Career
When the Bar Council of India proposed building a new law school in early 1980s, Dr. Menon volunteered for the job and set up the Bangalore-based National Law School of India University with a USD $150,000 government grant. The school was the first in India to use the Harvard Law School's case study method, which later became the mainstream form of legal education in India. After a 10-year tenure at the university, he relinquished the job.
Dr. Menon was invited by the West Bengal Government to set up the West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences (NUJS) on the lines of the Bangalore initiative. As the first vice-chancellor, he developed its infrastructure, educational curriculum and its reputation within the academic/student community. In particular, he allowed the faculty great creative freedom in teaching, which has resulted in law graduates with a broad knowledge of many disciplines.
Before Dr. Menon could complete his term as the vice-chancellor of NUJS in West Bengal, the Supreme Court of India asked him to take over as the first Director of the newly established National Judicial Academy for training judges.
Dr. Menon has also been:
- a teacher at AMU law faculty,(ALIGARH)
- a member of the Law Commission of India
- chairman of the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata
- chairman of the Centre for Development Studies, Trivandrum
- a member of several expert committees including:
- Legal Aid Committee(1973)
- The Civil Services Examination Reform Committee (2000–2001)
- Criminal Justice Reform (2002–2003), appointed by the Government of India
As of 2008, he was serving on the Board of Governors of the International Organization of Judicial Trainers (IOJT) and is adviser to the Commonwealth Judicial Education Institute (Canada).
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