Akshat Agrawal is the Founder of AASA Chambers and a PhD Candidate at the University of Cambridge, Faculty of Law, where his doctoral research on copyright reform is supervised by Professor Lionel Bently. He holds an LLM from the University of California, Berkeley, where his thesis examining copyright’s distortionary effects received Google’s Global Award for the Most Inclusive Copyright Thesis (2023) and was subsequently published in the Berkeley Technology Law Journal. He was also a Wikimedia–IIPSJ Fellow on the Race and IP Project (2023–24).
Akshat’s research and legal practice lie at the intersection of intellectual property, technology law, and public policy. He has worked with the Additional Solicitor General of India, senior advocates at the Delhi High Court, and served as a law researcher to a Judge of the Delhi High Court. Prior to founding AASA Chambers, he was a Senior Associate at Saikrishnaa & Associates, a leading firm specialising in intellectual property and new media law.
At The Dialogue, he will serve as a Visiting Fellow