Prof. Dr. A. Lakshminath, Chancellor, A. P. University of Law, Visakhapatnam and Pro-Chancellor/Vice-Chancellor, Chanakya National Law University, Patna, former Dean and Registrar, NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad is an academic in the field of law for four decades and has done substantial research in the areas of Constitutional Law, Jurisprudence and Human Rights. He has authored ten books and one hundred articles and edited seven law journals.

He has been actively engaged in research and teaching both at the graduate and postgraduate levels since 1967 and was awarded the Best Researcher Award. He has guided 500 LL.M. dissertations and 345 project reports. He is fellow of Salzburg Seminar, Austria and Fulbright Visiting Professor at the University of Massachusetts, U.S.A. and Visiting Professor at Law School, Banaras Hindu University. He visited Austria, Canada, Germany, Japan, U.K. and U.S.A. on academic assignments and participated in 120 national and international conferences/seminars/workshops. He presided over and delivered keynote addresses in eighty academic meets including four at Boston, Austin (U.S.A.) and Tokyo.

He is Visiting Faculty for institutions of excellence. He was Dean, Faculty of Law, Andhra University and Nagpur University. He was a member of the Boards of Studies in Law in several universities and was Chairman, Boards of Studies in Law in Andhra University and Nagpur University. He has successfully guided fifty seven scholars out of whom, fifty five were awarded Ph.D. degrees in law and two were awarded LL.D. degrees. He was Chief Co-ordinator and Senior Consultant in World Bank, National and State sponsored projects. He was Project Director for the National Human Rights Commission`s Human Rights Literacy Program. He was senior Consultant for Projects on good governance sponsored by Andhra Pradesh State Government.

He is the recipient of the Life Time Achievement Award by International Association of Educators for World Peace, Alabama, USA, 2007 and Dr. S. Radhakrishnan Education Award, 2008 for outstanding contributions in the promotion of technical, vocational and General Education in India.  He is the nominated Governor on the Board of Governors of Doon School, Dehradun. He is President of some voluntary and non-governmental organisations too.

Legal education may Justice education should equip law students for filling different roles in society and discharging various law jobs, the range and scope of which are ever expanding in the modern democratic society e.g. as policy-makers, administrators, lawyers, negotiators, mediators, arbitrators law teachers, industrial entrepreneurs etc. In modern India, it is to be realized that legal education must have breadth, depth and width. It is the crucial function of legal education to produce lawyers with a social vision and mission in a developing country like India. Law has to serve as a vehicle of economic and social change in a developing society and that democracy and respect for law and rule of law will be strengthened in India by promoting legal education and research in law. Lawyers will play a very active role in rebuilding the Indian polity.

The National Knowledge Commission while recognizing legal education as an important constituent of professional education emphasized that the vision should be to provide justice-oriented education essential to the realization of values enshrined in the Indian Constitution. Legal education must prepare professionals equipped to meet the new challenges and dimensions of internationalization, where the nature and organization of law and legal practice are undergoing a paradigm shift. It has also emphasized the need for original and path breaking legal research to create new legal knowledge and ideas that will help meet these new challenges in a manner responsive to the needs of the country and ideals and goals of our Constitution.

Keeping the above mentioned goals and objectives the Government of Bihar has established the Chanakya National Law University, Patna to impart legal/Justice education to the deprived, depraved and the indigent.