# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/n-r-madhava-menon
# Generated: 2026-08-15T06:45:36.565Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/n-r-madhava-menon"
name: "N. R. Madhava Menon"
slug: "n-r-madhava-menon"
description: "Neelakanta Ramakrishna Madhava Menon 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 system and first director of the National Law School of India University (NLSIU) and the National Judicial Academy, Bhopal and the founder-vice-chancellor of the West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences (NUJS). He has also served as Chairman of Indian Statistical Institute from 2002 to 2003."
tagline: "Indian legal scholar"
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gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "IN"
category:
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profileType:
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  slug: "public-official"
birthDate: "1935-05-04"
deathDate: "2019-05-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump