Mala is a lawyer, philosopher, writer, & associate professor at Columbia Law School. She is presently a PhD candidate in Philosophy at NYU and a Furman Fellow at NYU School of Law, and has also been a fellow at NYU's Engelberg Center for Innovation Law and Policy and Yale Law School's Information Society Project. Mala received her JD summa cum laude at NYU Law in 2018 as a Furman Academic Scholar, and her BA in Philosophy and Symbolic Systems from Stanford in 2014.
Mala's work in law & philosophy is on information. She explores the philosophical questions surrounding legal systems structuring our relationships with and rights in information, broadly construed, including questions around intellectual property, technology, defamation, privacy, speech, and aesthetics. Mala wrote her philosophy PhD thesis on the philosophical foundations of copyright law under the advisement of Liam Murphy, Jeremy Waldron, and Sam Scheffler, and is now working on a book proposal for the monograph. Her other scholarship has appeared in the peer-reviewed Journal of Legal Analysis at Harvard Law School, the Columbia Law Review, the UC Irvine Law Review, and the NYU Law Review, and she has presented it at Berkeley, Stanford, Yale, Columbia, NYU, University of Pennsylvania, and more. Mala also writes non-academic and creative work.
Mala’s other loves are music (psychedelic | repetitive | shoegazing | droning); film (David Lynch | Paul Thomas Anderson); dancing (techno | odissi); books (meta | post-modern | absurd); art (surreal | conceptual | post-impressionist); mind-bending science fiction; mind-bending things in general; transcendental meditation; game nights; her butterscotch telecaster; serene deserts; outer space; and life in New York City.
Mala's work in law & philosophy is on information. She explores the philosophical questions surrounding legal systems structuring our relationships with and rights in information, broadly construed, including questions around intellectual property, technology, defamation, privacy, speech, and aesthetics. Mala wrote her philosophy PhD thesis on the philosophical foundations of copyright law under the advisement of Liam Murphy, Jeremy Waldron, and Sam Scheffler, and is now working on a book proposal for the monograph. Her other scholarship has appeared in the peer-reviewed Journal of Legal Analysis at Harvard Law School, the Columbia Law Review, the UC Irvine Law Review, and the NYU Law Review, and she has presented it at Berkeley, Stanford, Yale, Columbia, NYU, University of Pennsylvania, and more. Mala also writes non-academic and creative work.
Mala’s other loves are music (psychedelic | repetitive | shoegazing | droning); film (David Lynch | Paul Thomas Anderson); dancing (techno | odissi); books (meta | post-modern | absurd); art (surreal | conceptual | post-impressionist); mind-bending science fiction; mind-bending things in general; transcendental meditation; game nights; her butterscotch telecaster; serene deserts; outer space; and life in New York City.