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A.T. Markose
A.T Markose
Born
Anithottam Thomas Markose

20 June 1920
Muvattupuzha, Travancore Kingdom, Princely State (presently in State of Kerala)
Died15 October 1977(1977-10-15) (aged 56–57)
NationalityIndian
Alma materBanaras Hindu University Lucknow University
Occupation(s)Law Professor, Jurist
Known forPioneering Post Graduate Legal Studies in India, Founder Director of Indian Law Institute & School of Legal Studies, Cochin University

Anithottam Thomas Markose (20 June 1920 – 15 October 1977), was an Indian jurist at the International Labour Organization and Director of Indian Law Institute (1957–1963)[1][2][3][4] and the first editor of an academic law journal of India, Journal of the Indian Law Institute.[5][4] He established the School of Legal Studies in 1962 at Cochin University and was Deputy Judge (1965–1977) at the International Administrative Tribunal of the International Labour Organization[6][4] in Geneva, Switzerland.

Life and education[edit]

A.T. Markose was born on 20 June 1920 to a Syrian Christian Orthodox family in Muvattupuzha, in the South Indian state of Kerala. He was the eldest of 9 siblings. This included his brother A.T. Pathrose who was a politician for the Kerala Congress.[7][4]

Having attended a local Malayalam medium primary school, A.T. Markose went to the St. Johns English High School in Vadakara where K.R. Narayan, later to be President of India, was a contemporary[8] On completing his Intermediate year at the Union Christian College of Aluva in Kerala, in keeping with the remarkable secular ethos of the time, from 1939 to 1944, he did his LLB and LLM at the Banares Hindu University in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh in North India. A.T. Markose proceeded to become the first LLD from the Lucknow University under Professor R.U Singh.[9]

A.T. Markose first started off as a practising lawyer in Ooty with Advocate Mankavil George Matthew.[10] He married the daughter of M.G Matthew, Mary Mathew, in 1946 and they went on to have four daughters. His daughters are Shanta Matthai, Sheila George and Rani Koshy. His third daughter is the UK based economist and academic, Sheri Marina Markose.

Career and achievements[edit]

In 1956, A.T Markose published his magnum opus "The Judicial Control of Administrative Action In India",[11] which was digitized in December 2005 [12] and remains a reference book for LLM in India.[4] The book has been influential in conveying his abiding confidence in the role of the judiciary to be the bulwark against arbitrary power of the executive and the administrative state.[13][14][15]

Upendra Baxi has referred to A.T.Markose (Cochin) as one of the Five Horsemen, who included G.S Sharma (Jaipur), Anandjee (Benares), R.U Singh (Lucknow) and T.K Tripathi (Delhi)) as innovators "who through their diverse labours, brought to a decisive end the Ancien régime of Indian legal education".[16][17]

His legacy of tireless work as Founder Director of the Indian Law Institute (1957–1963) and large number of publications in the areas of Public Law, Administrative Law and Constitutional Law, is acknowledged to have helped the fledgling India democracy to strengthen the rule of law.[18][5]

His international reach in judicial practice and legal studies started with his post doctoral studies as a Research Fellow at the Harvard Law School (1956–1957) [19] and the reconnoitring visits made to the US in the context of setting the agenda for the Indian Law Institute.[5] He was Principal of the Law College in Ernakulam and then worked to establish the postgraduate law degree in what was to become Cochin University.[20] While remaining a Professor and Dean of the Law School in Cochin University, where he was the moving force behind the Legal Studies Centre set up there in 1962, A.T. Markose also pursued an international career. He served as Deputy Judge of the International Administrative Tribunal of the International Labour Organization in Geneva.[6]

Death[edit]

A.T. Markose died in London at the age of 57 on 15 October 1977 on a visit to the UK as a British Council Fellow to research on the final years of the British Privy Council which formerly acted as the High Court of Appeal for the entire British Empire and continues to receive judicial appeals from independent Commonwealth countries.[20]

Legacy[edit]

His legacy is one of intellectual exuberance of a consummate scholar, an inspirational teacher and communicator to his colleagues and students. Many of them have gone to high positions in the legal field and have kept his flame alive in the field of legal scholarship and education. N.R. Madhava Menon,[20] the founder of the National Law Schools of India, and others like George H. Godbois Jr [21][22] have professed a lifelong admiration and affection for their mentor.

