Education CV
Education
PhD Candidate in Law (Girton College, University of Cambridge)
- Awarded the Squire Postgraduate Studentship in Law
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)
Fields of research
History of Copyright, Intellectual Property, AI Regulation, Information Law, Legal Theory, Law and Political Economy, Legal History
Research centres and interest groups
Supervisors
Prof. Lionel Bently (Supervisor) and Prof. Zoe Adams (Academic Advisor)
Representative Publications
- Resolving Copyright’s Distortionary Effects, Note, (2023) 38 (4) Berkeley Technology Law Journal 1207. Presented at the Works in Progress Intellectual Property Scholars Conference, Suffolk University, Boston and the Race+IP’23 conference hosted by the University of Pittsburgh School of Law.
- A Human Enablement Theory of Copyright, 20(1) Indian Journal of Law and Technology (2025) - Upcoming
- IP as an end in itself: The Case of the COVID Waiver, published in the Indian Journal of IP Law, NALSAR, available at < https://ijipl.nalsar.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/5.-Akshat-Agrawal.... Presented at 7th IP Mosaic Conference 2021, IPIRA 2022, and ATRIP Global Conference 2022. Upcoming in an adapted form in the NALSAR IP Law Review.
- Indian Copyright Law and Generative AI, Akshat Agrawal and Sneha Jain, SSRN (published as blog series on Medianama, IPRMENT Law, Law Pickle, Mondaq as well as Lexology) <https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5028835?>
- Right to Publicity: 31 years since Madow’s verdict but show must go on, 3 part posts on Spicy IP and Medianama, available at < https://spicyip.com/2024/11/part-i-the-right-to-publicity-31-yearssince-...
- Interpreting Performers Rights in the Indian Copyright Act to appropriately provide for Singers Rights, 26(1) Journal of Intellectual Property Rights, 5-13 (2021).
- Director’s Authorship under the Indian Copyright Act: An [Un]Indian Approach, Vol IV Issue 1 Journal of Intellectual Property Studies, NLU Jodhpur, 40-56 (2021).
- Who Watches the Plagiarism Police? The Contemporary Law Forum (2020), Co-authored with Prof. Brian L. Frye.
- A pandemic busting drug will come at a price, here’s how differential pricing ensures access, Economic Times Prime (May 7, 2020).
- How the COVID-19 pandemic is rekindling the debate on Access to Content, The Wire (April 2, 2020).
- Who gets paid for the music you listen to? Revamping Music and Copyrights (2-part), Spicy IP (December 9, 2020).
- Copyright and Classical Music: Not the Best Fusion, Spicy IP (November 25, 2022).
Start Date
Oct 2025
Selected publications
Articles
'A Human Enablement Theory of Copyright' (2025) 20(1) IJLT
Citation:
(2025) 20(1) IJLT
Published: Forthcoming
'Resolving Copyright's Distortionary Effects' (2024) 38(4) BTLJ 1207
Citation:
(2024) 38(4) BTLJ 1207
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.15779/Z38DR2P978
Published: Apr 2024
'IP as an end in itself: The Case of the COVID Waiver'
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.61238/ijipl.2023v1305
Published: Aug 2023
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