Government Law College, Ernakulam is formerly known as His Highness Maharajas Law College. The Government Law College Ernakulam is first Law College in Kerala founded in 1874 in the heart of Metropolitan city Kochi. Those law classes continued as such till 1894 when the institution was re organised entirely on a different footing.The college was raised to the status of an independent college under the designation of His Highness the Maharajah`s Law College, Thiruvananthapuram with W.T.A.
The history of Government Law College, Ernakulam[3] goes back to 1874 when legal education set its root in Kerala by the Maharajah of Travancore sanctioning the Organisation of a Law Class in connection with His Highness College Thiruvanathapuram (present University College Trivandrum). This was with a view to enable candidates from Travancore to present themselves for the law examination of Madras University.Read More…….