A.T. Markose was a polymath with literary interests.[23][20] His special interest in the style of ‘poems in prose’ led to a book in Malayalam titled Kavithakal Gadyathil (Verses in Prose) that was published by A. T. Markose, Kottayam: NBS, 1966.[24] In an interview in 2011, the poet and writer, Jeet Thayil, the nephew of A.T. Markose, said that his uncle introduced him to the poetry of Baudelaire.[25]

Memorial Events[edit]

Since 2011 Cochin University for Science and Technology (CUSAT), School of Legal Studies has been organizing the A.T Markose Memorial Moot Court Competition in honour of their founding professor. In 2020, the A.T. Markose Memorial Moot Court Competition has been jointly organized as the 1st Surana and Surana & CUSAT School of Legal Studies event.[26][27] In 2011, A.T. Markose was posthumously honoured as Distinguished Law Teacher by the Society of Indian Law Firms (SILF) and the Madhava Menon Institute of legal Advocacy.[27]

References[edit]

  1. ^ indcareer.com (4 January 2008). "School of Legal Studies". IndCareer.com. Retrieved 9 August 2020.
  2. ^ "ILS Law College". ILS Law College. Retrieved 9 August 2020.
  3. ^ "4th Edition of the Dr. A.T. Markose Memorial National Moot Court Competition". SCC Blog. 17 November 2014. Retrieved 9 August 2020.
  4. ^ a b c d e "ഡോ. എ.ടി. മർക്കോസിന്റെ ജന്മശതാബ്ദി ഇന്ന്". ManoramaOnline (in Malayalam). Retrieved 9 August 2020.
  5. ^ a b c Krishnan, Jayanth K (November 2005). From the ALI to the ILI: The Efforts to Export an American Legal Institution. VANDERBILT JOURNAL of TRANSNATIONAL LAW. p. 1275.
  6. ^ a b 90 years of contribution of the Administrative Tribunal of the International Labour Organization to the creation of international civil service law (PDF). Geneva Switzerland: International Labor Office Geneva. 2017. p. 204.
  7. ^ "A T Pathrose, who won assembly polls but was never sworn in, passes away". Mathrubhumi. Retrieved 9 August 2020.
  8. ^ "Vadakara St.John's Church". www.syriacchristianity.info. Retrieved 9 August 2020.
  9. ^ ":: University of Lucknow ::". udrc.lkouniv.ac.in. Retrieved 9 August 2020.
  10. ^ REGISTER OF ADMISSIONS TO THE HONOURABLE SOCIETY OF THE MIDDLE TEMPLE (PDF). London, England: THE HONOURABLE SOCIETY OF THE MIDDLE TEMPLE. 1977. pp. Page 78- 2nd May.
  11. ^ MARKOSE, A.T. (1956). Judicial Control of Administrative Action in India: A Study in Methods. Chennai: Madras Law Journal Office. JSTOR 1337434.
  12. ^ Markose, A.T. (1956). Judicial Control of Administrative Action in India: A Study in Methods. Chennai: Madras Law Journal Office.
  13. ^ Chandran, Rakesh (July 2017). "Administrative discretion". International Journal of Academic Research and Development. 2 (4): 135.
  14. ^ Zamir, I. (February 2016). "Latent Errors of Law in Decisions of Administrative Tribunals". Israel Law Review. 1. London: Cambridge University Press: 162–164. doi:10.1017/S0021223700013716. S2CID 195444183.
  15. ^ Abraham, C. M. (1999). Environmental Jurisprudence in India. Leiden, Belgium: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. p. 157.
  16. ^ Professor Pradyumna Kumar Tripathi: A Tribute by Prof. Upendra Baxi Cite as : (2001) 5 SCC (Jour) 1 - Page 1 & 2 http://www.supremecourtcases.com/index2.php?option=com_content&itemid=5&do_pdf=1&id=757
  17. ^ Legal, India (10 May 2019). "Prof Upendra Baxi pays tribute to NR Madhava Menon". India Legal. Retrieved 9 August 2020.
  18. ^ Merillat, H. C. L. (1 October 1959). "The Indian Law Institute". The American Journal of Comparative Law. 8 (4): 519–524. doi:10.2307/837696. ISSN 0002-919X. JSTOR 837696.
  19. ^ Legal Education in a Changing World. Sweden: International Legal Center, New York. 1975. p. 92.
  20. ^ a b c d Madhava Menon, Neelakanta Ramakrishna (2009). Turning Point: The Story of a Law Teacher : Memoirs of Padmashree Prof. N.R. Madhava Menon. New Delhi: Universal Law Publishing. pp. 21–22. ISBN 978-8175348189.
  21. ^ Gadbois, George H. (25 January 2018). Supreme Court of India: The Beginnings. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-909318-2.
  22. ^ McDonald-Norman, Douglas (18 February 2017). "On George H. Gadbois, jr". Law and Other Things. Retrieved 9 August 2020.
  23. ^ "N R Madhava Menon: The transmitter of civilisation". The New Indian Express. Retrieved 9 August 2020.
  24. ^ MALAYALAM TRANSLATIONS OF WORKS BY RUSSIAN AUTHORS (OTHER THAN GORKY*) PUBLISHED IN KERALA BETWEEN 1918 AND 1970 (Pg 258) https://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/bitstream/10603/176953/13/13_appendix.pdf
  25. ^ "Jeet Thayil". Active Voice. 5 November 2011. Retrieved 9 August 2020.
  26. ^ "Cochin University of Science and Technology-News". www.cusat.ac.in. Retrieved 9 August 2020.
  27. ^ a b Ganz, Kian. "Ranbir Singh awarded SILF's law teacher of the year prize; Salgaocar Law School, Symbi's Gudpur, AT Markose recognised". www.legallyindia.com. Retrieved 9 August 2020.
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