mala chatterjee
I'm a joint-JD/PhD in Philosophy candidate at New York University, and a fellow at the Engelberg Center for Innovation Law and Policy. I received my JD summa cum laude from NYU School of Law in 2018, where I was a Furman Academic Scholar and Executive Editor of the NYU Law Review. I earned the Maurice Goodman Memorial Prize for outstanding academic achievement and scholarship, the John Bruce Moore Award for highest excellence in Law & Philosophy, and the Bradley Fellowship for scholarly work in Free Speech. I was a Pomeroy Scholar and a Butler Scholar (awarded to the top 10 students after 1L and 2L respectively), and elected to the Order of the Coif. I graduated from Stanford University with a degree in Philosophy and a minor in Symbolic Systems in 2014.
I've worked as a research assistant for professors Jeanne Fromer, Scott Hemphill, Barton Beebe, and Richard Epstein, particularly focusing on trademark and copyright projects. I also conducted independent research with Chris Sprigman and Liam Murphy while in law school. I was a summer associate at the New York office of the law firm Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP in 2017, and at the San Francisco litigation boutique Durie Tangri LLP in 2018. I will clerk for the honorable Judge Robert Sack on the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals in the 2019-2020 term, and will be the Furman Academic Fellow at NYU School of Law in 2020-2021.
My research interests, both legally and philosophically, concern information. This includes intellectual property (copyright, trademark, patent, trade secrets, right of publicity); freedom of speech; defamation; privacy; technology (applied ethics, bioethics, information privacy, artificial intelligence); and aesthetics (art, music, expression). I am writing a dissertation on the philosophical foundations of intellectual property under the supervision of Liam Murphy, Jeremy Waldron, and Sam Scheffler.
Aside from law & philosophy, I love music (psychedelic or repetitive), film, art, stories, dancing, transcendental meditation, and city life.
I've worked as a research assistant for professors Jeanne Fromer, Scott Hemphill, Barton Beebe, and Richard Epstein, particularly focusing on trademark and copyright projects. I also conducted independent research with Chris Sprigman and Liam Murphy while in law school. I was a summer associate at the New York office of the law firm Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP in 2017, and at the San Francisco litigation boutique Durie Tangri LLP in 2018. I will clerk for the honorable Judge Robert Sack on the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals in the 2019-2020 term, and will be the Furman Academic Fellow at NYU School of Law in 2020-2021.
My research interests, both legally and philosophically, concern information. This includes intellectual property (copyright, trademark, patent, trade secrets, right of publicity); freedom of speech; defamation; privacy; technology (applied ethics, bioethics, information privacy, artificial intelligence); and aesthetics (art, music, expression). I am writing a dissertation on the philosophical foundations of intellectual property under the supervision of Liam Murphy, Jeremy Waldron, and Sam Scheffler.
Aside from law & philosophy, I love music (psychedelic or repetitive), film, art, stories, dancing, transcendental meditation, and city life.