Padma Shri
Padma Shri (IAST: ''padma śrī''), also spelled Padma Shree, is the fourth-highest Indian honours system, civilian award of the Republic of India, after the Bharat Ratna, the Padma Vibhushan and the Padma Bhushan. Instituted on 2 January 1954, ...
in 2003
and
Padma Bhushan
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in 2020 by the
Government of India
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.
He was a member of the
Law Commission of India
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and also member of several expert Committees including on Legal Aid (1973), Civil Services Examination Reform (2000-2001), and Criminal Justice Reform (2002-2003), Police Act Drafting Committee (2005-2006) and the Committee on Draft National Policy on Criminal Justice (2006-2007)
and Committee on Restructuring of Higher Education in India appointed by the Government of India. He was a
Central Secretariat Service
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officer
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.
Biography
Menon was born on 4 May 1935 at
Thiruvananthapuram
Thiruvananthapuram (; ), also known by its former name Trivandrum (), is the capital of the Indian state of Kerala. It is the most populous city in Kerala with a population of 957,730 as of 2011. The encompassing urban agglomeration populati ...
,
Kerala
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in a middle-class
Nair
The Nair , also known as Nayar, are a group of Indian Hindu castes, described by anthropologist Kathleen Gough as "not a unitary group but a named category of castes". The Nair include several castes and many subdivisions, not all of whom histor ...
family to Bhavani Amma and Ramakrishna Menon as the fourth of their sixchildren.
His father, a law graduate and a revenue officer working for the Travancore Corporation, died due to typhoid, when Menon was two years old and he was brought up by his mother, with the assistance of her brothers and sisters. His mother took up a job as a clerk at Travancore Corporation to bring up Appu, as he was known at home, and his three elder sisters and one younger brother; another one of his younger brothers died in childhood.
Menon schooling was at
Sreemoolavilasam Government High School, Thiruvananthapuram from where he passed matriculation in 1949 and completed the pre-university course in 1950, when the erstwhile two-year course was realigned as a truncated one-year course. His graduate studies were at
S. D. College,
Alappuzha
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from where he passed with a
BSc
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The first university to admit a student to the degree of Bachelor of Science was the University ...
in
zoology
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in 1953.
He also passed the ''Hindi Visharad'' course conducted by the
Dakshin Bharat Hindi Prachar Sabha
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The organisation was ...
simultaneously with his graduate studies.
He continued his studies at
Government Law College, Ernakulam
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, but shifted to
Government Law College, Thiruvananthapuram
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when the college was restarted in the capital city in 1953 and was the student editor of the college magazine in 1954–55. He passed the law course (
BL) in 1955.
Menon died on 8 May 2019, four days after his 84th birthday, at Thiruvananthapuram, reportedly after battling
liver cancer
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.
Career
Law and civil service
Menon started his career in 1955, as an apprentice to a locally known lawyer, V. Nagappan Nair, and assisted him for thirteenmonths. The next year, in 1956, he registered at the
High Court of Kerala
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, in Ernakulam, as a lawyer and started practice under advocate Poovanpallil Neelakandan Pillai at the district court in Thiruvananthapuram. One year later, Menon appeared for the
Civil Services Examination
The Civil Services Examination (CSE) is a national competitive examination in India conducted by the Union Public Service Commission for recruitment to higher Civil Services of the Government of India, including the Indian Administrative Se ...
and got placed into the
Central Secretariat Service
Central Secretariat Service ( hi, केंद्रीय सचिवालय सेवा; abbreviated as CSS) is the administrative civil service under Group A and Group B of the Central Civil Services of the executive branch of the Govern ...
in New Delhi. On the advice of his teacher and mentor,
A.T. Markose
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, the first director of the
Indian Law Institute
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and the author of ''Judicial Control of Administrative Action in India'',
he took up the job at Central Secretariat in New Delhi.
While working at the secretariat, Menon continued his studies at Campus College located at
Gole Market, affiliated to
Punjab University and secured a post graduate degree (MA) in political science with distinction, in 1960. Afterwards, Menon joined
Faculty of Law, Aligarh Muslim University
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I ...
for further studies in law and passed the master's degree in law (LLM) and, obtaining a
UGC scholarship, continued research on the topic, ''White Collar Crime''. Teaching and doing part-time job as the warden of the ''Sir Syed Hall'' at the university, he completed his research to obtain PhD in 1965, relocated to Delhi, and married Rema Devi, the same year.
He is the first PhD of
Faculty of Law, Aligarh Muslim University
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I ...
.
He was also the first non- Muslim to be appointed warden of a hostel at Aligarh Muslim University.
Academic
In 1968, Menon joined his alma mater,
Faculty of Law, Aligarh Muslim University
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I ...
