Legal Luminary Padma Shri Professor (Dr.) N.R. Madhava Menon
Legal Era|June -July 2019

Legal luminary and Padma Shri Prof. (Dr.) Neelakanta Ramakrishna Madhava Menon passed away in the early hours of Wednesday, 8 May 2019, due to liver cancer.

Legal Luminary Padma Shri Professor (Dr.) N.R. Madhava Menon
He was 84. His passing away marks the end of an era where Prof. Menon’s activities ranged from practice of law to founding of legal institutions and earning scholarships from The American Council of Learned Societies. He was a member of the Delhi University panel which liaised with universities from the United States such as Harvard, Columbia, Michigan and Yale.

Wonder Years

Prof. (Dr.) Madhava Menon was born on 4 May, 1935 in a Nair family to Bhavani Amma and Ramakrishna Menon, his father who was a law graduate and a revenue officer for Travancore Corporation. His father passed away due to typhoid when he was two years old. He had three sisters who were elder to him and one younger brother. He had one more brother who passed away early after his birth.

Humble and Humane

Prof. (Dr.) Madhava Menon will be remembered as a humble and dedicated teacher, an ideal parent and a caring husband. Senior advocate R. Venkataramani at Supreme Court remembers the sweep of his intellect and his deep engaging mind that revealed his burning desire to inject new meanings and directions to legal education when she was a student in the Government Law College at Puducherry in 1974.

Stellar Educational Achievements

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