From academics to adjudications: The Madras Law College building 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. NL Rajah 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.

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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 1850s, John Bruce Norton, a nephew of George Norton, was appointed as its first Professor of Law in 1855. Till about 1884, he was the only Professor of Law for the college.

Subsequently, owing to the initiatives of HB Grigg, the director of public institutions whose efforts were ably supported by Justice T Muthusamy lyer, the Law College came to be established as an independent institution in 1891.

However, till the magnificent structure

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