, as a professor. The subsequent move was again to
University of Delhi
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as a
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in the faculty of law, and later as the professor of the department. During his stint there, he received a
Fulbright Scholarship
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from the
American Council of Learned Societies
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and had the opportunity to present a paper on "Legal Aid" at
Berkeley, California
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. He was a member of the Delhi University panel which liaised with universities from the United States such as
Harvard
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,
Columbia,
Michigan
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and
Yale
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. It was during this period that Menon published his first book, ''Law Relating to Government Control Over Private Enterprise'', co-authored by his colleague, G. Narasimhaswamy, published through Eastern Law Book Company.
Soon, his second book, ''Law and Property'' was published by N. M. Tripathy Co.
He also published an article, co-authored by Clarke Cunningham in the
Michigan Law Review
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History
The ''Michigan Law Review'' was established in 1902, after Gustavus Ohlinger, a student in the Law Department ...
.
Menon, while working in Delhi, is known to have organized the annual conference of the All India Law Teachers Association, in 1972, where he was elected as the Secretary General of the association. He has served as a member of the Committee for Implementing Legal Aid Schemes (CILAS), which was formed under the chairmanship of
V. R. Krishna Iyer
Justice Vaidyanathapuram Rama Krishna Iyer (15 November 1915 – 4 December 2014) was an Indian judge who became a pioneer of judicial activism. He pioneered the legal-aid movement in the country. Before that, he was a state minister and poli ...
, by the
Indira Gandhi
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government, in connection with the
Garibi Hatao
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programme.
He has also served as the secretary of the
Bar Council of India
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Trust. During an interlude, he worked as the principal of the Government Law College, Pondicherry.
When the Bar Council of India decided to establish a new
law school
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Law degrees Argentina
In Argentina, ...
in early 1980s, Menon's services were sought and he is known to have set up the Bangalore-based
National Law School of India University
The National Law School of India University (NLSIU or simply NLS) is a public law school and a National Law University located in Bangalore, Karnataka. It was the first National Law University to be established in India as well as one of the f ...
(NLSIU) with a government grant.
The school was the first in India to use the
Harvard Law School
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Each class ...
's
case study
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method, which later became the mainstream form of
legal education in India Legal education in India generally refers to the education of lawyers before entry into practice. Legal education in India is offered at different levels by the traditional universities and the specialised law universities and schools only after co ...
. Menon worked at NLSIU for twelveyears as the director, moving after the institution gained university status.
In 1998, Menon was invited by the
Government of West Bengal
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to set up the
West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences
The West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences (WBNUJS or NUJS) is a premier public law school in India, also known as Columbia of East, and is an elite National Law University located in Bidhannagar, Kolkata, West Bengal, India. I ...
(NUJS) on the lines of the Bangalore initiative. As the first
vice-chancellor
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In most Commonwealth of Nations, Commonwealth and former Commonwealth n ...
, he is known to have developed its infrastructure and educational curriculum and held the post till 2003, when the
Supreme Court of India
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asked him to take over the responsibility as the first director of the newly formed
National Judicial Academy a training centre for judges
where he worked till his retirement in 2006.
Post-retirement positions
After retiring from active government service in 2006, Menon was appointed by the
Union Government
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as a member of the Commission on Centre-State Relations,
a position he held till 2010.
He also served as the Chairman of the
Indian Statistical Institute
Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) is a higher education and research institute which is recognized as an Institute of National Importance by the 1959 act of the Indian parliament. It grew out of the Statistical Laboratory set up by Prasanta C ...
, Kolkata, and later, as the Chairman of the
Centre for Development Studies, Thiruvananthapuram. He headed the central government committee constituted to draft the National Policy on Criminal Justice and served as the Commission on Equal Opportunity.
He was a member of
Law Commission of India
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and was a member of the Committee on Restructuring of Higher Education in India as well as the Criminal Justice Reform committee.
Later, Madhava Menon headed a Commission constituted as per a
Supreme Court
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order of April 2014 to submit recommendations on government advertisements, on which report was submitted in October 2014.
Menon was a member of the Board of Governors of the International Organization of Judicial Trainers (IOJT),
was an advisor to the
Commonwealth Judicial Education Institute, Canada.
He held the chair of the International Bar Association on Continuing Legal Education based at NLSIU and Menon Institute of Legal Advocacy Training (MILAT),
a non governmental organization founded by him in Thiruvananthapuram.
He was the Chancellor of the
Guru Ghasidas University
Guru Ghasidas Vishwavidyalaya is a central university located in Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh, India. It is one of the largest and oldest institution of higher education of Chhattisgarh. Established under Central Universities Act 2009, No. 25 o ...
