N R Madhava Menon, MA, LLM, PhD, has completed five decades teaching law and is presently International Bar Association Chair of Continuing Legal Education at the National Law School, Bangalore and Chairman of Menon Institute of Legal Advocacy Training, Trivandrum. He was the founding Vice-Chancellor of two of the leading law schools in India and founding Director of National Judicial Academy. He was also the Chairman of a Committee set up by Government of India to prepare the legal framework for an Equal Opportunity Commission.