Sir L.A. Shah Law College is a heritage Law college of Ahmedabad, in the State of Gujarat. This college has gained the approval of Bar Council of India (BCI), New Delhi. It offers three years undergraduate course (LL.B. or Bachelor of Law) and LL.M. degree in legal education affiliated to the Gujarat University. [1]
Gujarat Law Society established the college on 20 June 1927. It is the fourth oldest Law College to be affiliated to the University of Bombay. Initially the University of Bombay recognised the college in 1935. Thereafter Gujarat University gave the affiliation in 1950. [2]
Chunilal Karsandas Thakker is a retired judge of the Supreme Court of India.
R. M. Lodha is a former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of India. Before being elevated to the Supreme Court, he served as the chief justice of Patna High Court. He has also served as a judge in Rajasthan High Court and Bombay High Court. On 14 July 2015, the Supreme Court committee headed by RM Lodha suspended the owners of Rajasthan Royals and Chennai Super Kings from the Indian Premier League cricket tournament for a period of two years for alleged involvement in betting.
Mohammad Hidayatullah OBE was the 11th Chief Justice of India serving from 25 February 1968 to 16 December 1970, and the sixth vice president of India, serving from 31 August 1979 to 30 August 1984. He had also served as the acting president of India from 20 July 1969 to 24 August 1969 and from 6 October 1982 to 31 October 1982 and from 25 July 1983 to 25 July 1983 and from 25 July 1984 to 25 July 1984. He is regarded as an eminent jurist, scholar, educationist, author and linguist.
Harilal Jekisundas Kania was the first Chief Justice of India. He served as the Chief Justice of India from 1950 to 1951. He died while serving in office in 1951.
Prafullachandra Natwarlal Bhagwati was the 17th Chief Justice of India, serving from 12 July 1985 until his retirement on 20 December 1986. He introduced the concepts of public interest litigation and absolute liability in India, and for this reason is held, along with Justice V. R. Krishna Iyer, to be a pioneer of judicial activism in the country. He is the longest-served supreme court judge in India.
Government Law College, Thiruvananthapuram also known as GLC Trivandrum is one of the institutions imparting graduate and post graduate legal education in India. Affiliated to the University of Kerala, it is the second law college in Kerala and one of the oldest law colleges in India. It was established in 1875 by the then Maharajah of the erstwhile Princely State of Travancore. Notable alumni of the college including Judges of Supreme Court of India such as Justice Fathima Beevi, judges of High Courts, politicians, and academicians such as N. R. Madhava Menon.
Raja Lakhamgouda Law College is an institution for legal education situated in Belgaum, Karnataka, India. It was established in 1939 by the Karnataka Law Society, and is one of the oldest Indian Law Colleges. The college is named after Raja Lakhamgouda Sirdesai, the head of the former princely state of Vantamuri who has served as a mentor and donor to the school.
Siraj Mehfuz Daud, or S.M. Daud was a lawyer who became a judge in the high court of Bombay, India. After retirement he participated in several tribunals investigating human rights problems.
Sunderlal Trikamlal Desai was the 1st Chief Justice of Gujarat, serving from 1 May 1960 until his retirement on 25 January 1961. He later practiced as senior counsel in the Supreme Court of India till 1988. In 1968, he was appointed Treasurer for the Indian Commission of Jurists, a member of the International Commission of Jurists where he was instrumental in submitting the report on Right to Freedom of Movement before the ICJ.
Anil Ramesh Dave is a former judge at the Supreme Court of India and the current Executive-Chairman of the National Legal Services Authority. Before being elevated to the Supreme Court, he was chief justice of the Andhra Pradesh High Court and Bombay High Court.
Rekha Manharlal Doshit was the Chief Justice of Patna High Court, Patna in the Indian state of Bihar.
The Govind Ramnath Kare College of Law, popularly known as the G.R. Kare College of Law, and also as the Kare Law College, is a law college located at Comba in Margao, Goa.
Maharashtra National Law University Nagpur (MNLU) is a National Law University and a public law school established by the government through the Maharashtra National Law University Act. The university is the 19th National Law University established in India and is located in the Orange City of Nagpur, Maharashtra. The Chief Justice of India serves as the Head of the institution.
The Department of Law, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, West Bengal, formerly University College of Law, is a faculty in the University of Calcutta, founded in 1909, colloquially referred to as Hazra Law College, which offers undergraduate, postgraduate, doctorate and post doctorate courses. The Faculty oversees fifteen affiliated Law schools of the University.
Justice Ramanlal Maneklal Kantawala was the Chief Justice of the Bombay High Court from 1972 to 1978. He acted as the Governor of Maharashtra state twice in 1976 and 1977.
Nomanbhai Mahmedbhai Miabhoy was an Indian judge and Chief Justice of the Gujarat High Court.
Manharlal Pranlal Thakkar or M. P. Thakkar was an Indian judge who was a Justice of the Supreme Court of India, and Chairman of Twelfth Law Commission of India.
Mukeshkumar Rasikbhai Shah is a former judge of the Supreme Court of India, former chief justice of the Patna High Court and a former judge of Gujarat High Court.
Manharlal Bhikhalal Shah is an Indian Judge and former Justice of the Supreme Court of India.