mala is a lawyer, philosopher, writer, & academic. She is a Furman Fellow at NYU School of Law and a PhD candidate in Philosophy at NYU. She is also 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 a bachelors degree 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 is writing a dissertation on the philosophical foundations of intellectual property under the supervision of Liam Murphy, Jeremy Waldron, and Sam Scheffler. Her other scholarship has appeared or is forthcoming 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, 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, the indian classical dance form); books (absurd | meta | post-modern); art (surreal | conceptual | post-impressionist); mind-bending science fiction; mind-bending things in general; transcendental meditation; game nights; her butterscotch telecaster; and city life.
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 is writing a dissertation on the philosophical foundations of intellectual property under the supervision of Liam Murphy, Jeremy Waldron, and Sam Scheffler. Her other scholarship has appeared or is forthcoming 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, 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, the indian classical dance form); books (absurd | meta | post-modern); art (surreal | conceptual | post-impressionist); mind-bending science fiction; mind-bending things in general; transcendental meditation; game nights; her butterscotch telecaster; and city life.