Professor N R Madhava Menon has been teaching Law for over five decades in Universities at Aligarh, Delhi, Pondicherry, Bangalore, Kolkata and Bhopal in India and in Washington and Columbia Universities in the United States. He has held several positions including Head, Campus Law Centre, Delhi University, Principal, Ambedkar Government Law College, Pondicherry, Founder Director of National Law School, Bangalore, Founder Vice-Chancellor of National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata and Founder Director of National Judicial Academy, Bhopal. He has been the Chairman of the Board of Management of the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, Centre for Development Studies, Trivandrum and the Commonwealth Legal Education Association, London. He has served in several Committees and Commissions of the Government of India including the Commission on Centre-State Relations, the Committee on Criminal Justice Reform and the Committee on Restructuring Higher Education. He was honoured with the Living Legend of Law Award by the International Bar Association in 1994 and the Padmashree in 2003 for his contribution to public service.