Vandana Mahalwar is an Assistant Professor at the Campus Law Centre, Faculty of Law, University of Delhi. Prior to this, she was an Assistant Professor at the Indian Law Institute, New Delhi. She has been a Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellow in 2019-2020 at Duke Law School, USA, where she worked on access to knowledge under international copyright law. Her work examines the issues pertaining to access to knowledge, right of publicity, copyright, and trademark law. Her previous books include Character Merchandising: Protection under the IP Laws (Springer, 2024) and Copyright Law in the Digital World: Challenges and Opportunities (Springer, 2017).