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{{short description|Indian lawyer}}

{{Use Indian English|date=July 2015}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2020}}
{{Infobox person
| name = A.T. Markose
| image = A.T Markose.jpg
| caption = A.T Markose
| birth_name = Anithottam Thomas Markose
| birth_date = 20 June 1920
| birth_place = [[Muvattupuzha]], [[Travancore Kingdom]], Princely State (presently in State of [[Kerala]])
| death_date = {{death date and age|1977|10|15|1920|df=y}}
| occupation = Law Professor, Jurist
| known for = Pioneering Post Graduate Legal Studies in India, Founder Director of Indian Law Institute & School of Legal Studies, Cochin
University
| nationality = Indian
| alma_mater = [[Banaras Hindu University]]
[[Lucknow University]]
}}

'''Anithottam Thomas Markose''' (20 June 1920 – 15 October 1977), was an Indian jurist at the [[International Labour Organization]] and a pioneering figure in legal studies in India. He was the Founder Director of Indian Law Institute (1957–1963)<ref>{{Cite web|last=indcareer.com|date=2008-01-04|title=School of Legal Studies|url=https://www.indcareer.com/kerala/cochin/school-legal-studies|access-date=2020-08-09|website=IndCareer.com|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=ILS Law College|url=https://ilslaw.edu/about-college/|access-date=2020-08-09|website=ILS Law College|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Editor|date=2014-11-17|title=4th Edition of the Dr. A.T. Markose Memorial National Moot Court Competition|url=https://www.scconline.com/blog/post/2014/11/17/4th-edition-of-the-dr-a-t-markose-memorial-national-moot-court-competition/|access-date=2020-08-09|website=SCC Blog|language=en-US}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=ഡോ. എ.ടി. മർക്കോസിന്റെ ജന്മശതാബ്ദി ഇന്ന്|url=https://www.manoramaonline.com/education/education-news/2020/06/20/dr-a-t-markose-centenary-celebration.html|access-date=2020-08-09|website=ManoramaOnline|language=ml}}</ref> and the first editor of an academic law journal of India, Journal of the Indian Law Institute.<ref name=":1">{{Cite book|last=Krishnan|first=Jayanth K|url=https://www.repository.law.indiana.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1346&context=facpub|title=From the ALI to the ILI: The Efforts to Export an American Legal Institution|publisher=VANDERBILT JOURNAL of TRANSNATIONAL LAW|date=November 2005|pages=1275}}</ref><ref name=":0" /> 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<ref name=":2">{{Cite book|url=https://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/---dgreports/---trib/documents/meetingdocument/wcms_613944.pdf|title=90 years of contribution of the Administrative Tribunal of the International Labour Organization to the creation of international civil service law|publisher=International Labor Office Geneva|year=2017|location=Geneva Switzerland|pages=204}}</ref><ref name=":0" /> in Geneva, Switzerland.

== Life and education ==
A.T. Markose was born on 20 June 1920 to a [[Saint Thomas Christians|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|A.T. Pathrose]] who was a politician for the Kerala Congress.<ref>{{Cite web|title=A T Pathrose, who won assembly polls but was never sworn in, passes away|url=https://english.mathrubhumi.com/news/kerala/a-t-pathrose-who-won-assembly-polls-but-was-never-sworn-in-passes-away-1.4765942|access-date=2020-08-09|website=Mathrubhumi|language=en}}</ref><ref name=":0" />

Having attended a local Malayalam medium primary school, A.T. Markose went to the St. Johns English High School in Vadakara where [[K. R. Narayanan|K.R. Narayan]] , later to be President of India, was a contemporary<ref>{{Cite web|title=Vadakara St.John's Church|url=http://www.syriacchristianity.info/ch/VadakaraStJohns.htm|access-date=2020-08-09|website=www.syriacchristianity.info}}</ref> On completing his Intermediate year at the [[Union Christian College, Aluva|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 [[Banaras Hindu University|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.<ref>{{Cite web|title=:: University of Lucknow ::|url=https://udrc.lkouniv.ac.in/Department/DepartmentDetail/History?dept=30|access-date=2020-08-09|website=udrc.lkouniv.ac.in}}</ref>

A.T. Markose first started off as a practising lawyer in [[Ooty]] with Advocate Mankavil George Matthew.<ref>{{Cite book|url=http://archive.middletemple.org.uk/Shared%20Documents/MTAR/MTAR%204%20-%201945%20-%201953.pdf|title=REGISTER OF ADMISSIONS TO THE HONOURABLE SOCIETY OF THE MIDDLE TEMPLE|publisher=THE HONOURABLE SOCIETY OF THE MIDDLE TEMPLE|year=1977|location=London, England|pages=Page 78- 2nd May}}</ref> 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 Markose|Sheri Marina Markose]].

