N. R. Madhava Menon

Who is N. R. Madhava Menon?

N. R. Madhava Menon is a legal educator from India. He was instrumental in setting up the National Law School of India University in Bangalore, and was its founder-director. He was the founder and vice-chancellor of West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences in Calcutta, run on the NLSIU model. He was the founder Director of the National Judicial Academy, Bhopal, an institute for training judges. Madhava Menon has worked for nearly five decades to improve Indian legal education. He is presently Scholar-In Residence of Faculty of Law, A.M.U.

As a member of the Legal Education Committee of the Bar Council of India and later as the first Secretary of the Bar Council Trust, Menon influenced the shaping of legal education policies.