Anshuman
Sahoo

I am an early-career legal academic. My doctoral work at the Rajiv Gandhi School of Intellectual Property Law, IIT Kharagpur, examined technology market regulation, and my writing since then has stayed close to one question: what happens to individual choice in algorithmically mediated markets, and what competition law can do about it.

Law is the end goal of the research. Economics enters mostly as an explanatory extension for legal propositions; philosophy, mostly as a starting point for exploratory work. I try to read the legal system itself as a complex adaptive system, and to take political economy seriously when doctrine alone cannot explain why an institution behaves as it does. Much of the recent work turns on consumer autonomy and on what I call leverage point capture.

Alongside doctrinal and empirical scholarship, I experiment with action research in law and policy advocacy through the non-profit LaMCRESA, and with simulation-based, gamified approaches to legal learning through LawLabs and LexSkill.