,
Bilaspur,
India
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and a member of the
Centre for Development Studies,
Nirma University
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, Ahmedabad, Dr. Ambedkar University of Social Sciences, Delhi,
NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad,
National Law University, Jodhpur
National Law University, Jodhpur (NLUJ) is a public law school and a National Law University established under the National Law University, Jodhpur, Act, 1999 enacted by the Rajasthan State Legislature. The university was established for the ...
,
National Law University Odisha and the School of Law,
Indira Gandhi National Open University
Indira Gandhi National Open University, known as IGNOU, is a Central University located at Maidan Garhi, New Delhi, India. Named after former Prime Minister of India Indira Gandhi, the university was established in 1985 with a budget of 20& ...
.
Menon lived in Thiruvananthapuram with his wife, Rema Devi. The couple had a son, Ramakrishna, an engineer based in Bengaluru.
Awards and recognition
Menon, the president of the
Bar Council of India
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during the period, 1994–98, was conferred the ''Living Legend of Law Award'' by the
International Bar Association
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in 1994.
He was also a recipient of the Rotary Club Award for Vocational Excellence and the ''Plaque of Honour'' from the
Bar Council of India
The Bar Council of India is a statutory body established under the section 4 of Advocates Act 1961 that regulates the legal practice and legal education in India. Its members are elected from amongst the lawyers in India and as such represents ...
.
He received the degree of ''Doctor of Law'' (Honoris Causa) from the
National Law School of India University
The National Law School of India University (NLSIU or simply NLS) is a public law school and a National Law University located in Bangalore, Karnataka. It was the first National Law University to be established in India as well as one of the f ...
in 2001.
He was a Fellow of the
American Council of Learned Societies
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and
Columbia University
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.
The
Government of India
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included Menon, in 2003, in the
Republic Day honours list, for the civilian award of
Padma Shri
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.
He was posthumously awarded Padma Bhushan in 2020 for his contribution in the field of Public Affairs
Legacy
Menon's contributions are known behind the establishment of twolaw schools in India viz.
National Law School of India University
The National Law School of India University (NLSIU or simply NLS) is a public law school and a National Law University located in Bangalore, Karnataka. It was the first National Law University to be established in India as well as one of the f ...
, Bengaluru,
and the
West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences
The West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences (WBNUJS or NUJS) is a premier public law school in India, also known as Columbia of East, and is an elite National Law University located in Bidhannagar, Kolkata, West Bengal, India. I ...
, Kolkata.
He is credited with the conceptualisation of the five-year integrated LLB course, in place of the earlier three-year non-integrated course.
His Socratic method of teaching, involving participation of law students in legal clinics, is considered by many as an innovation.
Menon Institute of Legal Advocacy Training (MILAT), a
non-governmental organisation
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founded by him, is involved in promoting human rights values and judicial reforms and conducting advance training programs for lawyers.
Books, research papers and journals
Menon is the author of several books, research papers and journals. A complete list of papers, books and journals authored by him is given below.
Books
* ''Rule of Law in a Free Society'' (Publisher: Oxford University Press; )
* ''Nehru and Indian Constitutionalism'' (Publisher: Indus Source Books; )
* ''Reflections on Legal and Judicial Education'' (Publisher: Universal Law Publishing; )
* ''A Handbook on Clinical Legal Education'' (Publisher: Eastern Book Company; )
Research papers
* The Transformation of Indian Legal Education- A Blue Paper (Publisher: Harvard Law School
Link
Menon wrote his autobiography, ''The Story of a Law Teacher: Turning Point'',
besides publishing several books, articles and
monograph
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In library cataloging, ''monograph ...
s on a variety of legal subjects.
His notable works include:
* Law and Poverty
* Law and Ethics
* Action Plan on Recommendations of the National Committee on Women Prisoners
* Legal Aid and Legal Education
* Population and Law: Justics for All
* Education and Public Health
* A Training Manual for Police on Human Rights
* Feminism and Law
* Clinical Legal Education
* Law Relating to Government Control Over Private Enterprise
* Documents and Court Opinions on Bhopal Gas Leak Disaster Case
See also
*
National Law School of India University
The National Law School of India University (NLSIU or simply NLS) is a public law school and a National Law University located in Bangalore, Karnataka. It was the first National Law University to be established in India as well as one of the f ...
*
National Judicial Academy
*
West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences
The West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences (WBNUJS or NUJS) is a premier public law school in India, also known as Columbia of East, and is an elite National Law University located in Bidhannagar, Kolkata, West Bengal, India. I ...
*
Indian Statistical Institute
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*
Centre for Development Studies
*
Law Commission of India
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