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Which professor of law was appointed the first Chancellor of the Damodaram Sanjivayya National Law University, Visakhapatnam (established in 2008 as the Andhra Pradesh University of Law)?

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Which professor of law was appointed the first Chancellor of the Damodaram Sanjivayya National Law University, Visakhapatnam (established in 2008 as the Andhra Pradesh University of Law)?
  1. N.K. Jayakumar
  2. N.R. Madhava Menon
  3. Chandrasekharan Pillai
  4. A. Lakshminath

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Correct answer: D - A. Lakshminath
When the university was set up under the 2008 Act, the Andhra Pradesh government appointed Prof. A. Lakshminath as its first Chancellor. After a 2016 amendment, the Chief Justice of the High Court became the Chancellor. N.R. Madhava Menon is associated with other national law institutions, not as this university's first Chancellor.

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