== Career and Achievements ==
In 1956, A.T Markose published his magnum opus "The Judicial Control of Administrative Action In India",<ref>{{Cite book|last=MARKOSE|first=A.T.|title=Judicial Control of Administrative Action in India: A Study in Methods|publisher=Madras Law Journal Office|year=1956|location=Chennai|jstor=1337434}}</ref> which was digitized in December 2005 <ref>{{Cite book|last=Markose|first=A.T.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xoEVrjTjO78C|title=Judicial Control of Administrative Action in India: A Study in Methods|publisher=Madras Law Journal Office|year=1956|location=Chennai}}</ref> and remains a reference book for LLM in India.<ref name=":0" /> 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.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Chandran|first=Rakesh|date=July 2017|title=Administrative discretion|url=http://www.academicjournal.in/archives/2017/vol2/issue4/2-4-32|journal=International Journal of Academic Research and Development|volume= 2 , Issue 4|pages=135}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|title=Latent Errors of Law in Decisions of Administrative Tribunals|publisher=Cambridge University Press|date=February 2016|location=London|pages=162–164|doi=10.1017/S0021223700013716|last1=Zamir|first1=I.|journal=Israel Law Review|volume=1}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Abraham|first=C. M.|title=Environmental Jurisprudence in India|publisher=Martinus Nijhoff Publishers|year=1999|location=Leiden, Belgium|pages=157}}</ref>

[[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".<ref>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</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Legal|first=India|date=2019-05-10|title=Prof Upendra Baxi pays tribute to NR Madhava Menon|url=https://www.indialegallive.com/obituary/prof-upendra-baxi-pays-tribute-nr-madhava-menon|access-date=2020-08-09|website=India Legal|language=en-US}}</ref>

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.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Merillat|first=H. C. L.|date=1959-10-01|title=The Indian Law Institute|url=https://academic.oup.com/ajcl/article/8/4/519/2585806|journal=The American Journal of Comparative Law|language=en|volume=8|issue=4|pages=519–524|doi=10.2307/837696|jstor=837696|issn=0002-919X}}</ref><ref name=":1" />

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) <ref>{{Cite book|url=http://nai.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:275991/FULLTEXT01.pdf%3E|title=Legal Education in a Changing World|publisher=International Legal Center, New York|year=1975|location=Sweden|pages=92}}</ref> and the reconnoitring visits made to the US in the context of setting the agenda for the Indian Law Institute.<ref name=":1" /> 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.<ref name=":3">{{Cite book|last=Madhava Menon|first=Neelakanta Ramakrishna|title=Turning Point: The Story of a Law Teacher : Memoirs of Padmashree Prof. N.R. Madhava Menon|publisher=Universal Law Publishing|year=2009|isbn=978-8175348189|location=New Delhi|pages=21–22}}</ref> 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.<ref name=":2" />

== Death ==
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 [[Privy Council of the United Kingdom|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.<ref name=":3" />

== Legacy ==
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|N.R. Madhava Menon]],<ref name=":3" /> the founder of the National Law Schools of India,and others like George H. Godbois Jr <ref>{{Cite book|last=Gadbois|first=George H.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=W49HDwAAQBAJ&q=Professor+A.T+Markose&pg=PT9|title=Supreme Court of India: The Beginnings|date=2018-01-25|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-909318-2|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=McDonald-Norman|first=Douglas|date=2017-02-18|title=On George H. Gadbois, jr|url=https://lawandotherthings.com/2017/02/on-george-h-gadbois-jr/|access-date=2020-08-09|website=Law and Other Things|language=en-GB}}</ref> have professed a lifelong admiration and affection for their mentor.

A.T. Markose was a polymath with literary interests.<ref>{{Cite web|title=N R Madhava Menon: The transmitter of civilisation|url=https://www.newindianexpress.com/opinions/columns/t-j-s-george/2019/may/12/n-r-madhava-menon-the-transmitter-of-civilisation-1975749.html|access-date=2020-08-09|website=The New Indian Express}}</ref><ref name=":3" /> 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.<ref>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</ref> 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.<ref>{{Cite web|last=ap|first=Author|title=Jeet Thayil|url=https://anniepaul.net/tag/jeet-thayil/|access-date=2020-08-09|website=Active Voice|language=en}}</ref>

== Memorial Events ==
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.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Cochin University of Science and Technology-News|url=https://www.cusat.ac.in/view_news.php?id=2623|access-date=2020-08-09|website=www.cusat.ac.in}}</ref><ref name=":4">{{Cite web|last=Ganz|first=Kian|title=Ranbir Singh awarded SILF's law teacher of the year prize; Salgaocar Law School, Symbi's Gudpur, AT Markose recognised|url=https://www.legallyindia.com/lawschools/ranbir-singh-awarded-silfs-law-teacher-of-the-year-prize-salgaocar-law-school-symbis-gudpur-at-markose-recognised-20110826-2301|access-date=2020-08-09|website=www.legallyindia.com|language=en-gb}}</ref> 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.<ref name=":4" />

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