page_title: Government Law College, Ernakulam
section_title: Notable alumni
hierarchical_section_title: Government Law College, Ernakulam / Notable alumni
caption_attribution_description: English: Konakuppakatil Gopinathan Balakrishnan, Chief Justice of India, during an official visit in Brasília, Brazil.
context_page_description: The Government Law College, Ernakulam is a prestigious institution for undergraduate, graduate and post-graduate legal education in Kochi, Kerala, India. Founded in 1874, it is the first law college in the state of Kerala and also one of the oldest law colleges in India. The college is affiliated to the Mahatma Gandhi University in Kottayam. The College is a recognised Research Centre in Law under the Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam since 2010. The college has a prestigious list of alumni including K.G. Balakrishnan, Mammootty, A K Antony and Oommen Chandy. It is popularly known as Ernakulam Law College or Maharajas Law College.
context_section_description: Justice K. G. Balakrishnan, Former Chief Justice of India
  Justice K. M. Joseph, Judge, Supreme Court of India
  Justice J. B. Koshy
  Justice K Narayana Kurup, former Chief Justice of Madras and Kerala high court
  Justice KK Narendran
  Justice PS Gopinathan
  Justice P Gopinath
  Justice P Bavadasan
  Justice M R Anitha
  Justice C.K. Abdul Rahim
  Justice A.M. Shaffique
  Justice P. V. Asha
  Justice M Ramachandran
  Justice Anu Sivaraman, Judge, Kerala High Court
  Justice Sunil Thomas
  Justice A.K. Jayasankaran Nambiar, Judge, Kerala High Court
  Justice C N Ramachandran Nair
  Justice B. Sudheendra Kumar, Judge, Kerala High Court
  Justice Babu Mathew P. Joseph, Former Judge, High Court of Kerala
  Justice P. N. Ravindran, Former Judge, High Court of Kerala
  Justice P. R. Ramachandra Menon, Chief Justice, High Court of Chhattisgarh
  Justice Narayana Pisharadi R, Judge, High Court of Kerala
  Justice Devan Ramachandran, Judge, High Court of Kerala
  Justice VK Mohanan
  Justice V. Shircy
  Justice Shaji P. Chaly, Judge of Kerala High Court
  Justice NK Balakrishnan
  Justice Mary Joseph
  Justice N. Nagaresh, Judge, High Court of Kerala
  Justice Bechu Kurian Thomas, Judge, High Court of Kerala
   Justice M. R. Anitha, Judge, High Court of Kerala
   Justice Haripal, Judge, High Court of Kerala
  Varkala Radhakrishnan, former MP and Speaker of KLA
  N. R. Madhava Menon
  Simon Britto Rodrigues, Former nominated Member of the Kerala Legislative Assembly
  A K Antony, Senior Leader of INC, former Union Defence Minister and Chief Minister
  E. Chandrasekharan Nair, Senior Leader of CPI, former Food and Civil Supplies Minister
  K. R. Gowri Amma
  Vayalar Ravi, former Union Cabinet Minister
  Thomas Kallampally
  M. N. Vijayan, Writer
  P. C. George MLA
  Mammootty
  Oommen Chandy, former Chief Minister of Kerala
  Anto Antony MP
  P Rajeev
  P. T. Thomas MLA
  Jose Thettayil
  A Jayashankar
  A. C. Jose, former Speaker of Kerala Legislative Assembly
  Therambil Ramakrishnan, former Speaker of KLA
  K. P. Dandapani, former Advocate General of Kerala
  Baburaj (actor)
  Gayathri D Naik, Commonwealth Scholar in Law.
caption: K. G. Balakrishnan
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