Kochi, CJI Surya Kant on Saturday paid tribute to eminent legal educationist Prof N R Madhava Menon and presented the second Memorial ‘Tribute of Honour’ Award, instituted in his memory, to Attorney General of India R Venkataramani.
He subsequently established the West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences in Kolkata and the National Judicial Academy in Bhopal. Menon had taken over as the institution’s principal in the same year. Menon founded the National Law School of India University in Bengaluru in 1986 and pioneered the five-year integrated LLB programme, which transformed the landscape of legal education in the country, he said. Speaking about the award recipient, Kant said Venkataramani had joined Government Law College in Pondicherry in 1974, where he came under Menon’s mentorship.
Describing their association as a lasting teacher-student bond, the CJI said Venkataramani had carried his mentor’s values throughout his nearly five-decade-long career at the Bar.
