Mr Akshat Agrawal

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Mr Akshat Agrawal

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Education

PhD Candidate in Law (Girton College, University of Cambridge)

  • Awarded the Squire Postgraduate Studentship in Law, 2025-26, 2026-27
  • Awarded the Bill Cornish Scholarship for Intellectual Property Law, 2026-27.

LLM Master of Law (University of California, Berkeley)

  • Law and Technology Certificate
  • Pro Bono Honors
  • Thesis - Resolving Copyright's Distortionary Effects published in the Berkeley Technology Law Journal, Vol. 38 Issue 4, awarded Google's Global Award for the Most Inclusive Copyright Thesis in 2022-2023. Supervisors- Prof. Talha Syed and Oren Bracha

BA LLB (Hons.) Bachelors of Law (Jindal Global Law School, OP Jindal Global University)

  • Savitri Jindal Merit Studentship
  • World Finalist, Oxford Intellectual Property Moot Court Competition (2018)
  • World Finalist, Nelson Mandela UN World Human Rights Moot Court Competition (2019)
  • Managing Editor, Jindal International and Comparative Law Review.

Professional Experience:

  • Founder and Counsel, AASA Chambers [IP Counsel] (2025- Present)
  • Senior Associate, Saikrishna and Associates (2024-2025)
  • Fellow, Wikimedia Foundation and Institute for Intellectual Property and Social Justice (2023-24)
  • Law Clerk and Researcher, Justice Prathiba M. Singh, Delhi High Court (2020-2021)
  • Research Assistant, Prof. Molly S. Van Houweling, University of California Berkeley (2022-23)
  • Teaching Assistant to Prof. Vishwas M. Deviah (Music and Copyrights) and Prof. Manveen Singh (IP Law) - Jindal Global Law School (2019-20)

Research

History of Copyright, Intellectual Property, AI Regulation, Information Law, Legal Theory, Law and Political Economy, Legal History

Supervisor(s): Prof. Lionel Bently (Supervisor) and Prof. Zoe Adams (Academic Advisor)

Research centres: Cambridge Forum for Legal and Political Philosophy (CFLPP); Cambridge Legal Theory Discussion Group (CLTDG); Cambridge Private Law Centre (CPLC); Centre for English Legal History (CELH); Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law (CIPIL)