Published on : 05 Nov 2025, 11:28 am 5 min read

On October 26, 2025, an academic institution of once enviable repute donned the robes of a constitutional adjudicator.

Dr Ambedkar Government Law College, formerly known as the Madras Law College, recently ceded its academic space to the judicial realm of the Madras High Court to accommodate 6 additional court halls and the attendant facilities.

The building has an interesting lore to be proud of. Legal education in the Madras Presidency has its origin in the informal law classes given by George Norton, who was then the Advocate General of Madras State (1827-1853). These were more in the nature of conversations on legal subjects rather than formal regular classes. Later, when the Presidency College was established in the early 1850

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